This is http://www.essayz.com/a9806011.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.} ========================================================== %DYSFUNCTIONAL ASSUMPTIONS ATTITUDES EMOTIONS THINK+980601 %DISINTEGRATIVE DISTINCTIONS EXCLUSIVE CLUBS GANGS+980601 %ACCEPTANCE INTOLERANCE IGNORANCE CONFUSION HONESTY+980601 %PREJUDICE ARROGANCE INFORMATION COLLUSION EVIL SIN+980601 %DECEPTION RIGHTEOUS PERSONAL RELATIONS COMMUNITIES 980601 There are some kinds/forms of assumptions, attitudes, emotions, thinking and expectations which lead to personal and communal integrity --- and other kinds/forms which lead to personal and communal disintegration. It is often exceedingly difficult to distinguish (in a timely way) between those which lead to integrity --- and those which lead to disintegration. What makes it difficult to distinguish (in a timely way) between the two contrasting kinds/forms? IGNORANCE CONFUSION DIS-HONESTY PREJUDICE ARROGANCE MIS-INFORMATION COLLUSIONS DECEPTION SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS Beware of people, communities, traditions, rituals, and practices which promote difficulties in distinguishing between what leads towards personal and communal integration on the one hand --- and whatever else leads towards disintegration on the other hand! Seek out and become familiar with those people, communities, traditions, rituals and practice which transcend such difficulties. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================