Contrasts

Question: Why were we created with ego in the first place, if we will

eventually have to correct it?

We come to know the world by comparing opposites—hot vs. cold, black vs.

white. We recognize one in relation to the other. If everything were white, we

wouldn’t detect anything. Likewise, if everything were black, we wouldn’t

detect anything, either.

Contrast is always necessary, the disparity between colors, sensations, and

places. We sense the differences between things, but not each thing separately.

The Creator is love and bestowal. However, we will not be able to sense what

bestowal is if we are not opposite to it. This is why we need the ego—“help

made against him.” Being opposite from the Creator helps us know and sense

the Creator.

The Creator—the desire to love and give

The creature—the desire to receive

Because we are currently opposite from the Creator

we are hiding Him from ourselves

Correction—as we acquire the quality of love and bestowal

we equalize with the Creator and begin to sense Him

Love means to regard the other as yourself.

You know the other’s desires. You sense them as your own

desires, and you do everything you can to satisfy them.

M. Laitman