This is http://www.essayz.com/a9812291.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.} ========================================================== %BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS FRIENDSHIPS COMMUNITY+981229 %DIALOGUE LISTENING RESPONSIVE DIALOGUE HONESTY+981229 %TRUST RESPECT HOPE ASPIRATION COOPERATION SHARE 981229 Often in life the qualities of the friendships and relationships among cooperative peoples are as important than the particular goals and activities which they share. Goals and qualities of relationships are inter-dependent. Health goals and healthy relationships go together. Disintegrative goals and disintegrative relationships go together. 1. People cannot work together on achieving disintegrative goals --- without their relationships disintegrating. 2. When people's relationships are disintegrating--- they cannot cooperate with each other in fulfilling integrative goals. 3. People whose relationships are characterized by personal and communal integrity and integration are people whose goals pertain to developing personal and communal integrity. 4. People whose relationships are characterized by conflict, tension, con-tension, violence, coercion, fragmentation, and fragmentation --- are people whose goals are disintegrative. We may recognize the value of people's goals in terms of the value of people's relationships; and vice versa. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================