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  %DISCERN UNDERSTAND PERCEIVE DISTINGUISH SEPARATE+960525
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     Many   human   problems  and  dilemmas   pertain   to
difficulties in clearly recognizing,  naming,  describing,
and   talking  about  the  differences   between   similar
realities.   For example,  tragedies can occur if we treat
gasoline  as if  it were water.    Similarly tragedies can
occur  if  we treat sick addictive people as if they  were
healthy.

     Some discernment difficulties are rooted in a lack of
familiarity.    We  may  mentally  lump  together  various
realities  which have one or more properties in  common---
and treat them all as if each  were like the most familiar
of them.

     Some discernment difficulties are rooted in a lack of
vocabulary.   We may mentally lump together realities  for
which  we have no unique names with which to point to them
separately.   A  lack of vocabulary can lead to a lack  of
differentiation.

     Some  discernment  difficulties  are  rooted  in  the
blocking  operation of collusions which entail the  denial
of  the presence of some realities.   Habitual  dishonest,
blindness and deafness often blocks discernment.

     Some  discernment  difficulties  are  rooted  in  the
blockage  of  communication  due to habitual  patterns  of
silence,  withdrawal,   passivity,   quietude,   and  non-
articulation---perhaps due to conflict-avoidance.

     Some discernment difficulties are rooted in an  over-
reaction  against excessive and destructive analysis.   If
we  withdraw  excessively from analysis we may  fall  into
confusion.

     We  need  to  seek  to find  an  appropriate  balance
between respecting integrities and discerning differences;
in order to  live  integrative  lives  with  integrity  in
integrative communities.

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