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    %LEVELS KINDS FOCUS PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY 961101

     There  are  a variety of kinds,  foci and  levels  of
interest in personal and communal integrity:

     1.  Denial of  the  possibility  of any  existence of
personal  or communal integrity;  and so a refusal to deal
with such a reality.

     2.  Acceptance of the possibility of the existence of
personal  and communal integrity;  but denial that in fact
any such reality does in fact exist.

     3.  Acceptance  that  in fact  personal  or  communal
integrity does exist; but disinterest in being aware of or
interested  in  the  existence  of  personal  or  communal
integrity.

     4.  Begrudging awareness of the existence of personal
or communal integrity;  but with a persistent yearning not
to be confronted with such an existence.

     5.  Learning   to  recognize  the   desirability   of
personal   and   communal  integrity;    with   increasing
appreciation for all that they might mean.

     6.  Learning   to  seek  honesty  and  integrity   as
essential to personal and communal fulfillment.

     7.  Enjoying  the benefits of having become  familiar
with personal and communal integrity.

     8.  Being  aware  of  ways  in  which  to   undermine
personal and communal integrity  in order to advance one's
own cause---or to advance the cause of one's  own group or
dearest one(s).

     We  may be interested in other people as tools  which
we may use to advance our own interests, cause, program or
project.

     We may carefully avoid any interest in the  integrity
of  other  persons  and  communities---so  as  not  to  be
embarrassed by them.

     We  may be interested in understanding the  integrity
of other persons and communities---for various reasons:

     We may be interested in supporting and promoting  the
integrity of other persons and communities.

     We may be interested in undermining the integrity  of
other persons and communities.

     Our  own enjoyment of personal and communal integrity
depends  critically  upon  how  we  focus  our  attention,
efforts and resources  in regards to our own integrity and
the integrity of other people/communities.

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