This is http://www.essayz.com/b0202111.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.} ========================================================== %COMPLEMENTARY KINDS PEOPLE INTOLERABLE SUSPICION+020211 %TRANSCEND SUBVERT DICHOTOMOUS ATTITUDES THINKING+020211 %LOGIC REASONING PEACEMAKERS DIPLOMATIC CIVILITY+020211 %CONFLICT RESOLUTION ROOTS INTEGRITY HEALTH CIVIL+020211 %RIGHTS PRIVACY INTIMACY HEALTHY SEXUALITY LOVERS 020211 Consider the columns of words which appear below. Complementary kinds of people are prone to be more tolerant of what words-on-the-left, or words-on-the-right point towards; and intolerant of that to which words on the other side point towards. Such complementary kinds of people often regard each other with suspicion, anxiety and distrust. Relatively few people transcend the above kinds of dichotomous: attitudes, thinking, logic reasoning and acting --- as peacemakers and truly diplomatic workers towards the resolution of root conflicts which undermine both personal and communal kinds of integrity, health and civility. DOUBT CONFIDENCE DOUBT CONVICTION DOUBT CERTAINTY UNCERTAINTY CERTAINTY HUMILITY ARROGANCE HUMILITY POWER PRIVATE PUBLIC PRIVATE UNIVERSAL LOCAL GLOBAL PROVINCIAL INTERNATIONAL FEW MANY FEW ALL SMALL LARGE LETTING-GO CONTROLLING LIBERATION DOMINATION SERVANT CONTROLLER SERVANT LORD/KING COMMON SOPHISTICATED SIMPLE COMPLEX SIMPLICITY COMPLEXITY UNDERSTANDABLE COMPLEX MYSTERIOUS PREDICTABLE SACRED PROFANE OBEY COMMAND What is important is often an OVERALL-PATTERN which is an essence of a WHOLE-WEB-OF-BEING; healthy/diseased, relaxed/dis-eased, well/sick, whole/fragmented, integrated/segregated, secure/defensive, vulnerable/pretentious, gracious/haughty, hospitable/antagonistic, civil/offensive, etc. We will do well to seek to discern the OVERALL-PATTERNS in our lives and in the lives of those nearest and dearest to us. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================