This is http://www.essayz.com/a9811073.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.} ========================================================== %PREOCCUPATION SELF JUSTIFICATION RIGHTEOUS EVILS+981107 %ALIENATION ESTRANGE LACK OPEN HONEST DIALOGUE FAIL 981107 When we are preoccupied with self-justification, self-righteousness, and issues of control---we then cannot perceive clearly other people's needs and issues over which they are in conflict. Then we cannot make creative contributions to the resolution of conflicts in WIN-WIN ways. We are counter-productive when we are preoccupied with self-justification, self-righteousness and issues of control. To be people and communities of integrity we need to let go of such preoccupations. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================