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The spiritual leader who is always soft and sentimental may help some of his pupils but he would help them more if, at the same time, he were also hard and firm. The first attitude will attract more to him, but without the second to balance it neither he nor they will get the proper view of life.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 6 : Student-Teacher > # 489