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The positive value of setting up an ideal to work for is not without its limitations and perils. If the saving fact of a sane balance is not also present, or if the time is opportune for a turning away from the Long to the Short Path, then the distance between the ideal and the actual becomes filled with tensions and conflicts, with the anxieties and frustrations bred from them.

-- Notebooks Category 23: Advanced Contemplation > Chapter 4 : The Changeover To the Short Path > # 141