If everything was okay, then I wouldn't need to roll my eyes from left-to-right, line after line, to fulfill whatever need I need to fulfill, no matter how small or big.

This is the 2nd part of a 4-part article "All as One: A New Level of Confidence and Power"

What’s Wrong?

Now, the reason you are still reading this is because you also have the question, “What’s wrong?” If you didn’t think anything was wrong, you wouldn’t be reading this now. If everything was just fine, then I wouldn’t need to roll my eyes from left-to-right, line after line, to fulfill whatever need I need to fulfill, no matter how small or great.

Having a need, a lack, a want—a desire—is already a sign that “something’s wrong.” Something’s not complete, and I now need to do some kind of action in order to make it right, to fulfill this need.

So is my desire bad? After all, I didn’t choose it. I didn’t choose to be born, to go to school, to have to earn a living and to do countless amounts of actions that my desires dictate to me everyday. Desire is pushing me to do these things. Desire is pushing me to do everything!

I don’t do something unless I want or need to do it. And so, if I didn’t have this need to do something, would I be pushed to do anything? Would I even exist?

My Life

Since desires are what push me to live, they can’t be bad in themselves. They are my whole life! They are what give me life—the substance, the matter I’m made of. I don’t have to change them, and I don’t have to suppress them. On the contrary, I have to learn how to use them to receive the maximum—a pleasure and fulfillment that doesn’t fade away, but on the contrary, that constantly increases.

All of our desires in this world—for food, sex, family, money, honor, respect, power and knowledge—fade away. We are like puppets on strings of desire, being shown one desire, and going for it…and then being shown another one, and going for it. We keep going for new desires’ fulfillments because none of our desires are ever completed; the point of contact with the fulfillment of the desire empties it, extinguishes it, and another one appears in its place.

All of our desires are completely self-aimed. They are all based on “I want to feel good!” Essentially, everything we do is out of wanting to feel good, and moreover, we relate to everything around us out of wanting to feel good from it.

Discovering the Cause of the Crisis

This attitude, that I always only use my desires for my own sake, is the only problem with the world. This is the cause of the crisis.

I don’t just want to be rich, I want to be richer than all these people. I don’t just want respect, I want these people to respect me. I am ready to work for this. I am even willing to humiliate whoever I need to humiliate just to make myself feel important. By putting him down, I feel better about myself. I don’t just want to give a gift, I want the one who’s receiving it to know that I am the one giving it to him. And even if I give it to him anonymously, then I like to secretly think to myself how good it is of me to do such a good thing.

I only want to exploit others to make myself feel good, and this attitude that I have is opposite to the way the rest of nature works.

All as One: A New Level of Confidence and Power

Part 1: The Human(ity) Body and Crisis

Part 2: What's Wrong? Discovering the Cause of the Crisis

Part 3: Opposition Between Me and Nature and Humanity's Common Ground

Part 4: The Emerging Need for Oneness and Purpose and the Wisdom of Kabbalah

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• Kabbalah.info - concepts in this article are based upon the fundamental principles of Kabbalah as taught at the Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Education and Research Institute: www.kabbalah.info