This is http://www.essayz.com/a9802191.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.} ========================================================== %DISCERN NATURE CONFLICT BETWEEN THREAT OR-ELSE+980219 %PEACE MAKING SHALOM VIOLENCE DISINTEGRATION SIN+980219 %EVIL RELATIONSHIPS BALANCE SELF OTHER DOUBLE BINDS+980219 %ESCAPE PRISONS ALIENATION REJECTION EXCLUSIVITY 980219 We are relatively ineffective in conflict-resolution efforts and peace-making efforts so long as we do NOT discern: 1. The nature of conflict in all of its forms. 2. The identities of the elements in conflict. 3. The overt/covert threats which are made. 4. The "logic" of the elements in conflict. 5. How conflict engenders disintegration. 6. Different perceptions of the conflicts. 7. Transcendent perceptions of the conflict. 8. Conflicting elements within our selves. 9. How to resolve conflicts within our selves. 10. Our duty to resolve conflict within our selves. 11. Connections between internal/external conflicts. 12. Alternatives to continued endless conflicts. 13. Alternatives to either/or thinking/feeling. 14. True grounds for security and hope in Love. 15. The nature of True/Honest Love. 16. Conflict-resolution <=> Peace-making-essence. 17. The nature of the threats to our integrities. 18. Personal/Communal Integrity-interdependence. 19. How to learn from mistakes made in life/love. 20. The importance of open/honest dialogue. 21. The hazards of threats/alienation. 22. The futility of focusing upon issues of control. 23. The integrative possibilities of being in Love. 24. The disintegrative hazards of being alienated. 25. The centrality of personal relationships. 26. The derivative nature of individual persons. 27. The limits of legalistic/judgmental ways. 28. The importance of acceptance into dialogue. 29. The futility of rejection into alienation. 30. The multitude of forms of death and decay. 31. The origins of chaos and life-giving order. 32. The importance of humility and balance. 33. The futility of arrogance and exclusivity. 34. What is essential in forms of human salvation. 35. What is central in forms of human damnation. 36. Equivalent forms of each affirmation of Love. 37. The interdependence of Love's many affirmations. 38. The futility of denying Love's affirmations. 39. The futility of denying other's affirmations. 40. The essence of all forms of evil relationships. 41. The futility of the knowledge of good and evil. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================