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%MISTAKE SEEKING SALVATION STANDARDS ACCEPT FEARFUL 950921

     Our mistakes in  seeking  salvation is not due to any
imperfections in:

                 Arithmetic,
               Keeping score,
              Proper conformity,
             Improving standards,
             Applying standards,
             Choosing standards,
            Perfecting standards,
           Respecting distinctions,
          Recognizing distinctions.

     Rather than the above kinds of mistakes,  our mistake
is in believing that our salvation is something completely
different  than  what  it  is in truth,   and  in  seeking
salvation  for ourselves  apart  from  others.    We  seek
salvation  in:  separation,    distinction,    alienation,
exclusivity, rejection,    excommunication,   objectivity,
isolation, analysis, fragmentation, etc.

     We  fear  that if salvation is opposite  to  what  we
believe it to be, we will be losers yet, when salvation is
opposite to what we believe it to be, we can be winners if
we recognize the mistakes  we  have made in conceiving the
essence   of   salvation  to  conform   to   our   fearful
expectations.

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