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     %SICK CONCEIVE SOULS HEART DEFECT UNREAL EXIST+940622
       %ALIENATED ISOLATED DISCONNECTED NATURAL SIN+940622
        %SELF FIX IMPROVE DEFECT CORRECT SELF OTHER+940622
       %HEALTH PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY RECOVERY 940622

     We  are sick when we conceive our souls,   heart  and
essential being to be defective or non-existent.

     We  are  sick  when  we conceive our  natures  to  be
alienated,  isolated,  and disconnected; i.e.,  that it is
natural to be alienated, isolated and disconnected.

     We are sick when we believe it is up to us to improve
our souls,  hearts and essential beings, so as to fix  our
defects and lack of essential existence.

     We  are  sick when we believe that it is up to us  to
correct in our being,  believing,  feeling,  desiring  and
doing---the defects in  souls, hearts and essential beings
which have been used  to justify our alienation, isolation
and disconnectedness.

     We  are  healthy  when  we  live  in  inter-connected
communities  as  essentially accepted souls,   hearts  and
beings---who  are conceived to have been created  in love,
with love, as essentially acceptable for connected living,
in love.

     We are healthy when we and others view our desires to
be  inter-connected---as normal,  natural and  in  keeping
with  God's creation of our souls,   hearts and  essential
nature of being.

     We  are  healthy when we see no need or  occasion for
trying to improve our souls, hearts or essential beings---
as steps to  fix  our  defects  and/or  lack  of essential
existence.

     We  are  healthy when we love and  live  together  in
inter-connected communities  where technologies  are means
of   cooperative   endeavors,   not   means   to   achieve
acceptability.

     We are sick when we take sickness  for  granted,  and
regard alienation as normal and natural.

     We  are sick when we do not feel it is appropriate to
describe  our pains,  fears and frustrations---because  we
regard them  as normal,  natural and how things should be;
beyond question, doubt and description.

     We  are sick when we do not feel free to be  open and
honest  with ourselves and each other because  we  believe
that our souls,  hearts and being are not what they should
be to be acceptable in any essential way; and  that  it is
our  responsibility to fix them so that we and others  can
properly accept them.

     We  are  sick when we are preoccupied with fixing the
essence of our being as  the way to become acceptable into
community;  and we regard that preoccupation as normal and
natural.

     We  are sick when we believe and act as though  there
is nothing about  a  person  which  was created  by God as
essentially good and acceptable.

     We  are  sick when we believe in original  sin  which
made all souls essentially unacceptable and  in their need
of being fixed because they are essentially prone to being
evil in non-conformal ways.

     We are  sick  when we believe souls  can properly  be
dammed because of non-conformal behaviors.

     We  are  sick  when  we do NOT  regard  personal  and
communal  integrity as normal and  natural realities which
are recognized,  named,  described and talked about freely
and without embarrassment.

     We are sick when we do not recognize,  name, describe
and talk about  personal  and communal integrity---because
to do so would be to expose our failures to have fixed the
essence of our beings; such  fixes   being  the prescribed
way  to  become  acceptable  into  a  community  in  which
acceptance  is  conditional  upon  success,   achievement,
conformity and being good in proper ways.

     It  is  important  to know when we are  sick  and  to
recognize why we are sick.  It is important  to do what we
can do to change our minds about what we want to seek  and
be.  It is important to then change our attitudes, ways of
thinking  and behaviors---as  well as we can---so that  we
can  be well together in  inter-connected  communities  of
being true to ourselves in love which is not in doubt.

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