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%TRUE LOVE DESCRIBE PRESCRIBE COMMAND LAW RULE LOVE 960930

     True  lovers admire each other's  personal  integrity
and  manner  of being true to themselves and  each  other.
They desire  to be together and to work  cooperatively  in
doing things together---and find pleasure thereby.    Each
is  competent  to  live their own life and  take  care  of
themselves---yet feels  fulfilled in cooperation  with the
other.

     True lovers are not primarily motivated and guided by
by: laws, rules, regulations, commandments, prescriptions,
proscriptions, prohibitions and taboos.    True lovers are
motivated  and guided by their desires to be in  open  and
honest dialogue with each other as integrative persons who
are contributing the the integrity of the community.

     Descriptions  of  how true lovers  live  their  lives
cannot  be transformed into helpful prescriptions  telling
other  how  they  should live their lives.    Writing  out
prescriptions in the manner of a  scribe does not make the
written prescriptions more authoritative and helpful  than
original open  and  honest  descriptions offered  by  true
lovers  based upon their own experiences and  perceptions.
Collecting such prescriptions together  in  books  of holy
scriptures does  not  create  thereby  anything  worthy of
worship, adoration and unquestioned obedience.

     Committees  and  legislatures cannot gather  together
selections  of  prescriptions  and  create  anything  more
authoritative  than  the  open  and  honest   descriptions
offered  by  true  lovers of  their  own  experiences  and
perceptions.   Consensus regarding the factors present  in
respectable lives is often reached  by finding  the  least
common  denominator  in the lives of  respectable  people.
Not all integrative lovers are respectable people---may of
them   get  crucified  because  of  their  creativity  and
honesty.   True lovers are the authorities on the ways  of
true love.  Abstractions and generalizations do not get to
the  heart of the matter any better than original open and
honest  descriptions offered by true lovers telling  about
their own experiences and perceptions.

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