This is http://www.essayz.com/a9607121.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %DRIVEN SENSE JUSTIFICATION PRIDE SELF ESTEEM 960712 We are driven and guided by our sense of what will lead to us being justifiably proud of ourselves; having self-confidence and self esteem in which we are secure. We may be inner directed or outer directed in this sense. We want to feel good about ourselves in terms of inner criteria and/or in terms of what other people think about us and how they feel about us. We may not feel good about ourselves and seek ways to deal with the fact that we do not feel good about ourselves. We may be driven by our sense of what will lead us to being satisfied with how we have dealt with our not feeling good about ourselves. We may be driven and guided by what we feel and think others feel and think in regards to us. We may be driven and guided by ideals, values and principles which are not directly tied to particular other people whom we have known or do know personally. We may have been deeply influenced by reading the texts of people whom we have never met---but we have internalized the ideals, values and principles which their texts have led us to internalize for one reason or another. Our sense of what will lead to us being justifiably proud of ourselves may in fact lead us into personal and communal disintegration; or it may lead us towards personal and communal integration. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================