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    %WHO SELF OTHER HOW RESPOND STOREHOUSE MEMORIES+950312
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     In profound ways we become who we and others are---by
how  we and others respond together to the storehouses  of
memories  which  are  available  to us in  the  lights and
shadows  of  all that we have experienced and  remember---
whether individually or communally.

     What we choose to do,  or not do,  and what we choose
to  repress/suppress,  or not repress/suppress---leads  to
what  memories are available,  or not available,  to us in
our personal and communal storehouses of memories.

     If we  repress/suppress  memories---we are  left with
vague new memories of the repression/suppression; and with
memories  of distress in that repression/suppression.   We
are  then  likely  to be ill-at-ease and  so  dis-eased---
because   of  what         has  been  hidden   but   still
distresses us.

     If   our  memories  are  of  perpetually   unresolved
conflicts---we  are likely to be stressed,  distressed and
dis-eased.

     If  our memories are of manipulations,  coercion  and
violence---we are likely to be defensive and insecure;  no
matter  how sophisticated our defenses  and  technologies,
and  no  matter how great are the sacrifices  we  make  in
seeking  to  achieve  security for ourselves and for those
who  mean the most to us---at the expense of our perceived
and/or real enemies.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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