There are only in essence five things – the first is absolute truth, namely, that God desired out of love to give you the ability to become proud of yourself – the second is the mechanism, namely that he took a spark of himself (soul) and made it go into your body – now your body is like all animals, attracted to anything that will provide it with a high, and recoils from anything that provides it with a low – however in truth, the goal of life is neither, for if we wish to become proud of ourselves, what we need to do is goodness/kindness – now if we are high (as we empirically see) we stop caring (for all is lovely in our high…) and if we are low (depressed etc.) we have no motivation – so as all things made in the Divine way, we need to blend both a high (“WOW the world is about to enter into the messianic utopia!!”) and a low (“there is a lot of pain, suffering and evil”) – however this is not the end of the story for though now we are emotionally stable, we now must overcome fear – for if we are afraid, we always veer towards protection – we must know that S/He who walks with Go-d is protected – and finally we must overcome arrogance (for when we become proud (in other words, not proud of ourselves, but full of our superiority) we then become irrational – as we see in toddlers filled with a delusional self-arrogance (due to always getting their requests)
By zevi770 · February 26, 2017