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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8911051.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.} ========================================================== %FULFILL EXPECTATION KNOWLEDGE DESIRE IDEAL VALUE 891105 If we live our lives in terms the fulfillment of expectations, we need to know the expectations; be they our own expectations of ourselves, or be they others' expectations of us. If we try to live our lives in terms of expectations, and have poor knowledge of the expectations; we are bound to live confused and probably poor lives. If we try to live our lives in terms of expectations, and have well defined knowledge of precise expectations; we are bound to live our lives in the prisons of those well defined expectations, and in the prison of the guilt and shame we experience due to our failures to fulfill such expectations. If we try to live our lives in terms of expectations, and have reliable knowledge of ambiguous/changing expectations; we are bound to live lives of frustration and uncertainty, because the essence of our being is defined by ambiguity without roots. Expectations may be our own or the expectations of other people; either way we may become victims of inappropriate expectations. Too often expectations coerce people who seek to live their lives in terms of expectations which are experienced as demands made upon them to achieve goals which are defined without regard for their own unique being. Such people are not free to fulfill their own unique potential to be creative people with personal integrity which is expressive of their special abilities, interests, desires and hopes. Expectations which coerce from outside the being of a person cannot engender personal integrity. Personal integrity grows through the honest expression of the unique potentials and desires which flow from a person being themselves in ways which show respect for other people seeking to be themselves in honest ways; and so shows respect for and promotes communal integrity without coercive expectations. We need to be careful about what we expect of each other and of ourselves. The form and manner of our expectations can be coercive and destructive, if we expect anything of ourselves and each other which is other than personal integrity and the authenticity which flows from within our individual beings. By seeking to be authentically ourselves, rather than by seeking to fulfill expectations, we can fulfill with integrity much more than might reasonably be expected. We cannot fulfill with integrity that much, if we expect it coercively of ourselves or each other. Through the power of Love which does not coercively expect much of us, much becomes possible, because in Love we are free to be ourselves with personal integrity within the context of a community of integrity. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================