Question: How can you trust the feelings and desires that live in an egoistic world, in an egoistic body? How can you find out the truthfulness of emerging desires and feelings?

Answer: There is no truth in our desires. All feelings and thoughts are selfish.

Therefore, we must only engage in attracting the upper light, which will gradually reveal the depravity of every feeling and every thought, and to this extent, we will be able to correct them. A person cannot, even according to his egoistic nature, keep within himself what is harmful to him.

Question: What is the connection between desire, thought, and reason?

Answer: The basis of our nature is desire (the heart). Thought (mind) exists only to sort and correctly direct our desires. That is why we are made up of a heart and a mind. Intelligence is necessary to deal with desires properly.

There is a desire to enjoy, and a thought of how to realize this desire.

Desire (heart) is primary, thought (mind) is secondary. Reason serves the desire.
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From Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 5/13/18

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