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...velation and Concealment .......................... 154 Transforming Egoism to Altruism ........................... 169 15. Gradual Spiritual Correcti... ...30. Fear of the Creator .................................... 378 31. A Seed of Altruism ................................... 383 32. Battling for the P... ...n comprehension to understand the essence of such spiritual qualities as total altruism and love. Even the existence of such feelings is beyond our co... ...atthetruepicture oftheworldwillberevealedtousonlywhenwereachastate of complete altruism. Only then will we see that the Creator rules over the world w... ...equal in our desires to remain a slave to our nature, and to become a slave to altruism. Only after we realize that there is no hope of our bodies eve... ...d have lost the opportunity to transcend our egoistic natures and rise to pure altruism. Ideally, we should only be interested in the pleasures derive... ... we will start acquiring higher knowledge. In order to replace our egoism with altruism, and our reasonwithfaith,wemusttrulyappreciatethegreatnessand ... ...t we cannot be guided by sensations of pleasure, since it is not pleasure, but altruism, that determines whether a spiritual life is beneficial or har... ...ce takes place with the aid of a screen (masach), which transforms egoism into altruism. We are incapable of understanding how such a miraculoustransf...
...In the words of Michael Laitman, "It is beyond human comprehension to understand the essence of such spiritual qualities as total altruism and love. This is for the simple reason that human beings cannot comprehend how such feelings can exist at all, as everyone seemingly requires an incentive to perform any act; without some personal gain, people are n...
...It is beyond human comprehension to understand the essence of such spiritual qualities as total altruism and love. Even the existence of such feelings is beyond our comprehension; we seem to require an incentive to perform any act that does not promise us some form of personal gain. That is why a quality such as altruis...
.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 14. Revelation and Concealment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Transforming Egoism to Altruism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 15. Gradual Spiritual Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 16. Inner Qualities and Outer Aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
...This paper traces the evolution of social housing design with an emphasis on the lost altruism that was initially central to Constructivist social housing....
... Indivisible (Gangsta) Indivisible (Firm) Indivisible (Diplomacy) Indivisible (Memory) Indivisible (First Love) SPACE Space (Prayer) Space (Altruism) Space (Visible Life) Space (Only If) Space (Language) Space (Property Of) Appendix: The Exhibit Ellipses Visible Life Gate The Spratly Membrane Page from Where We Stand Door Ajar that Oceans Are Apolog...
... ................................................................44 CHAPTER 3: ALTRUISM IS LIFE’S LAW ................................................... ...................................................... 115 SOCIETY’S APPROACH TO ALTRUISM ......................................................... 118 ... ...ature, we see that all living crea- tures are built to follow the principle of altruism, or car- ing for others. This is a fundamentally different pri... ...d begin to function in accord with the comprehensive law of Nature—the law of altruism. Every negative phenomenon in our lives, from the most specif... ...ing we will ex- perience, and the faster we will evolve. At the animate level, altruism is the law of exis- tence. But at the human level, we ourselve... ... society’s appreciation. Thus, we will gradually come to feel that expressing altruism, or unselfishness, toward others is a special and sublime val... ...s egoistic, it is quite prepared to advance toward following Nature’s law of altruism. Education and culture have always been es- tablished on altru... ... know the perfect method to satisfy the desire to enjoy, the ego. 51 3 ALTRUISM IS LIFE’S LAW When we research Nature, we discover the phenome... ...ALTRUISM IS LIFE’S LAW When we research Nature, we discover the phenomenon of altruism. The word, “altruism,” comes from the Latin word, alter, whic...
..............................................................30 THE NECESSITY OF ALTRUISM ................................................................. ...ss from Nature by choosing technology, we should have changed our ego- ism to altruism, and consequently to unity with Nature. In Kabbalah, the term ... ...become, the emptier we feel, and the worse is the crisis. THE NECESSIT Y OF ALTRUISM Originally, all people were internally connected. We felt and... ...fter all, we have already said that desire is the engine of change. Actually, altruism is not an option. It just seems as if we can choose whether t... ...her to be egoistic or altruistic. But if we examine Nature, we will find that altruism is the most fundamental law of nature. For example, each cell... ...ternal existence instead of our passing physical existence. Especially today, altruism has become essential for our survival. It has become evident ... ...on one another. This dependency produces a new and very precise definition of altruism: Any act or intention that comes from a need to connect huma... ...upted element in Nature. Simply put, when we correct ourselves from egoism to altruism, everything else will be corrected, as well—ecology, famine, ... ..., war, and soci- ety at large. ENHANCED PERCEPTION There is a special bonus to altruism. It may seem as if the only change will be putting others bef...
...e who have one desire in their hearts: to be like the Creator, united by altruism and love. The collapse of the Tower of Babel was not, how- - ever,... ... K abbalah for b eg Inners - p art o ne transform human egoism into altruism, and bond with the force of love—the Creator. In his article, “Pe... ...or b eg Inners - p art t wo Now we can see why Nature’s law is that of altruism and giving, not the law of receiving, even though the will to re... ...istic, and our world is, like us, egoistic. Because egoism is opposite to altruism, our world is detached from the system of the spiritual worlds. ... ...feel the lowest, but is also the key to our transformation from egoism to altruism. The m a King of Life In his “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” ... ...is both the most powerful, and the only one that can achieve the Creator (altruism). of course, things didn’t go quite as quickly as we just describ... ...uman nature, or egoism, is discovering how opposite it is from Nature, or altruism. This is why so many people feel distressed, depressed, insecure,... ...it is happening within us. The crisis is the titanic clash between good (altruism) and evil (egoism). How sad it is that we have to play the bad gu... ...’s humor plays a trick on us once more: The Creator is a desire to give, altruism. Although we are initially unaware of it, by want- - ing to be Cre...
... Since the property T H E PAT H O F K A B B A L A H 10 of the Upper Force is altruism, when one attains that quality and bonds with the Upper Force... ...verything is al- ways done for one purpose—to correct egoism and unite it with altruism. If an altruistic spark, a vessel that appeared there at the ... ...t with Him because we don’t know what the good inclination is, let alone pure altruism! From the perspective of the Creator, nothing ever changes; ev... ...Do not experiment with prophecies and such; simply work on the development of altruism with faith above reason. Prophecy is forbidden precisely beca... ... and the strength to choose between two forces freely: our own egoism and the altruism of the Creator. One must be able to choose one’s way independ... ...ust change our natural egoism, the engine that operates man, and invert it to altruism, thus equalizing with the Creator. PA RT O N E : T H E B E G ... ...e properties of the Creator, until finally egoism is completely replaced with altruism, and the attributes of our soul become identical to those of ... ... intention, and we should only try to help others change their properties to altruism. Anything that is against our desire makes us suffer. It is wr... ...t from the outside, we will immediately want to uproot it and replace it with altruism. C H A P T E R 2 . 9 S P I R I T UA L R E WA R D P eople want...
...esset Israel (The Assembly of Israel). Israel—the property of “bestowal,” altruism. This is the property of the Creator, the property of Bina. Israe... ...truistic desires with a screen that has transformed them from egoism into altruism. The human heart that receives all sensations is called the Kli (v... ...me relationship can exist between ZA and Malchut. Hesed—mercy, compassion, altruism, Ohr Hassadim (the Light of Mercy, compassion, and altruism). It ... ..., on the degree of one’s attainment (complete egoism = our world, partial altruism = spiritual worlds), we perceive the Creator or His Light differe... ... that Malchut—to the extent that her desires are corrected from egoism to altruism—asks ZA to receive the Light “for the Creator’s sake.” 47 THE RO... ... the Creator—bestowal without reception. This is the property of absolute altruism, of selfless bestowal. To receive such a property (desire) is tant... ...YOU”— if the sons of Israel return in their aspirations to the Creator (to altruism), called 83 WHO CREATED THESE “the return,” correct their deeds ... ...o give us an opportunity to correct our egoism, the Creator mixed it with altruism at the very creation of the spiritual degrees. This kind of mixin... ...e the properties of Bina, and convert her initial, primordial egoism into altruism, Malchut ascended to Partzuf Aba, became Malchut in Partzuf Aba i...
...is why the created being, after having performed a restriction, can accept with altruism a small portion of the Light, let’s say 20%, but it pushes a... ...e selfish part, tries to use for its own sake, fall into Malchut. At this time, altruism and selfishness are blended together. Now, if a strong Ligh... ... Ein Sof - which is nothing more than a purely selfish created being, devoid of altruism and in a state of restriction that it accepted on itself - ... ...uch a Partzuf will break into smaller particles. Further, the separate sparks of altruism and selfishness will combine, paving the way for the correc... ...ernal, perfect and are only restricted by the intervening of a person’s egoism. Altruism is a specific attribute, a means of correcting the Kli. Egoi...
...aten time and again but not knowing why. The principal law of that system is “altruism.” It acts whether we are aware of it or not, and we must foll... ...d you say that a person who is in the spiri- tual evaluates everything through altruism, since egoism has been cor- rected? A: Yes, to the extent that... ...elf (egoistic) in our world, while observing the laws of bestowal, of giving (altruism), of the Upper World, the spiritual Mitzvot? No, it is imposs... ...contradiction. On the one hand, spirituality is about loving your fellow man, altruism and bestowal. On the other hand, in order to develop in spiri... ...ove would be my only motivation to act. The Torah explains that a true act of altruism (love of man) is when one party does not know about the other...
...stance,’ said Helen, wondering if the irascible old lady’s request was a test of Helen’s personal altruism. ‘Good, then that is settled. Mahmoud Bin...
...ommand her presence. Maybe in this nebulousness of strong selfishness and altruism called a personal relationship, so immediate and personal like fin...
...“Dopaminergic Polymorphisms Associated with Self-Report Measures of Human Altruism: A Fresh Phenotype for the Dopamine D4 Receptor”, Molecular Psych...
...hers. Then begin to emerge in them the sparks of love for others, called “altruism,” which is the general attribute of goodness. And that, too, evol...
...nk that only humans could count, but it has been discovered that chimpanzees have arithmetical skills (Inoue S, 2007). Many social functions, such as altruism, understanding another person’s cognitive state, social cooperation, and cultural transmission, which were once thought to be human-specific, have recently been described in various forms in chimpanzees, bonobos and ...
...tual laws and trans- forming egoism, which separates us from the Creator, into altruism), we attain His thoughts and desires. We also reveal the secr... ...g of the Messiah (the force that pulls Creation out of egoism and leads it to altruism). Yet, this merely gives us an oppor- tunity for attainment, w... ...egins a correction period that continues until all egoism is transformed into altruism (the will to enjoy only for the sake of the Creator). In this... ...n. Egoism, inherent in them under the influence of the body, is destroyed and altruism, inherent in them by nature, is acquired. Even the souls of th... ...e “bodies.” It is the situation when egoism, inherent in the body, turns into altruism and the body becomes worthy of receiving all the delight that... ...goism was created only to exterminate it from the world and transform it into altruism. Suffering shows us how insignificant the body is to reveal i... ...69 ers and the Creator. When the soul enters the body, the desire is born for altruism, an aspiration for the Creator. The force of this aspiration ... ...ith all its defects. Then, the work to turn egoism in its corrupted form into altruism in the same degree starts anew. This way, we gain twofold: • ... ...nd of the second state, after the extermination of egoism, the acquisition of altruism, and the attainment of the soul’s highest spiritual level. In...
...grees a person accumulates additional egoism, corrects it and turns it to altruism and thus justifies the Creator. That is why a person is called ri... ...res, the evil in us, and cannot break free. If we were to become slaves to altruism, in order for it to control us the way egoism does today, meaning ... ...d for myself or for the Creator is the whole difference between egoism and altruism. Before a person detaches himself from ‘for me’, he cannot unders... ... in mercy”, he can elect his actions completely freely. And if he chooses altruism at this point, it is a decision of free will, and not in order to ... ... We encounter deformations in the understanding of the terms: humanism and altruism, on a daily basis. To be precise, a misunderstanding of the words...
...state as Surrounding Light, a force that corrects human nature from egoism to altruism. The Surrounding Light elevates the soul through all the worl... ...I I : T H E E S S E N C E O F T H E W I S D O M O F K A B B A L A H 100 ism to altruism. These languages are the language of the Bible, the language ... ...—the similarity of the creature to the Creator, i.e. inversion of egoism into altruism. The chief Kabbalah textbook at present is Baal HaSulam’s six... ... fore. As one discovers the oppositeness of the Upper Degree and its level of altruism, one must muster the strength to elevate to it. Hence, prior t... ...wal, The Will to Bestow, The Will to Please, The Upper Nature, The Nature of Altruism, The Spiri- tual Nature, The Attribute of Bina, The Giver, Th... ... The outcome of equalizing the form of the creature with that of the Creator. Altruism The corrected will to receive with the inten- tion to delight ...
...gree. What characterizes a higher degree is a greater desire to give and altruism. The range of spiritual degrees is also divided into five worlds... ...h The Future correspondingly. In that world, the bitter indicated truth, altruism, bestowal and greater closeness to the Creator. But after the sin... ...on, the passage from lo lishma, to lishma (for her name), from egoism to altruism, from the will to receive to the will to give. Question: But w... ...te it (from the right line), new strength comes to correct this egoism to altruism (middle line). This furthers the evolution. Any act that develops... ...had created one against the other. There cannot be one without the other; altruism is built on top of egoism. They must be of equal amount, and you ... ...al amount, and you must develop your egoism to the precise amount as your altruism. When you begin with Kabbalah, you begin with doubts, and they’re... ... has cleansed himself to such an extent that he turned it to bestowal, to altruism. It is something that no one can tell and hence we can never judg...