Let’s start where we ended the first chapter. We said that things could be great if we would only learn to use our egoism differently—to bond with others so as to form a single spiritual being. We even learned that there’s a means for it—the method of Kabbalah, devised for …
HANDLING DESIRES
Now that we know that desires generate progress, let’s see how we’ve handled them throughout history. For the most part, we’ve had two ways of manipulating desires: 1) Turning everything into habits, “taming” desires, or harnessing them into a daily routine, and 2) Diminishing and suppressing them. Most religions use …
IN A NUTSHELL
There are five levels to our desires, divided into three groups. The first group is animal desires (food, reproduction, and home); the second is human desires (money, honor, knowledge), and the third group is the spiritual desire (the “point in the heart”). As long as only the first two groups …