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%FEAR FAILURE ACHIEVE EXPECTATION INTENTION CONFORM 950111

     Prudent  fear often motivates and guides use to avoid
dangers which we will do well to avoid.

     Imprudent  fear  often undermines  our  personal  and
communal   integrity;   injecting  destructive  fears   of
failure,   rejection  and  excommunication.    Such  fears
undermine  our  self confidence and self esteem which  are
essential to creative work.

     Imprudent   fears  rob  us  of  the  ability  to   be
creatively ready to  deal  with  unexpected  environmental
changes.    If  our fears have undermined our personal and
communal    integrity---how  can  we  hope  to  meet   the
inevitable  challenges  of changes in  our   astronomical,
planetary,  ecosystem,      international,       national,
community, organizational,  religious,  professional,  and
work-place environments.

     We  cannot control our environment.   We do have  the
ability to choose how  to respond to environmental changes
with  personal  and communal  integrity---if  we  are  not
paralyzed by imprudent fears.

     All   people,   efforts,   programs,    institutions,
organizations,   professions  and religions which  promote
alienative   fears  thereby  threaten  our  personal   and
communal  integrity---without  which there is  nothing  to
value, respect or cherish.

     In  the  absence of personal and  communal  integrity
there is nothing worth defending.

     If in our efforts to defend  that which we believe is
most worth defending  we undermine  personal  and communal
integrity---we   have   committed  personal  and  communal
suicide.

     We  will do well to be prudently fearful of all  that
threatens our personal and communal  integrity---including
our     most     cherished   and   worshipped:     ideals,
values,   principles,    rituals,   doctrines,    beliefs,
scriptures  and religious leaders.     None of them should
be  confused with the  creative   God of Love who  is  the
ground   of   our  being  true  to  ourselves  and    each
other---within    the  context of true  security   enjoyed
through the offering  and  acceptance  of  the freedom  to
be   safely vulnerable  when  being   honest   about   our
experiences, perceptions, beliefs, and emotions.

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