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 %COMPULSIVE MOTIVATION GUIDE DRIVE TECHNIQUE 950227

     Often we feel that all that stands between us and our
fulfillment is our lack of resources and technology to get
or achieve what we want.  We take for granted that what we
want will be  good for us---and that the primary questions
of life have to do with getting what we want,  with issues
of resource and technology.

     Our tragedies often  flow from  our  blindness to how
shallow is our sense of what will lead us to  personal and
communal  integrity,  fulfillment and  satisfaction.    We
treat  our  fears and addictive  compulsions  as  reliable
guides.   We  pick up and carry other  people's compulsive
desires  and  addictions,   and  treat  them  as   jeweled
compasses; when they are really heavy burdens.   We do not
take  time to meditate upon what we are carrying, where we
are  headed  or  why.    When  we  do  not  quickly  reach
meaningful satisfaction---we go faster.   We run  when  we
might  walk,  take  airplanes  rather  than  boats,    and
communicate  by technology rather than by  truly  touching
each other.

     Many  of  our frustrations are rooted in our  shallow
understandings   of  our  needs,   desires,    fears   and
compulsions---for we have not taken time to consider  them
and talk about them openly and honestly.    We often value
and  treat as essential those things which cause us  great
pain. We cast off as unessential the secure foundations of
personal and communal integrity.  But we cannot learn from
the signs which point to  our tragic mistakes---because we
believe   that  all  that  stands  between  us   and   our
fulfillment is our lack of power, resources and technology
to get what we want.   We have taken for granted that what
we  want  will  be  good for  us---and  that  the  primary
questions  have  to  do with getting what we  want,   with
issues  of power,  resource and technology.     Given  our
assumptions  there cannot be any  tragedies;  there can be
only  the technical problems upon  which  we  compulsively
fixate with addictive passion and frustration.

     We  will  do  well  to  spend  more  time   carefully
considering the nature of our real needs,  desires,  fears
and  compulsions---and  to take time to  talk  about  them
openly and honestly so that we can deal with them  wisely,
rather than compulsively.

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