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%GETTING KEYS KINGDOM GRAND HEAVEN PEARLY GATES SIN 030516
%ACROSS TRAIN TRACKS DOMINEERING PEOPLE GUARD IMAGE 030516
%VISIONS LOCKS HUMBLE ACCEPTANCE DIFFERENCES DEVILS 030516
%GRANDEUR WEALTH CONTROL ENTRANCE REJECTION KNOWING 030516
   %COOPERATIVE COLLABORATIVE LIVES LOVERS TOGETHER 030516
   %ARROGANCE SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS ABSOLUTE IGNORANCE 030516

     Domineering people who covet the keys to the "Kingdom
of  Heaven"   (and so try to get/control the "Keys To  The
Kingdom")  thereby,  for themselves,  conceive and  create
their  own  image of the kingdom of heaven ---  in  a  way
which   locks  them  (and other domineering   people  like
them) --- outside of the true kingdom of heaven.

     The   true   kingdom   of heaven is   open   to   all
humble  people who  recognize and accept as such the  open
doors of the kingdom ---  which have no lock;  and have no
appearances  of  grandeur,  wealth or ability  to  control
anybody's entrance or exit.

     Domineering people conceive "The Keys to the  Kingdom
of  Heaven"   to be their special knowledge of  what  each
person must believe, have, do, be, etc. ---  to qualify to
pass  the  guards who guard the "Grand Gates"   into  "The
Kingdom   of Heaven";   standing as the domineering people
do, just outside  of the "Grand and Pretentious Doors"  of
what they believe to be "The Kingdom of Heaven."

     What  domineering  people  have conceived to  be  the
"Grand and Pretentious Doors"  of the wonderful and Power-
Full "Kingdom" are just "across the tracks"  from the true
kingdom  of heaven which to them looks like  a  thoroughly
run-down-slum --- because those who live there are humble,
non-pretentious  and  share equitibly with each other  the
sweet   fruits   of  their  collaborative   works.     The
domineering  people are pretentiously guarding the  "Grand
Gates   of  The Kingdom of Heaven"  ---  have  never  been
inside  the true kingdom  of heaven ---   which is "across
the tracks"   from the  "Upscale-Neighborhood"    of  "The
Grand   Kingdom  of Heaven"   ---  which they have not yet
visited   in person.  They  have  only heard  questionable
stories about what is beyond the "Grand Gates".

     Domineering  people  believe that if people  are  NOT
sufficiently well-qualified, wealthy, powerful,  coercive,
violent,    in-control and self-confident ---  they cannot
get into  "The Kingdom of Heaven"  ---  which they  guard;
while clutching  onto  the keys which keep  them  out  ---
because  they refuse "to cross the tracks"  to  enter  the
open lock-less-doors on the "other side of the tracks."

     Domineering  people  contentiously  argue  with  each
other over which of them have the real-keys to the  "Grand
Kingdom  of  Heaven",  because they have  not  experienced
going  through   the  doors of the kingdom  of  heaven  to
experience  for  themselves  what is  inside  the  humble-
sanctuary  "across  the  tracks".     They  have  noticed,
however,    that  each domineering  person's  set of  keys
is  "different".   That knowledge makes them feel insecure
and ill-at-ease!

     The   guards  proudly finger their own  special  keys
which  they believe  will  qualify them to open and  enter
the  Grand Gates ---  after they are completely dead. They
refuse  to  cross  the tracks before they  die --- because
being   seen  "across   the  tracks"    would   mark  them
forever    as  disqualified  to  enter The  Grand  Kingdom
after  they   die.   They have themselves  experienced  no
proof of the nature of the  kingdom  of heaven,  but still
accept  "on   authority"  what  they have  been  told   by
earlier  domineering people like themselves ---  who  have
died and have NOT  COME BACK to   report   what   happened
to  them  after  they   died.

     Speculation  continues "just across the tracks"  from
the  real  kingdom of heaven where true people  take  good
care of each other  in  open and honest  relationships  of
love, dialogue, and the balanced sharing of what they have
experienced; and treasure as giving true meaning to  their
cooperative lives together.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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