This is http://www.essayz.com/b0705170.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.} ========================================================== %FORGET NEGLECT IGNORE MUTUAL COMPLEMENT VIRTUES 070517 %MODEST HUMILITY SIMPLICITY DIFFIDENCE BALANCE 070517 %UNPRETENTIOUS EQUILIBRIUM POISE PROPORTION REST 070517 %STASIS COUNTERPOISE BEING COMPLEMENT COMPLIMENT 070517 %INTEGRATIONS INTEGRITIES HOSPITALITY SHALOM LOVE 070517 It is human to like to be: admired, honored, respected, etc. It is natural to admire, respect and honor people who do good things; and so it is human to try to do good things in the hope of thereby being: admired, respected, honored, etc. It is natural to want more admiration, respect and honor. However, it is NOT NATURAL to go to extremes which lead to destructive: alienation, estrangement, rejections, exclusions, etc. It is good when there are modest amounts of admiration, respect and honors --- focused upon a person who does modest amounts of "good". It is NOT GOOD when there are excessive amounts of admiration, respect and honors --- focused upon any person who does excessive amounts of good in ways which demonstrate alienation due to excessive: activity, being- busy, being-predominant, being-dominant, concentrating- power, concentrating-wealth, concentrating-attention, etc. Each person can do only a limited amount of good. It is NOT GOOD to admire, respect and honor any one person in ways which lead other people who are worthy of admiration, respect and honor --- to be: ignored, not- noticed, forgotten, neglected, criticized, denigrated, etc. It is NOT GOOD to try to do so much good that one hoards the attention of others and thereby others get too little attention. Doing so much good is NOT GOOD. Too much good is NOT GOOD. Too much focus upon any one virtue is NOT GOOD. Too much attention given to any one person's exclusive virtues is NOT GOOD. Thus we all need to be modest in how much good we do. We all need to be modest in how much we admire, respect and/or honor any one "good" person. It is NOT GOOD to forget, neglect and/or ignore the Mutually-Complementary-Virtues of: modesty, humility, simplicity, diffidence, balance, unpretentiousness, equilibrium, poise, proportion, rest, stasis, counterpoise and being complementary in complimentary ways. Virtues-are-NOT-GOOD in excess relative to others. Virtues-are-NOT-GOOD in mutually-exclusive-ways. Questions about excess, balance, budgets, priorities, time-foci, money-foci, diets, attention, preoccupations, neglect, indifference, friends, family, sexuality, intimacy, powers, influence, wealth, health, etc. should range far-and-wide in healthy and unhealthy communities; leading to many open and honest discussions about what is being ignored, neglected, dominant, alienated, alienative, etc. ====================================================== Be Graciously-Together in the Many-Ways-of-Shalom. (c) 2007 by Paul A. Smith in "Search for Honesty and Integrity" (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================