As the Kabbalah teaches: there are three sources which can/do control us
By zevi770 · October 31, 2013
The first is what we think is right and wrong to do
The second is simply our emotions – what gives us pleasure, we are attracted to, and what we fear, we retract from!
The third, as we are humans (for animals work on the simple love / fear paradigm) is unfortunately ego – We are attracted to recognition and we retract from shame, and most disconcertingly, when our ego gets slighted, it then desires to take revenge; and furthermore when our ego gets slighted, we also get jealous of those whose self-esteem is intact, hence the bizarre phenomena of illogical hate: anti-Semitism, currently anti-Americans, bullying…