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• Our five senses block us from perceiving the true, eternal reality.
  
  
• The program that runs our five senses is called “egoism.”
  
  
• In order to know the greater reality that surrounds us, we need to develop an additional sense, what Kabbalists call “the sixth sense.”
  
  
• All of our thoughts and actions are motivated by the desire to receive pleasure (or, “the will to receive”).
  
  
• We evolve individually and humanity evolves as a whole through five sets of desires: (1) food, sex, shelter; (2) wealth; (3) honor, pride, power; (4) knowledge; (5) spirituality.
  
  
• Human nature is a will to receive (egoism) and the nature of the Creator is a will to bestow, unconditional altruism.
  
  
• The law of equivalence of form states that we are created in order to become equivalent to the Creator, i.e. to acquire altruistic qualities.