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People who are always inclined to give love and believe that they must help everyone fall into the other extreme of being constantly preoccupied with themselves and wrapped up in their own egos. When qualities manifest themselves, there are always two opposing forces at work.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Esoteric Lesson","site_heading":"Spiritual Dangers and the Balance of Inner Forces","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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