7 Tips for an Easier Life: A Spiritual Perspective

One of my students brought me a list of 7 tips for an easier life, asking me to give my response to them, so here it goes…

1) The ability to wait is the best ability one can master.

If it is not about spiritual work, then yes. But if it is about spiritual work, then no. When it comes to spiritual work, one has to constantly move forward.

2) When you take the first step on your journey, you’re already halfway to victory.

The first step is not half the way to victory, but it is still an entrance. Whether it is the beginning of a victorious end will become clear through the rest of the steps.

3) If it is difficult, it means you are advancing.

Difficulty is not a sign of advancing correctly. Our progress is evidenced by our ability to summarize all problems, information, and opposites into one whole. They all complement each other and add up in an absolute precise way into one single perfect picture in our root that we are advancing.

4) Break the chains that constrict your thoughts and you will break the chains that constrict your body. In other words, we sometimes stand still because thoughts preventing our progress, and we should thus remove these negative thoughts in order to make our way forward.

We advance through both negative and positive thoughts together. They are both necessary. It is like a wheel where one part is moving forward and another part is moving backward relative to the center of the wheel.

5) Calmness is a condition for success.

No. Our progress on the spiritual path is via a combination of opposites. We have to be calm throughout movement that is endless and complete. If we are calm by relying on life’s flow to carry us wherever it wishes to take us, then we are not progressing spiritually. On the other hand, there are Eastern methodologies that do not involve what we term “the left line” in the wisdom of Kabbalah, i.e., the incorporation of negative qualities such as criticism within our advancement, and I thus cannot equate them with Kabbalah or provide any comment on them.

6) Judgment is darkness for a person. We should never insult and lower the individuality of a person in any way. The only thing we can do is to condemn him for his actions, but not the person himself.

We should not condemn anyone. We have to correct ourselves. When we correct ourselves, we correct the world in a way that there will be no one who would condemn you.

7) Belief in one’s rightness is a limitation.

Belief in one’s rightness has a place only when it is based on the absolute upper knowledge, not by the individual, but by the masses. When we move together with the masses and discover the positive force of nature dwelling in our connections, we then find true rightness. An individual person cannot have any rightness.

To orient ourselves in life, we need to be among nine other friends, and in this ten, like in a laboratory, we will be able to create a mini-system, a mini- society, where we can clearly project the entire nature, entire humanity, and all the worlds between us.

We would then create a magic balloon from our ten desires and intentions and we would see all universes, worlds, their inhabitants, and the positive force of nature in it like in a mini-image, a mini-model. By working on this model, we would then clearly understand who we are and where we are headed.