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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9612012.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.} ========================================================== %SELF SACRIFICE EGOCENTRISM DEFENSES SELFRIGHTEOUS+961201 %IDOLATRY ADDICTION DECEPTION DISHONESTY EXCLUSIVE+961201 %PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY CLEAR THINKING LOGIC 961201 Often we are called to make sacrifices in order to transcend ourselves and help others. Often it is not clear what kinds of sacrifices it will be helpful to make; and people make sacrifices which it is not helpful to make---thinking that by doing so they can earn "points in heaven" against the "judgement day." Such sacrifices are motivated more by appeals to ego-centrism than by the promptings of true love. What can we helpfully sacrifice? EGO-CENTRISM DEFENSIVENESS NAIVETE IDOLATRY SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS ADDICTIONS EXCLUSIVITY JUDGEMENTALISM DECEPTIONS EXCOMMUNICATIONS CONDEMNATIONS ALIENATIONS What is it not helpful to sacrifice? PERSONAL INTEGRITY COMMUNAL INTEGRITY KNOWLEDGE PERSONAL HEALTH COMMUNAL HEALTH WISDOM HUMILITY TOLERANCE SENSITIVITY COMPASSION LISTENING CREATIVITY FLEXIBILITY CLARITY HONESTY If we sacrifice the latter and cling to the former we and our communities disintegrate---regardless of how many "points" we think we have earned for ourselves in the "heaven" of our personal fantasy-land. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================