Just as a lens, depending on its color, colors everything – similarly, if you are filled with ego you think you deserve everything! and as you don’t get everything, you become angered; and from anger you feel that someone as great as you shouldn’t be miserable while the plebes have joy… – this create jealousy – jealousy creates maliciousness, hence the bully, terrorism, antisemitism etc. which of course obama was and supported) then there is the humble state – As you don’t think you are anything of great value, hence you value others… – hence you seek their welfare – their joy is yours and their pain is likewise – but interestingly both states are not fully functional, for humility can also tend towards passivity – hence as Kabbalah – perhaps the primary teaching, teaches – "you must be one hundred percent arrogant about the Divine side in you – the side that calls you to do what’s right – and one hundred percent repulsed by the selfish / arrogant side in you" (the side that calls you to serve self and / hence aggrandize)