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Hi August2803,
According to VirtueScience the opposite of one imbalance is another imbalance.
For example a bath too hot has the opposite of a bath to cold.
The opposite of one extreme is another extreme.
The Middle Way has both qualities in balance and harmony.
For example: the opposite of cowardice is recklessness. The middle way regarding these extremes is bravery and caution as a simultaneous unity.
The opposite of hatred which is a kind of extreme repulsion is greed which is a kind of extreme attraction.
So real universal Love does not have an opposite. Only when aspects of it are temporarily repressed there seems to be a lack of various qualities.
In the example of bravery/caution: we all have these qualities within. However if the bravery becomes repressed then we fall into cowardice. If the caution becomes repressed we become reckless.
By loving and accepting both qualities we do not lack them and are thus free from the extremes.
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