One response to “The hardest, yet perhaps by far most important thing we can do is understand why we are desirous of the things we are, for the heart reveals not the why of its desires and the brain whitewashes them, so perhaps you are heading in a direction which if you thought about why you desire it, you would head in the exact opposite direction.”

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   Rabbi Wineberg

   January 15, 2012 at 3:39 pm

   The way to figure out your own brain is taught by the Baal Shem Tov – as our brain whitewashes our desires so we cannot decipher if they are good or bad, ask yourself the Baal Shem Tov teaches “if this would give me no pleasure how would I feel about ti?”

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