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   %OWN EXPERIENCE HONEST ABSTRACTION PRINCIPLE LAW 960709

     If  we  do not own our own most significant  personal
experiences as our own, and take them  seriously---we  are
not being honest with ourselves or others.

     If  we  dismiss  our own  most  significant  personal
experiences  as not   being   important  in  relation   to
abstractions,   generalizations,    rules,    regulations,
prohibitions,  prescriptions and commandments which others
have laid upon us---we are not being honest with ourselves
or others.

     If  we do not openly and honestly name,  describe and
talk with others  about  our own most significant personal
experiences---we  are  not being honest with ourselves  or
others.

     If we  compulsively  focus our own and other people's
attention  upon  abstractions,   generalizations,   rules,
regulations, prohibitions, prescriptions and commandments;
to  the  exclusion of our own and their  most  significant
personal  experiences---we  are  not  being  honest   with
ourselves or others.

     If  we are not being honest with ourselves or  others
in any of  the  above ways---we  cannot  enjoy personal or
communal  integrity.   We will lose whatever integrity  we
have sooner,  rather than later.   We need to take care to
note how we focus our attention in relation to our own and
other people's most significant personal experiences.   If
we  do no do so,  we lose contact with each other and lose
contact with reality; we go crazy!

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