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The idea that "the truth lies between the extremes" would be the cliché it appears to be if it meant only the need for a mechanical compromise, a splitting of the difference. But the real truth lies not between but above the extremes. The great spiritual leaders of humankind -- a Buddha or a Jesus or a Gandhi or a St. Francis or a Dalai Lama -- are people who have integrated values that seem to be in tension into a form that is not just a compromise on a lowest common denominator. At their level of integration, one might be at once freer than the libertines and more disciplined than the straight-laced. One might be both a better warrior than the hawks and a better peacemaker than the doves.
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