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   %PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY CONFLICT RESOLUTION 960203

     Personal  and communal integrity depend upon internal
patterns for the resolution of internal conflicts.

     In   the   absence  of  internal  patterns  for   the
resolution of  internal  conflicts---a person or community
is  torn  apart by internal conflicts which wage back  and
forth with sometimes one side on the ascendancy leading to
one kind of behavior; and other times  another side on the
ascendance leading to another kind of behavior.  Outsiders
cannot then depend upon any consistent pattern of behavior
and  perceive a lack of integrity.    There is a  lack  of
internalized   patterns  leading  to  the  resolution   of
internal conflicts.

     A  person  may have internalized  ideals  and  values
which lead to  them driving themselves  physically  beyond
the limits of their  physical body.    They  are likely to
disintegrate   physically  with   fatigue,    frustration,
depression and disease---and so be unreliable.

     A  person  may have internalized  ideals  and  values
which  are  in  conflict  with each  other  and  not  have
internalized   any  transcendent  ways  to  resolve   such
conflicts.    Such people are likely to be drive  on  some
occasions  by  some  ideals  and  values;   and  on  other
occasions  by conflicting ideals and  values.    Outsiders
will not be see such people as behaving in any predictable
way---as lacking  integrity because they lack internalized
conflict resolution skills.

     A  community may have internalized ideals and  values
which  lead the members of the community to be at war with
each  other.   Outsiders will not be able to rely upon the
community as  a whole to behave in  any  predictable  way;
because  it lacks the essential conflict resolution skills
which lead to communal integrity.

     Conflict  resolution  skills are  essential  to  both
personal and communal integrity.   People and  communities
which  are committed to conflicting ideals and  values  in
the absence of concern for personal and communal integrity
and/or in the absence of conflict resolution  skills---are
unlikely to enjoy personal or communal integrity.     They
are likely to disintegrate.

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