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When desires for worldly pleasures\u2014food, sex, family, wealth, power, and knowledge\u2014fail to keep their promise of lasting happiness, \u201cthe point in the heart\u201d begins to develop. It\u2019s a desire for something higher, appearing when all the mundane desires have exhausted themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kabbalearn<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kabbalah distinguishes the desire for the Creator from all other desires. Desires for worldly pleasures are called \u201cman\u2019s heart,\u201d while the desire for the Creator is called \u201cthe point in the heart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Point in the Heart<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The point in the heart, the desire for Light\u2014the Creator\u2014awakens within the egoistic desires, which an individual cannot fulfill. Faced with the inability to satisfy the desire for the Creator through worldly means, a person comes to the final state of the evolution of the will to receive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When that happens, that person often feels dark inside. But this is not because he or she has grown worse. On the contrary, it is because that person has become more corrected, drawn more Light, and the new Light shines on new places in the soul. But because these places are not yet corrected, they often give off a \u201cdark\u201d feeling. When darkness appears, it\u2019s a sure sign that you have made progress and that Light is sure to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the \u201cIntroduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot,\u201d Baal HaSulam writes that it\u2019s as if the Creator appears to a person from amidst the cracks in a wall and offers hope for future peace. In Kabbalah, this is called \u201cputting one\u2019s hand on the good fortune.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When desires for worldly pleasures\u2014food, sex, family, wealth, power, and knowledge\u2014fail to keep their promise of lasting happiness, \u201cthe point 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