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%OWN WORST ENEMIES RELATIONSHIPS INTIMACIES SEX 041224 %NOT SEPARATED ALIENATED ESTRANGED ISOLATED OTHERS 041224 %COMPLEMENTARY COOPERATIVE COLLABORATIVE FRIENDS 041224 %CONTENTIOUS POLARIZED DICHOTOMIZE DESTRUCTIVE ID 041224 %INTEGRITIES PERSONAL COMMUNAL ROLE MODELS COMMAND 041224 %DEMANDS CONFORMITY LOYAL OPPOSITION NUCLEAR WARS 041224 Our own worst enemies are our own worst relationships; intimately associated with us, not separated from us, and impossible to separate from us. Our best friends are those wise, profound, and prudent peacemakers who help us to heal our own worst relationships. True peace-makers encourage and facilitate reconciliation, open and honest dialogue, cooperation and collaboration; to truly resolve our internalized conflicts among our highest ideals and values. Our worst conflicts are among our highest complementary ideals, values and truths; worshipped in isolation as idols, each regarded as absolute by alienated enemies. We cannot heal our worst relationships by accentuating our: separations, alienations, arrogance, hubris, excommunications, rejections, polarizations, dichotomies, exclusivities, attacks, terrorism and unilateral ways of behaving. We need to keep the above in mind as we watch religious/political leaders seeking to concentrate power and wealth with their dominant friends at the expense of powerless children of God who is a True-Lover whom we need to imitate as true peacemakers. Beware of polarizers. Beware of contentious people. Beware of arrogance. Beware of empire builders. Beware of power/wealth concentrations. Work to heal your own worst relationships. Shalom! (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================