This is http://www.essayz.com/b0804271.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.} ========================================================== Click on WELCOME for a quick tour of essayz.com ========================================================== %CLARIFYING OUR CONFLICTS MINSUNDERSTANDINGS IGNORE 080427 %IGNORANCE PREJUDICE BIAS ADDICTION CODEPENDENCE 080427 %ALIENATIVE BEHAVIORS ESTRANGEMENT DOMINATION GREED 080427 %DOMINATION VIOLENCE VIOLATIONS INTEGRATIES AUTHORS 080427 %AUTHORITATIVE EXPERIENCES DESCRIPTIONS OPENNESS ID 080427 %HONESTY DIALOGUE LISTENING REVERENCE TRUE LOVERS 080427 To survive with personal-and-communal integrities we; all need to Work-Cooperatively clarifying in our: conflicts, misunderstandings, ignorance, prejudices, biases, addictions, codependencies; and our patterns of alienative behaviors, estrangements, dominations and violence. The above Cooperative-Work will entail Affirmations-and- Demonstrations of Essential-Safe-Virtues such as: reconciliation, hospitality, generosity, forgiveness, mutuality, balance, authenticity integrations, integrities, openness, honesty, dialogue, listening and reverence. It is not helpful for us to be COMPULSIVELY-PREOCCUPIED with: concentrations of power, wealth, luxuries, influence, controls and Alienative-Technologies-of- Domination; for Within-Such-PREOCCUPATIONS we cannot mitigate any vices --- no matter whether we are good, better, best, or ultimately superior in what we do and achieve. It is not helpful for us to be COMPULSIVELY-PREOCCUPIED with EITHER Making-Such-Concentrations or with ELIMINATING Such-Concentrations; or be COMPULSIVELY-PREOCCUPIED with people who are so COMPULSIVELY-PREOCCUPIED EITHER-WAY. There are more helpful ways to focus our attention, time, and energies! It is not helpful for any of us to be COMPULSIVELY PREOCCUPIED with : Contests, Conflicts, Winners, Losers, Controls, Defenses, Invulnerability or Risk-Avoidance --- for it is impossible for us to be Invulnerable-And-secure when we are Isolated-and-Alone in "High-Places" of Any- Special-Kind. Be-Together in the Many-Gracious Ways of Shalom. (c) 2008 by Paul A. Smith in "Search for Honesty and Integrity" (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy) ========================================================== Click on WELCOME for a quick tour of essayz.com ==========================================================