0 responses to “At the heart of reality is how we see it – the one thing we are really bad at understanding, is how we see ourselves – but as always, the Alter Rebbe makes it simple – everything we see, we either love or fear or we don’t care – as Yoda said: the path of the dark side, comes through fear – When a person fears, they also hate; so what’s so fundamental to understand is, what the Rebbe says, within us is an independent observer – this observer is the one making decisions – In other words, though we think we are who we think we are, really the very thoughts, are observations – So to be healthy, we obviously must love ourselves – though the problem with love is, that it excuses everything! hence Kabbalah’s teaching, we must both love ourselves, but contain an element of upsetness (for example, joy that the Moshiach is coming and is here! and misery that he isn’t fully revealed! – this balances, the blindness of love with the realistic reality – Hence a person who fears/hates himself will be depressed and possibly jealous of those who don’t, hence antisemitism, bullying etc.) while a person whom only loves himself will be like children, in a fantasy universe.)”