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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9212121.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.} ========================================================== %CONFORM ACCEPT COMMUNITY REJECT BEHAVE EXPRESS+921212 %MYSTERY RELATE REFLEXIVE RELIGION RITUAL DOCTRINE+921212 %GOOD EVIL INTEGRITY SALVATION REDEMPTION PRAYER 921213 Truly spiritual persons know and acknowledge their limited powers and their experiences of mysterious relationships among themselves and others which point to powers which transcend themselves and others in ways which they cannot understand, predict, explain or control. Truly spiritual persons are NOT COMPULSIVELY PREOCCUPIED WITH: doctrinal statements, systems of beliefs, sets of rituals, conformal standards for acceptable behaviors, the formation and maintenance of exclusive communities, or with the exercise of authority of the power to be in control. Particular forms of prayer, worship, witness, evangelism, and salvation are NOT the foci of the interests or concerns of truly spiritual persons; even though they do engage in particular forms of prayer, worship, witness, and evangelism; and do acknowledge and tell others about their particular experiences of salvation. They do NOT try to generalize their particular forms and do NOT expect other people to adopt their particular forms as being of transcendent value to all peoples. They are fulfilled and content in open and honest conversations/dialogues which convert people through honest expressions of what they have experienced and know through personal participation in reflexive relationships which transcend themselves in ways which they cannot understand, predict, explain or control; and which they do NOT feel any need to understand, predict, explain, or control. Truly spiritual people may be participants in recognized religious groups, and may NOT be. Religious groups are NOT the primary focus of their interest and concern; for their interests and concerns transcend all religious groups, and relate to the lives of all peoples regardless of their association with or disassociation from religious: beliefs, rituals, practices, traditions, organizations, and informal groups. Truly spiritual people are NOT preoccupied with what thoughts, feelings, perceptions, beliefs, attitudes, and emotions are to be regarded as: permitted, proper, right, good, and acceptable; or NOT. They recognize that such preoccupations lead to collusive attempts to control people, to addictions, to disintegration, to violations of people's rights and integrity, and so to many forms of violence. Truly spiritual people are humble, but confident of what they know through their own experiences. They do NOT presume to know truths which are unrelated to their own experiences. They are secure in their knowledge of themselves and of each other; for they are true to themselves and to each other. They are NOT defensive of that which the do NOT know in relation to their own experiences. They witness honestly to what they do know in relation to their own experiences. Truly spiritual people are NOT compulsively preoccupied with any particular language, set of words, scriptures, prayers, rituals, organizations, doctrines or leaders: and they worship none of them. Truly spiritual people are NOT willing to sacrifice everything in the service of any particular language, set of words, scriptures, prayers, rituals, organization, doctrine or leader; for they worship none of them. Truly spiritual people are integrative people working to create secure communities by giving gifts of security freely to all members of their communities---people whose membership in their communities they never call into question or threatened. Truly spiritual people do not pretend to have superior knowledge of the difference between good and evil to serve as the basis for them making judgments and distinctions regarding good people and evil people. They recognize and acknowledge that presuming to have such knowledge is alienative and the source of much estrangement, and so the source of the disintegration of persons and communities. Truly spiritual people do not fight, oppose, block, restrict or stand in the way of people who are often regarded by many as evil people. They recognize that such behaviors entail participation in that which most characterizes the people who are often regarded by many as evil people. Such behaviors do not bear sweet fruit and do not merit respect. Such behaviors lead to personal and communal disintegration. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================