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Hi. My name is George and I’m from Melbourne, Australia.
The previous course taught me that everything is the will of God and all things in life have been installed by God with an altruistic intention, which makes it so much easier to accept myself and to open myself up to life by not being afraid to embrace all that I am. I hope that my complete willingness to participate in this process of attaining spirituality through the full and complete experience of life is the way to bestow to God. In particular, I hope this course would help me understand how to use my vessel of reception to bestow to others for the sake of peace.
I think for me, the thing I got most from Part II of the course was why concealment is so important for our spiritual growth. Egoism is the means by which the Creator conceals Himself from us to provide us the sensation of free will, and so that we can learn of our true nature and to want to cleave to that. Egoism plays a critical role in the realization that only love works, and that love thy neighbor as thy self is the only way to have peace and vitality in life.
Kabbalah has taught me to appreciate the altruistic intention behind all aspects of life, which makes it so much easier to accept myself and to open myself up to the process of spiritual growth by fully embracing all that I am without fear. Kabbalah has taught me that God takes it upon Himself to be responsible for our spiritual growth and development and that we only need to fully open ourselves to the process, which is the way we return love to God.
My role in the process is to open myself up to it by embracing all that I am and by not being afraid to experience all that life has to offer, knowing there is an altruistic intention behind all there is to experience in life. I simply have to trust the process and have complete faith in life and in myself.
I have learned to appreciate the invaluable role egoism plays in teaching me a lot about myself and what it means to love thy neighbor as thyself. I have learned that I cannot learn much about myself and to appreciate what love looks like without experiencing some degree of adversity in life. The study of Kabbalah is helping me to accept myself and embrace all that I am, knowing egoism is a necessary part of achieving spirituality. My ego is a blessing and an act of love by the Creator.
Hi. My name is George and I’m from Melbourne, Australia.
To love thy neighbor as thyself — does this mean to understand the intentions of my neighbor’s actions in an effort to provide my neighbor with the satisfaction he / she is looking for, even in situations where the satisfaction of my neighbor’s intentions may not be to my personal satisfaction? If so, how is it possible to always understand what others want from us?
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