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 %PERCEPTION ATTITUDE ASSUMPTION BELIEF EMOTION JOY 940620

    Perceptions,    attitudes,    assumptions,    beliefs,
emotions, visions,  and joys are realities which cannot be
helpfully contained, communicated,  managed, or controlled
through the  exclusive  use of verbal  tools such as words
spoken   and/or  written   within:   rules,   regulations,
doctrines, instructions, laws, judgments or condemnations.

    The  extensive use of verbal tools is one of the  most
distinguishing characteristics of humans.  Insecure people
who  wish to defend themselves against the recognition and
acknowledgement  of their oneness with  "lower  creatures"
often  refuse to acknowledge the limited powers of  verbal
tools.

    Many tragedies flow from  refusing  to acknowledge the
limitations of verbal tools as indicated above and below.

    When   people   dishonestly   seek  to   fulfill   the
possibilities which they perceive only through the filters
of  their  attitudes,   assumptions,  beliefs,   emotions,
visions and joys---they  confuse themselves and others  as
they  try to contain,   communicate,   manage and  control
much through the exclusive use of verbal tools.  They thus
generate alienation which blocks, undermines and represses
open    and   honest   communication,    perception    and
understanding---and so fulfill tragic possibilities rather
than integrative possibilities.

    Verbal  tools  can be used most helpfully only  within
secure  contexts  where  all people have  been  exchanging
truly free gifts of the freedom to be safely vulnerable---
because liberating    communications,    perceptions   and
understandings    depend   upon   the   freedom   of   the
recipients, as much as upon the powers of the manipulators
of verbal tools.   In the absence of true freedoms for all
members of our community, our verbal tools cannot be fully
and helpfully used in integrative ways.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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