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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9803011.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.} ========================================================== %BEING PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY COMMITMENT TRUE 980301 To truly enjoy personal and communal integrity we need to be truly committed to the encouragement of personal and communal integrity. We need to seek to influence developments in personal and communal integrity --- but not seek to be in control of outcomes of our influence. If we seek to be in control of outcomes of our influence --- we are bound to become manipulative, coercive, violent and alienative; and so to undermine both personal and communal integrity. Personal and communal integrity are not the fruits of engineering plans and management programs designed to bring to fruition such engineering plans. We cannot control people in ways which will insure that they will be honest, authentic, transparent, responsive and loving. By being true to ourselves and each other we may elicit authentic, transparent, and loving responses which are not under our control --- even though they may be influenced --- by our being true to ourselves and each other. To enjoy both personal and communal integrity we must let go of our inclination to be in control of the outcomes of our efforts to influence people's: ideals, values, principles, thoughts, feelings and behaviors. We need to beware of thinking that letting go of dispositions to be in control --- entails letting go of any interest in what other people's ideals, values, principles, thoughts, feelings and behaviors may be. Personal and communal integrity are not promoted by: apathy, indifference, lethargy, insensitivity, detachment, hopelessness, depression, or their like. Seeking refuge in the latter---because we cannot be in control --- is no way to find refuge from our disappointment. To enjoy both personal and communal integrity we need to deal honestly with our natures and our possibilities; and not try to pretend that we are other than we are; or that our possibilities are other than they are. Games of mutual self deception are not successful--- no matter how many people play the games, and no matter how powerful are the people who play the games. The more successfully we play games of mutual self deception, the less competent we are to deal with the major threats to our personal and communal integrities; e.g., dishonesty. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================