The Middle Way. Balance

«Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves,» Christ said to his disciples.

He had the ability to think dialectically. The wisdom of the serpent and the innocence of the dove can only come together in a person whose soul is filled with love.

For others, simplicity and gentleness will seem like a form of weakness and submission. And firmness and hardness will serve as examples to follow.

God is in the middle, while the devil is in the extremes, the ancients used to say.

It is impossible to follow the middle way without love.

For a pagan, life is a constant shift from one extreme to another. For him, the material and the spiritual are irreconcilable opposites.

Such a person can only be spiritual in poverty. He can only be strong with wealth and power.

When the soul functions poorly, the material and spiritual become opposites. A person either falls into jealousy or pride.

Recently, during a seminar, a woman gave me a remarkable note.

Her father had tried to start a business but failed. Then she decided to try her hand at it, abandoning everything and devoting herself entirely to the new venture.

Suddenly, without any apparent reason, her father began to feel unwell. Tests were done, and to her amazement, she found out that he had severe diabetes—his pancreas had completely stopped producing insulin.

The daughter intuitively felt that this might be connected to her activities. She decided to attend the seminar and ask me this question in writing.

When I tried to see what was happening on the subtle plane, I understood the situation.

In the past, the father could not accept life's blows. He regretted the past, was often dissatisfied with himself, and could not forgive injustice and betrayal.

The collapse of his plans and hopes caused a great protest in his soul; he was utterly unable to accept the loss of his future.

As a result, his dependence on spiritual aspects became too great.

Running a business requires intuition, willpower, and management skills, and naturally, his attempt to start and grow a business ended in failure.

His dependence on spiritual aspects grew sharply, and his pride reached a fatal level.

Subconsciously, his defense mechanism activated—without realizing it, he chose the worst possible solution. Eventually, all his efforts failed.

Then his daughter took over the business, and in her subconscious, dependence on spirituality reached a critical level.

To save the daughter, the father's subconscious sought balance by going to the opposite extreme: pride turned into jealousy, also at a deadly level. But instead of death, an incurable disease—diabetes—appeared.

«And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold,» — Christ spoke this phrase about two thousand years ago.

When the soul is drained of love, a strong family and interesting, intense work can become an unaffordable luxury.

The current collapse of families, along with the growing unwillingness to work, is an involuntary testimony to the poverty of our souls today.

The end of the world is approaching. Then there will be new light, a new world, and new consciousness. People will be wise as serpents and gentle as doves.

The law of negation of negation describes the mechanism of development. For the new to appear, life in the old state must become impossible.

For the grain to sprout, it must die, as the founder of new thinking said. For the new to be born, the old must die.

The more our souls are open to love and faith, the easier and less painful the birth of new thinking will be.

I have no doubt that love and faith will come. We can only strive and hope.

S.N. Lazarev, «The Man of the Future. Parenting Parents (Answers to Questions)»