This is http://www.essayz.com/a9811271.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.} ========================================================== %POWERFUL PREOCCUPATION ISSUE CONTROL BALANCED EVIL+981127 %MUTUAL PERSONAL RELATIONS PERSONAL INTEGRITY SIN+981127 %CRUCIFY CHRIST JESUS CROSS SAVIOR POOR RICH POWER 981127 Powerful people who are preoccupied with issues of control cannot with integrity participate in personal relationships with poorer/weaker people within relationships which are: healthy, balanced, mutual, open, honest, and integrative. This is so because: 1. To maintain their positions of superior power they cannot tolerate letting the poorer/weaker people exercise as much power and influence over the relationships as they the richer/stronger participants do. Their relationships must be controlled by the richer/stronger participants. 2. Preoccupied powerful/richer people are bound to be participants in collusive games of mutual self deception. They cannot let the poorer/weaker people become aware of their collusive games --- and so they cannot be involved in relationships which are balanced, mutual, open, honest and integrative. Their collusive games must be protected at all costs; including the cost of further deterioration of personal and communal integrity. 3. Preoccupied powerful/richer people are bound to regard as taboo all honest and/or balanced relationships between powerful/richer people and weaker/poorer people. Any leader who seeks to promote love, reconciliation, cooperation, sharing, fellowship, respect, and intimate relationships between people who are powerful/richer and people who are weaker/poorer---is bound to be vilified and crucified in order to maintain the power relationships which have been traditionally respected by powerful/richer people. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================