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      %COMMITMENT CLING LET GO DETACH ADDICTION FIX 960510

     Often people find it difficult to recognize and admit
that  they are committed to and cling to ideals and values
which are disintegrative.   They take great pride in their
commitments and how faithfully they seek to fulfill  their
commitments---even  though  it  is  their  commitments  to
disintegrative ideals and values which lead them into evil
relationships    of   coercion,    violence, estrangement,
alienation, and ignorance.

     Just   because  we  and  others  are  proud  of   our
commitments and how faithful we are to our  commitments---
does  not  guarantee that our commitments and service will
lead to the enjoyment of personal and communal  integrity.
We  can  blind  ourselves  and  each  other  to  how   our
commitments  to and faithfulness to disintegrative  ideals
and   values  lead  us  and  others  into   disintegrative
relationships, activities and judgments.

     Often we need to learn that we need to let go of what
we  cling to;  to detach from ideals and values which  are
not  good for us or those nearest and dearest to us.    We
need  to  empty  ourselves  of  such  preoccupations   and
fixations which mislead us.   If we do not do so we become
blinder  and  deafer to all the evidence  which  indicates
that our disintegrative ideals and values are not good for
anybody---no matter how proud we are of them.

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