Belvedere International Training Center – February 13, 1974
If you are not able to connect those two elements with yourself at the center, you will not have carried out your mission.
Through the central figure, or central point, two other elements are to be connected. The leader of any group must put himself in the center with two elements — one ahead of him and one in the rear — to be connected through him. You are in the center; the purpose is ahead of you, and what you have acquired is behind you.
The mission of a governor is this: the governor is in the center; the population of the state is behind him; and the whole nation is ahead of him. Isn’t that true? The central figure, which is responsible for many under him, must be able to carry out the mission as the central figure. He must qualify by connecting the two elements.
In other words, the responsible person is never in a position to think of himself alone. If you do think centered on yourself… can you ever dream of carrying out this kind of great mission? No. It is safe for you to deny yourself, thinking of the other two elements, to be connected. Suppose you are the central leader, but you are also head of a family with your own family under you.