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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9004031.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.} ========================================================== %KEY SELF OTHER SALVATION ADDICTION CODEPENDENCE 900403 If we regard our salvation as depending upon our taking care of ourself without balanced regard for others, we die in meaningless ways in our estrangement and isolation. If we regard our salvation as depending upon our saving others when they do not take care of themselves in balanced ways and do not have balance regard for others; then we die in the prisons of our codependent relationships with dishonest addicts and their violent manipulations. If we regard our salvation as depending upon our affirmation of conventional beliefs and our participation in conventional rituals without regard for personal and communal integrity; then we lose our personal and communal integrity in the consequences of our being out of touch with our personal and other people's personal experiences. If we regard our salvation as depending primarily upon what we individually believe and do, then we isolate ourselves from each other in our individualistic efforts to save ourselves from each other; and die in meaningless ways in our estrangement and isolation. If we regard our salvation as depending primarily upon maintaining communal law and order and making sure that every member of the community does what is proper and what is not embarrassing; then we die in meaningless conventional lives which are devoid of intimacy, affection, creativity, spontaneity and authenticity. We may enjoy personal and communal integrity when we accept ourselves and each other as we are, and enter into open and honest dialogue about our experiences as we are, in efforts to become integrated in balanced ways with love, power and justice for all. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================