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%COMMUNAL INTEGRITIES INTEGRATION COHERENT PRESENCE 040328

     Within  every intimate meeting we as individuals  and
as groups of different numbers of people ---

     within diverse occasions of greeting, meeting, being-
together,   being-in-dialogue,  being-cooperative,   being
contentious,    being    collaborators   and   confronting
dilemmas ---

     are  confronted by ESSENTIALLY THE SAME QUESTION  and
VISION in many different forms ---

     as  diverse-questions  and as diverse-visions-of-the-
resolution/integration of-the-same ESSENTIAL-REALITY:

     What-can-we-do  separately-individually AND what-can-
we-do together-communally to:

     most helpfully/effectively facilitate-and-promote

     BOTH our-individual-integrities

     AND  our-communal-integrities

     within-our-infinities-of-combinations-and-

     permutations-of-being-together

     in-in-non-exclusive-ways of:

     alliances,   balancing,  cooperating,  collaborating,
complementing and collecting as civil-people in civilized-
communities:

     desiring,    dreaming,    doubting,    demonstrating,
eliciting, fellowshipping and formulating:

     generosity,  hospitality,  honesty,  humility, honor,
inclusivity,   joy,   kindness,  love,   modesty,   needs,
openness,   patience,  priorities,   questions,  requests,
responses,  solicitations,  tenderness,   unity,  visions,
worship, x=unknowns, yearnings, and zones-of-privacy.


     We need to recognize how the same essential question-
about  and  vision-of  personal/communal  integrities  and
integrations ---

     comes around  again   and  again  to  haunt  us   and
motivate/guide  us  into  facilitative/helpful  action-in-
being-together as True-Lovers within Love.

     1.  Hanging on  "for  good"   does  nobody any "good"
especially when  what we are "hanging-on-to"  is/are "our"
possessions; or what we have unilaterally  defined/labeled
as "good".

     In  similar ways it does nobody and real  "good"   to
CLING IN AN EXCLUSIVE/NARROWING WAY TO:

     2.  A FEW ideas, ideals, values, principles,  images,
rituals,  traditions,  scriptures,  scripts, texts, roles,
works,  etc.  ---  TO-THE-EXCLUSION-OF many  complementary
realities  which play central roles  in  the lives of well
integrated/healthy  people  and  communities  that  affirm
rainbows-of-possibilities in  ways  which  build  upon the
many essential foundations for  both personal and communal
integrities and integrations.

     3.  MANY   ways  of  concentrating  powers,   wealth,
privileges, possessions,  respect,  honor and reverence in
exclusive ways --- at the expense of vulnerable people who
are poor, thirsty, hungry,  homeless, confused, and living
in  polluted  environments  created  by  the  wealthy  and
powerful.

     4.  MANY prescriptions, proscriptions,  commandments,
laws,  taboos,  and judicial systems which regularly lead,
guide  and  motivate  people  to  behave  in  ways   which
facilitate   and  promote  EVIL   and   MUTUALLY-EXCLUSIVE
RELATIONSHIPS between and among mis-guided people.

     5.  MANY  technologies  by which to presume  to  know
which individual/isolated persons,   things,  ideal-forms,
formalities,   and  ways of con-forming are  "essentially-
good",   and which are  "essentially-evil"   ---   tacitly
affirming  that such  individual and/or isolated  persons,
things, ideal-forms,  formalities, and ways of con-forming
can  be meaningfully labeled as either  "essentially-good"
or  "essentially-evil"   in  the  absence  of   meaningful
attention  being  given to what  kinds  of  inter-personal
RELATIONSHIPS are good and/or evil.

     6.  Know  the  ULTIMATE and/or ABSOLUTE TRUTH in  the
absence  of  meaningful  attention  being  given  to  MANY
individual  and  communal experiences  that  are  mutually
complementary  in  how they point to MANY elements/aspects
of how TRUTHFUL-PEOPLE   share  their  own experiences and
processes of discernment of the many existing personal and
communal integrities and integrations around them.

     7.  Ancient authorities, authoritative-scriptures and
authoritative-texts ---   to the exclusion of attending to
the   AUTHORITATIVE-EXPERIENCES  honestly   described   by
authentic   people   who  are  present  in  current   well
integrated   personal  relationships;   and who openly and
honestly  share their experiences with each  other  within
the  context  of  liberating sanctuaries  built  by  True-
Lovers.

     Our  central-dilemma  is that what we truly  need  is
what  most threatens our mis-leading visions of being able
to always HOLD-ON-TO  and CLING-TO whatever it  is that we
falsely-think   will    GUARANTEE   our:  invulnerability,
security,  salvation, freedom,  liberty  and happiness ---
regardless  of  what other people think,   need,   desire,
hope-for and yearn-for.

     Healthy  relationships evolve in healthy ways only to
the extent that all participants keep "tuned-in" to all of
the other participants'  visions, dreams,  hopes,  desires
and   inclinations  regarding  the  evolution   of   their
relationships;   and  respond graciously to them with  due
consideration.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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