We all have dreams

We all have dreams, and we all wish for them

to come true. But the sad truth is that we never

feel that we have realized all our dreams because

even if we fulfill them, new ones step in to replace

those we have fulfilled. As a result, we never feel satisfied.

And the more we strive for wealth, power,

fame, and everything else we deem pleasurable, the

more dissatisfied we become, and the more disillusioned.

Thus, the more we have, the more frustrated

and disillusioned we are because we will have tried

harder to find happiness and will have failed more

often, and possibly more bitterly. This explains

why richer countries generally suffer from higher

depression rates.

Ironically, there is a positive aspect to depression.

It is an indication that we have given up on

Nimrod’s way of focusing solely on our desire to

receive. People who are depressed are those who

see no prospect of joy or happiness in the future.

They are too experienced in life’s failures to be

lured into yet another failed attempt at happiness.

But all they need to cure their depression is to realize

that there is another half of reality, the “giving

half.” If we can help these people see that they have

been trying to suck joy out of a vacuum—a desire to

receive—a force that knows only how to receive and

not how to give, it will bring back all the hope and

energy that they lost to depression.

Indeed, reality is a two-legged creature, and we

have been using only one of them. Why, then, are

we surprised that it reality is lame?

Michael Laitman