Ego = the Desire to Receive Pleasure for One’s Own Personal Benefit [Kabbalah Quote]
Ego = the desire to receive pleasure for one’s own personal benefit (at others’ expense)
November 26, 2024
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How to Navigate through the Financial Crisis
An important quote in the wisdom of Kabbalah states:
Two people were in a boat, and one of them took a drill and began to drill a hole beneath himself. His companion said to him: Why are you doing this? He replied: What concern is it of yours? Am I not drilling under myself? The other replied: But you will flood the boat for us both, and we will both sink. (Kabbalist Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, Midrash Raba, Leviticus 4:6)
In the global boat we all share, whoever thinks he can drill a hole under his or her own seat and ignore the well being of others is gravely mistaken. If one person drowns, everyone drowns right along with him.
Why is it so important for us to understand this? It is because we live in a new reality, a reality where we all depend on one another, for better or for worse. From now on, we have no choice but to work together, as one big family. Only then will we be able to navigate our global ship through this winter of our hardship toward the haven of bounty and prosperity.
Nature Develops Us by Giving Us a Feeling of Lack of Fulfillment [Kabbalah Quote]
Nature develops us by giving us a feeling of lack of fulfillment in the present state & the possibility of fulfillment in the next state.
How to Develop New Type of Public Relations
Today’s type of public relations needs new people who feel life in the property of bestowal upon others & not in reception from others.
Dr. Michael Laitman: We don’t know what bestowal is because our nature is a desire to receive. But with the help of particular activities, it’s possible to awaken the desire to bestow within us, which is found in us but hidden. For this, I must connect with the group and follow the advice of the Kabbalists, meaning, people who have already gone along this way successfully.
Love is When You Don’t Pay Any Attention to Yourself [Kabbalah Quote]
Love is when you don’t pay any attention to yourself, you take the desires of another person and try to fulfill them in exactly the way they would like.
