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%INTEGRITY RELATIONSHIPS PERSONS COMMUNITIES IDEALS+950408
  %VALUES GOALS TECHNOLOGIES MEANS ENDS ASPIRATIONS 950408

     The integrity of persons and their communities depend
critically upon the integrity of their RELATIONSHIPS.

     If  the  personal RELATIONSHIPS of  people  within  a
community  lack  integrity---the people and the  community
lack integrity.

     If  the  personal  RELATIONSHIPS of people  within  a
community are not open,  honest,  responsive,   accepting,
nurturing, supportive, encouraging, creative, renewing and
growing---the community and its members lack integrity.

     In  a  technocratic/analytic  community  there  is  a
tendency to focus only upon elements of wholes;  and to be
blind  to  the  integrities  of  wholes,   and  so  to  be
indifferent to whether or not people and their communities
enjoy   integrity  or  undermine  personal  and   communal
integrity.

     It is impossible to be genuinely interested in wholes
without being genuinely interested in the integrity of the
contextual RELATIONSHIPS which play essential roles in the
whole being what the whole is.

     Honest  communication,   dialogue,  talk,   intimacy,
friendship and love play essential roles in the whole of a
community  being  what  the  whole of  the  community  is.
Whenever  honesty is compromised, the whole  is threatened
with  disintegration.   Honest RELATIONSHIPS are essential
to the whole being what the whole is.

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