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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9610111.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.} ========================================================== %RESPOND DISINTEGRATIVE ATTITUDE BELIEF IDEAL VALUE 961011 How can we best respond to other people's disintegrative attitudes, beliefs, ideals, values and behaviors? If we respond with fear which blinds us and others--- we will compound the problems and dilemmas which we fear; making matters worse. If we fear that other people's behaviors will disintegrate our souls---we thereby empower them to control our behaviors in disintegrative ways. By so empowering them we disintegrate our own souls. The health of our souls depends upon what we do, not upon what others do. If we focus our fear upon how others many manipulate each other's perceptions of our appearances---we thereby surrender our ability to be true to ourselves and to each other. Our own disintegration flows from what we do; not from what others do to each other's perceptions of us. If we are preoccupied with appearances which can be manipulated by others---we have no time left to be true to ourselves and each other, and so have not time to shed revealing lights upon the nature of other people's manipulations of the truth. Other people's manipulations of the truth lose their power when we shed revealing light upon their disintegrative natures. In such light manipulative people's impotence is revealed and our fear may be mitigated. We should fear that our responses to what other people do will be disintegrative. There is more danger in the possibility that our responses will be disintegrative, than in the possibility that other people's behaviors will unilaterally rob us of our integrative powers. If our responses to other people's disintegrative behaviors diminish our own abilities to be true to ourselves and each other; then we have done greater damage to ourselves than they have. If we buy other people's preoccupations with appearances---using our souls as payment---then we have nothing left with which to deal with disintegrative threats to our personal and communal integrity. We are likely then to be fools then who blame others for our own disintegration. Our disintegrative responses to other people's collusive behaviors are far more dangerous to us than are their behaviors apart from our responses. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================