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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9010271.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.} ========================================================== %CHANGE APPEARANCE HEART BELIEF GOD IDOL HABIT SELF 901027 When our life is not satisfying/satisfactory we need to make some changes; yet too often we tend to try to get by with making the most superficial changes which we can think of, rather than seeking to make the profound changes which need to be made. In our effort to make minimal changes we may seek to get b with getting other people to make the changes which we think that they need to make to make our life satisfying/satisfactory. We may regard our problems to be due to other people letting us down. We may reject the possibility of us making any change at all. The change we make is thus to change how we attempt to get other people to change; we may change our tactics of manipulation and control, a change in our technology of personal "relationships". Such a strategy usually does not bring about satisfying/satisfactory patterns of living. In our effort to make minimal changes we may seek to change our appearances only. We may change our: cosmetics, hair-do, cloths, superficial behaviors, trite conversations. Such changes are designed to make it appear to others that we have changed, while avoiding making any real change within our selves. We may succeed in deceiving our selves and others; yet without making any basic change in our self we do not change the fact that our lives are not satisfying/satisfactory. In our effort to make minimal changes we may seek to change our technologies and techniques only. We may retain almost all our beliefs, convictions, principles, rules, regulations, laws, goals, etc. We may change only the details of our technologies and the techniques by which we seek to achieve all that we believe to be good. We may change the brand of medicine, the make of auto, the denomination of church, the school, the residence place, the work-place, the political party, the drug of choice, the eating place, the form of addiction, the particular idol, the place/time of worship, etc. Yet through all such changes we may carefully avoid making any significant change inside our self regarding our most fundamental attitudes, assumptions, beliefs, convictions, language, habits, thoughts, friends, idolatry, addictions, etc. All such changes may be intentionally superficial to avoid the discomfort and pain of making any real change. When our lives are not satisfactory/satisfying it is difficult to see upon what basis to make real fundamental changes in our selves. We cannot see how we can make real fundamental changes in ourselves and still maintain personal and communal integrity. Our concepts, language, and habits of mind and heart do not permit us to perceive real alternatives which are different from what we are accustomed to. None of our systematic/formal ways permit us the flexibility which we need. We are imprisoned by that which we most value, and we need to recognize that our dissatisfactions are rooted in the ways in which what we most value misleads us. What are we to do? We need to observe others who are living satisfactory/satisfying lives and see what they most value. We might learn what we need from their example of how to live satisfactory/satisfying lives. They may point the way to alternatives which we have so far excluded from consideration. We need to consider alternatives which we have so far not considered, and others who are leading satisfactory/satisfying lives may be able to help us to recognize the appropriate alternatives which we need to consider. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================