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 %PEACE SERENITY TRANQUILITY QUIET CONFLICT RESOLVE+950120
  %RESPONSIBILITY DUTY RIGHT FIXATION IMPERFECT SIN+950120
   %CONTROL DISHONEST COLLUSIVE GAME DECEPTION EVIL+950120
%KNOWLEDGE GOOD EVIL TRANSCEND LIMIT EXCLUSIVE IDEA 950120

     Our  peace,  serenity and tranquility are  undermined
by:

     1.  Believing  that  we have a responsibility,   duty
and/or  right  to  initiate or engage in efforts  to  fix,
finesse or conceal what we perceive to be imperfections.

     2.  Believing that we should not be at peace,  serene
or tranquil while there are others around us who are not.

     3.  Believing  that if we were to behave properly  we
could be in control of situations which disturb us.

     4.  Believing  that  the  sources  of  our  distress,
conflict  and agitation usually lie outside of   us---when
in  reality  they  often  they lie in  our  own  dishonest
collusive games of mutual self deception.

     5.  Presuming to transcend our God-given  limits  and
limitations.

     6.  Presuming  to  know with certainty what  God  has
ordained  to be beyond our reach in the fruit of the  Tree
of  Knowledge  of  the Difference between  Good  and  Evil
people.

     7.  Assuming     that    technological     knowledge,
understanding    and   fixes   of   great   power   and/or
sophistication---are   the   effective  means  to   peace,
serenity and tranquility.

     8.  Refusing    to   honestly   seek   the   mutually
satisfactory  resolution  of conflicts  among  our  ideas,
ideals,   values,  family members,  friends,   associates,
communities, nations, etc.

     9.  Being willing to sacrifice personal and  communal
honesty   and integrity---as the price which must be  paid
to achieve  or get some thing or advantage which we   want
or feel that we need or must have.

     10.  Priding  ourselves on how respectably  exclusive
we are in regards to associating ourselves with unfamiliar
and/or  threatening ideas,  ideals,  values,   associates,
communities, nations, etc.

The above play major roles in undermining our peace,
serenity and tranquility.   There are other considerations
which may merit consideration in some situations.

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