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 %GRACIOUS HELPFUL FOCUS FOCI INTEGRATION QUESTIONS 030529
  %CONCEPTS HUMANE RELATIONSHIPS COMMUNITIES VALUES 030529
  %PRINCIPLES PATTERNS CIVILITY SHARING HOSPITALITY 030529
 %POSSESSIONS ACHIEVEMENTS ORDER CONTROLS REVERENCE 030529
%INVULNERABILITY SECURITY TECHNOLOGY MANAGERS DEVIL 030529
%GOODS SERVICES ROBUST ENDURING ENDEARING SUSTAINED 030529

     In what gracious ways can we most helpfully and  with
the most integrity FOCUS OUR ATTENTION?

     Upon  what questions,  concepts and ideals should  WE
FOCUS OUR ATTENTION:

     1.  Humane relationships?
     2.  Humane communities and dialogue?
     3.  Humane values, principles and guidelines?
     4.  Humane civility, sharing & hospitality?
     5.  Humane security found through vulnerability?

                            OR

     1.  Ideal achievements and possessions?
     2.  Ideal forms of order and controls?
     3.  Ideal technologies and managers?
     4.  Ideal collections of goods and services?
     5.  Ideal security achieved through invulnerability?

     What are the most liberating and integrative:

     1.  Concepts, visions, dreams, hopes and desires?
     2.  Kinds of relationships and communities?
     3.  Ideals, goals and revelations?
     4.  Foci, virtues and questions?
     5.  Stories, parables, myths and cosmologies?

     What are the most misleading and disintegrative:

     1.  Concepts, visions, dreams, hopes and desires?
     2.  Kinds of relationships and communities?
     3.  Ideals, goals and revelations?
     4.  Foci, virtues and questions?
     5.  Stories, parables, myths and cosmologies?

     What kinds of people, relationships and communities:

     1.  Most merit our reverence and awe?
     2.  Best point the way to wonderful integrations?
     3.  Are most robust, enduring and endearing?
     4.  Are most sustainable and sustaining long-term?
     5.  Best promote mutual understanding/cooperation?

     What kinds of people, relationships and communities:

     1.  Least merit our reverence and awe?
     2.  Illustrate tragic disintegrations/destruction?
     3.  Are least robust, enduring and endearing?
     4.  Are least sustainable and sustaining, long-term?
     5.  Fail to promote mutual understanding/cooperation?

     What   foci   are  most/least  likely   to   promote,
facilitate and draw us toward:

     1.  Open, honest and integrative relationships?
     2.  Personal, spiritual and communal health?
     3.  Mutual understanding/cooperation?
     4.  Justice,mercy and humility?
     5.  The transcendence of our forms of alienation?

     What  roles shall we allow the following to  play  in
our lives together:

     1.  Greed and selfishness?
     2.  Narcissism?
     3.  Ego-centricity and defensiveness?
     4.  Arrogance and self-righteousness?
     5.  Ignorance, confusion, prejudice & dishonesty?
     6.  Domination, coercion and violence?
     7.  Corrupting concentrations of power?
     8.  Exclusivity and excommunications?
     9.  Extremism and terrorism?
    10.  Bullies?

     What  roles should we invite the following to play in
our lives together:

     1.  Reconciliation?
     2.  Forgiveness?
     3.  True-conflict-resolution?
     4.  Peacemaking; i.e., preparing/planning for peace?
     5.  Taking risks to promote trust and respect?
     6.  Studying the many forms of humane integrity?
     7.  Studying the many kinds of humane languages?
     8.  Studying/describing reliable natural laws?
     9.  Studying/describing reliable reflexive laws?
    10.  Learning about our ultimate human limitations?

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