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 %SICK DISEASE SOUL HEART SPIRIT MIND BODY SIN BORN+940725
   %SEX ALIEN ISOLATE FIX DEFECT FAIL BEING JUSTIFY+940725
                        %HEALTHY ACCEPT REJECT LOVE 940725

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

     We  are  sick  when  we conceive  our  nature  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---through our being, believing,  feeling, desiring
and doing---the defects in our souls, hearts and essential
beings  which  have been used to justify  our  alienation,
isolation and disconnectedness.

                  HOWEVER:

     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 own souls,  hearts  or  essential
beings  as  steps  to  fix  our  defects  and/or  lack  of
essential  existence---as  work  to  be  done  to   become
acceptable beings.

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

                   HOWEVER:

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

     We are sick when we do not feel free to describe  our
pains, fears and frustrations---because we regard them  as
normal, natural and how things should be; beyond question,
doubt and description for "poor folks like us."

     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 beings are not what they should
be to be acceptable in any essential way; and  that  it is
our responsibility to fix  them  for ourselves and/or  for
each other.

     We  are  sick when we are preoccupied with fixing the
essence  of our beings as  the way to become acceptable in
the 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 (who was created by God) as good
and acceptable, essentially without a good soul.

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

     We  are sick when we believe souls are dammed by  God
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 conform  and
fix 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 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 in love that is not in doubt.

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