Question: How can one increase one’s power of overcoming when an even greater egoistic desire is revealed?

Answer: All of a person’s qualities, no matter how they may seem to him, from good to the very worst, are revealed within the framework of a general system of souls moving toward unity according to the program of creation. Therefore we cannot attribute any of a person’s personal manifestations to the person himself. Like a cogwheel, like an integral part of the system, one is obliged to reveal in oneself a certain set of inclinations, impulses, and states.

Whatever happens in a person, one does not need to make any calculation about it. After all, it is not they themselves, but the general system, in a given state, that determines what happens to him now.

Thus, you do not need to worry about the current state; there is nothing you can do about it. It is woven from thousands of factors external to you. As for the future state, there is nothing to think about it either, because that too does not depend on you; it is determined by the needs of the system that must make a step forward.

In essence, all I have to think about is how I am going to take this step. What is it that depends on me?

Here too there are things that are carried out not by me, but by the upper force, revealed not by me, but by the upper light. A person conducts an analysis and reaches the point where they can truly realize themselves. And they see a very clear and precise action, like pressing a button.

This is the task of a person: to identify only the action required of him or her every moment and to carry it out. In the course of this analysis, one reveals many other things as well, and as a result, by pressing the button, one activates the system and begins to perceive it, accept it, and integrate into it.

In other words, a person begins to attain the system as a whole. One is by no means a guinea pig that finds the button for the feeder in the maze. On the contrary, through one’s efforts in various states, a person attains the conditions, causes, and essence of what is happening.

Once one reaches the button, a person will undoubtedly press it. The whole matter here is in analysis, and it is the real treasure.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/12/11, Rabash, “What Is the Meaning of ‘Reply unto Your Heart’?”

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