A Person Is Above Desire
Question: The request to correct my repulsion from the friends seems very mechanical to me. Don’t I have to attain a need for correction?
Answer: If you wait for a need for correction, you will never attain it. It’s not the necessity that precedes our work, but the work that precedes the necessity. Then the necessity emerges.
If I work according to necessity, then I am an animal. If I work above the desire, then I am human.
From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/23/11, The Zohar
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