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January 13, 2015 at 5:30 pm · Filed under Love, Quotes
Dr. Michael Laitman:
The Creator is fully the giver. He is the characteristic of bestowal and love. There is nothing more than this. There is only complete bestowal, complete love, absolute, pure, perfect, and infinite, and it is revealed in us to the same degree that we are ready to absorb it, to bring ourselves in line with it.
In general, I can understand and feel every characteristic only if it is found within me.
When I look at some cockroach, I don’t feel that it lacks something, that it loves its children and right now, is running to them with crumbs of food. I don’t share any characteristics with it to be able to feel it.
However, if I would begin to go deeper to penetrate and explore, ultimately, I would feel the needs of the beastly level. People are able to be sensitive to animals they are close to, including pet owners or scientists who devote themselves to research.
For example, in my childhood, I had a friend who always had small animals living in his pockets: here a mouse, there a bird. He even would come to school with them, and, much later, he went on to study zoology. So, he understood them. He would find a white mouse and pet it, and the mouse wouldn’t run away.
He would say, “You know, he is not afraid to approach you,” as if he was whispering to it.
However, we need to develop other feelings within us to be able to feel the Creator. If my friend recreated the feelings of the mouse within himself, so we need to give shape within us to a feeling of the Creator, bestowal and love.
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January 12, 2015 at 5:30 pm · Filed under Ego, Quotes
Ego = the desire to receive pleasure for one’s own personal benefit (at others’ expense)
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November 13, 2014 at 5:30 pm · Filed under Quotes
If you think that finding the love of fairytales will make you happy, think again. The love of fairytales isn’t really love, but the use of others for self satisfaction.
What we normally call love is the egoistic satisfaction of one person by another, whether it’s sexual satisfaction or any other kind of fulfillment we receive from another person. And clearly, this isn’t love.
Then what is love? Love is when you don’t pay any attention to yourself, but you take the desires of another person and try to fulfill them in exactly the way they would like. In other words, you turn yourself into a vessel of fulfillment for the other person. This is real love, and it exists only in the spiritual world. And there is no difference if it is a man or a woman – what’s important are the desires, the soul.
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June 11, 2014 at 7:30 pm · Filed under Quotes
1) When a certain thought about the meaning of life awakens in us, it’s a sign that the Creator has invited us to contact Him.
2) The only requirement for studying Kabbalah is a sincere desire to discover the meaning of life.
3) You shall see your world in your lifetime.
4) We think, feel and imagine what we feel close to, what we really want. This is our internal life.
5) Pain pushes us forward. Whether we feel depressed, empty or confused, all bad feelings appear in order to make us think about their purpose.
6) Happiness is achievable beyond our egoism, neither within the ego nor by suppressing the ego.
7) The visual arts are the most powerful means of influence. For this reason, a shift in our thinking must begin with what we see.
8) We can easily see that changing our attitude toward others will lead us to the resolution of the problems on the social-human degree. This will mean the end of war, the end of violence and terrorism, and the end of general animosity among people.
9) Changing one’s attitude from self concern to global concern affects the whole system positively and ensures its survival.
10) Our attitudes to society and life must go through a complete change. We will then discover that there’s an abundance of every resource in nature.
