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
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