Question: How can you check how much you have advanced after a lesson?

Answer: The main thing is to clarify: What do I want—for my own sake or for the sake of bestowal? Do I have a connection with my friends in this? Do I need them or not? Do I work from my egoistic desire or from the intention to bestow, from the side of the Creator or the creation, above my egoism or within it? All advancement is based on such self-analysis.

It may be that after a good lesson, these clarifications reveal my bad state to me, but they will be more precise, and that means that I am advancing.

Every day should bring a simple result: tomorrow or by the next lesson, I must come with a more clarified desire.

It does not matter whether I have a desire or not; it is given from above. The question is whether this state becomes clearer.

It is possible that the clarification will lead me to a dead end where everything becomes unclear, as if shrouded in a fog. But this also means greater clarity and a more precise clarification.

The light that comes to me during the lesson provides me with discernments; it does not matter whether they are positive or negative. It allows me to make a more precise analysis in order to evaluate myself, my state in relation to the Creator and the goal in all directions.

The light affects the desire; when it illuminates the desire for me, I see more within it.

Even if I suddenly stop distinguishing anything in it at all, and I feel complete confusion and fog descends unlike anything I have ever experienced before, this is also called seeing more. These are also degrees of understanding.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/6/10, The Book of Zohar

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