Pride and arrogance are qualities that distinguish us from the Creator.

The fact is that there is no concept of “the Creator and His quality” in the spiritual world. This is how we perceive Him, for example when in inanimate, vegetative, or animate objects we see something additional and call it “soul” or “quality.” The Creator is a quality in and of itself.

In our world, any force of nature is underpinned by another nature: mechanical, electrical, and so on. But in the spiritual world, this is not the case. There a quality exists independently.

The Creator is simply the quality of bestowal, the quality of emanating outward to others. If this quality senses that there is something to fill for the benefit of another, it acts.

Our nature is the opposite; we try to receive something for ourselves. We cannot imagine a state where we give to someone purely for their benefit. We do not possess this ability; we are not created that way.

Even when we love someone and seemingly want to do something for them, it is actually because it brings us pleasure. We cannot act otherwise; we are simply created this way.

Therefore, pride, arrogance, and egoism are our nature, and there is nothing we can do about it. Consciously or subconsciously, we are always governed by them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/19, “Questions and Answers”

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