This is http://www.essayz.com/b0706020.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.} ========================================================== %TRUE LOVERS LEARN DISCERN MOST FULFILLING INTIMATE 070602 %SIMILAR EQUIVALENT COMPETITION EXCLUSIVE DESCRIBE 070602 %TOLERATE CREATIVE DIVERSE DIFFERENCES ACCEPT GIFTS 070602 %SANCTUARY DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE HARMONY LOVE GIVE 070602 True Lovers often learn/discern that their most fulfilling intimate relationships are similar to and/or equivalent to each other; rather than in competition with and/or mutually-exclusive of-each-other. True lovers learn how to describe their most fulfilling relationships as being similar to and/or equivalent to each other --- in unique mutually complementary and supportive ways. Neither Prescriptive- nor-Proscriptive Conformity to any external unilateral consideration plays any central role in their authentic relationships. Our most mutually-fulfilling healthy intimate relationships --- often involve: 1. Letting-Go of most of our Fearful/Alienative Defenses 2. Perceiving ourselves honestly within wider contexts. 3. Tolerating creative and diverse gracious differences. 4. Accepting-and-Including different people. 5. Building sanctuaries for differing people. 6. Learning how to help each other let-go --- in Shalom. 7. Being with each other in letting-go in harmony/love. 8. Graciously Defending true rights of different people. 9. Helping each other fulfill many Visions of Shalom. 10. Letting go of preoccupations with domination/violence 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) ==========================================================