0 responses to “The bottom line of life is so simple, but we don’t realize it, for unlike the person observing a person, so you get an objective view, we are the person inside the person, so we have a distorted view – if someone does something they must have motive, there are really fundamentally, only four possibilities: the first is instant gratification (this includes food, sex, drugs, music, even intellectual pursuits, for there is nothing more gratifying to a smart person than an intelligent idea – this also includes the flip-side of instant gratification, staying away from instant pain, hence fear, which also includes fear of shame, which screws up a lot of people, for if you fear shame there is an entire world of 7,000,000,000 people to fear) the second is ego or more commonly known, as the desire for recognition, the third is our soul, goodness, compassion, sensitivity, kindness, and last but not least, and most disastrous though very common (though people are unaware they have it) jealousy – jealousy causes bullying, antisemitism, terrorism, it also is a reason many people desire money (not for the recognition of having money but for the jealous heart’s ability to seem superior to others – jealousy is not about achieving something, rather as in the case of the Arabs versus Israel, it is not that they want a state, which they have been offered, they don’t want the Jews to have a state, which they have categorically stated, as jealousy is the desire to cause another to feel as rotten as you do.)”