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"You must take the middle ground. Fear and hope have their own attractions, but they both have grave liabilities. The man or woman of Knowledge does not indulge themselves in either but takes the middle ground so that they can see clearly. They find the balancing point within themselves. They stand over the fulcrum of balance, and they look, and they discern."<ref name=pgc7">''Preparing for the Greater Community'', Chapter 7: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/preparing-for-the-greater-community/great-challenge-become-aware The Great Challenge Awaiting Humanity]</ref>
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"Look around you. You will see that people are vacillating between unbounded enthusiasm and complete anxiety. They go from one extreme to the other. They do not know how to find the middle ground.
 
  
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From a position of fear, optimism looks wonderfully liberating, so you go there. 'Everything is going to be fine. Everything works out fine. We can deal with this. God is in charge. I can relax. It’s not as bad as I think. In fact, it is all wonderful.' And you live there for a while and you find out, 'Well, that does not really match my experience of reality at all,' and so you sink back into anxiety and apprehension.
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"You must look beyond the hopes and fears of the human family. You must look beyond the prescriptions for unbridled success or complete downfall that many people [predict]. In all of the different forecasts in between these two extreme perceptions, you must look beyond yourself first into the Greater Community."<ref name=pgc7"/><!--brackets are in the original as edited by MVS-->
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You must find the middle ground. This is where clarity is achieved. This is where balance exists. It is not running from one set of emotions or expectations to another. It is finding the middle ground. This is following The Way of Knowledge, for Knowledge is not captivated by promises of hope and prosperity and happiness. And Knowledge is not captivated by the dark [draw] of fear or the attractions of anxiety."<ref>''Preparing for the Greater Community'', Chapter 7: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/preparing-for-the-greater-community/great-challenge-become-aware The Great Challenge Awaiting Humanity]</ref><blockquote>
 
  
 
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*''Preparing for the Greater Community'', Chapter 7: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/preparing-for-the-greater-community/great-challenge-become-aware The Great Challenge Awaiting Humanity]
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Latest revision as of 01:19, 17 August 2020

"You must take the middle ground. Fear and hope have their own attractions, but they both have grave liabilities. The man or woman of Knowledge does not indulge themselves in either but takes the middle ground so that they can see clearly. They find the balancing point within themselves. They stand over the fulcrum of balance, and they look, and they discern."[1]

"You must look beyond the hopes and fears of the human family. You must look beyond the prescriptions for unbridled success or complete downfall that many people [predict]. In all of the different forecasts in between these two extreme perceptions, you must look beyond yourself first into the Greater Community."[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Preparing for the Greater Community, Chapter 7: The Great Challenge Awaiting Humanity

See also

Love and fear

Further study

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