Who Am I?

B״H

There is no person who is not a combination of a body and a soul.

You can see your body.
But you cannot see your soul.

However, the Creator of your soul sees it—
and He told us what it is.

The soul is, number one, a spark of G-d.
It carries the emotions of G-d—compassion, nobility, and infinite positive qualities.

This soul descends into the mind and the heart.

The heart has the capacity:

to innovate

to extricate

and to integrate


Extricate means to deduce information from an original point
to its full logical expansion in detail.

Integrate means to take an idea that the mind recognizes as true and valuable,
and to focus on it so intensely
that it becomes a desire.

And that desire becomes lodged in the heart.

The heart itself has two chambers:

The right side represents proper desires—
desires that are created and shaped by the mind

The left side represents instinctive desires—
desires that are purely biochemical,
like those of a cockroach


But unlike other approaches,
we do not seek to reject our natural desires.

A person who shuts themselves down
becomes like a robot.

The goal is not suppression—
the goal is awareness.

It is like a person making a fire to cook food:

If the fire is too strong, it burns

If it is too weak, it does not cook

The goal is a perfectly balanced flame


So too with desire.

The challenge is to be the kind of person
who can see their desires clearly
and then decide the correct intensity for each one.

Of course, sometimes desires arise that are negative—
such as revenge, laziness, and the like.

In those moments,
we must motivate ourselves from a deeper place:

From the soul’s infinite goodness.

Especially through a deep love and respect for G-d—
we choose to do what is right and G-dly.