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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9501192.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.} ========================================================== %TRUE HONEST EXPERIENCE PERCEPTION DOCTRINE THEORY+950119 %SELF OTHERS COMMITMENT DOCTRINE RITUAL BELIEF+950119 %PARADIGM THEORIES INTERPRET SELECT CHOOSE DECIDE+950119 %DILEMMA TRAGIC 950119 Often we are confronted with the dilemma of whether to be true to ourselves and others about our own experiences and perceptions---or to be faithful to our commitments to our doctrines, rituals and communal beliefs; our ultimate paradigms and theories in terms of which we interpret our experiences and perceptions. If we repress our awareness of our experiences and perceptions in order to cling to and be faithful to our doctrines, rituals and communal beliefs---to protect our ultimate paradigms and theories; we lack integrity and disintegrate through our collusive games of mutual self deception. If we let go too willingly of our doctrines, rituals and communal beliefs, and so do not function in terms of any coherent paradigm with its theories---we get tossed to and fro by the particularities of our day-to-day lives. It is not simple to maintain a balance between our convictions in terms of which to interpret our experiences and perceptions, and being true to self and others about experiences and perceptions which truly call into question the beliefs and convictions---to which we may cling because of our sense of insecurity in the face of changes which we do not understand. Balance cannot be maintained without maintaining a keen sense of how easy it is to slip into the behavior patterns which are characteristic of addictions and collusive games of mutual self deception. It helps to be in dialogue with people who are operating within the framework of differing patterns of beliefs, convictions and paradigms---in efforts to transcend the particularities of each person's outlook, perspectives, attitudes, prejudices and biases. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================