Why Is Your Goal Not That Simple?

There is an idea that our goals should be simple, clear, and written-down. However, if we are truly developing to life’s ultimate goal of achieving balance with nature’s laws of love, bestowal, and positive connection — which the wisdom of Kabbalah also describes as “adhesion with the Creator” — then we have no simplicity or clarity. We are then in a constant turmoil, engaged in endless scrutinies and examinations. As soon as we resolve something, we immediately encounter new challenges.

Even in major corporeal goals, we can see such a momentum. That is, there are several examples of people who have made inventions or scientific discoveries of things that humanity had never seen or thought of before their developments, and they usually went through many ups and downs toward those achievements.

Therefore, if we are in a process of developing toward our ultimate goal as human beings, we are then in ongoing states of turmoil and clarification. The more we develop, the bigger and greater the desires, doubts, and thoughts emerge in us. We then continually ask ourselves about how we can truly find life’s purpose.

I once drew this as a coordinate system where a person moves along a sinusoid line, progressing toward life’s goal through increasing ruptures. It showed that we have to reach rock bottom time and again in order to rise further upward in our development. In the wisdom of Kabbalah — the goal of which is none other than adhesion with the Creator, i.e., the upper force of love, bestowal, and connection, while we are alive in this world through correcting our nature from its inborn egoistic state to altruistic like the Creator — we learn about the greatest Kabbalists, that before they reached the complete correction, they found themselves at the lowest point. Knowing this principle, we construct a supportive environment around us of teachers, friends, and texts that support us through these low points time after time, and which help accelerate the process of our attainment of life’s loftiest goal.