{"id":16572,"date":"2026-01-27T16:17:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=16572"},"modified":"2026-01-27T16:17:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:17:26","slug":"sticking-with-the-ascent","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/sticking-with-the-ascent\/","title":{"rendered":"Sticking With the Ascent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Q: During a spiritual ascent, when you\u2019re supposed to think about a lower situation, does that mean that you have to artificially descend to that situation?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>&nbsp;Only the evil force pushes us to suffer and \u201ceat our own flesh.\u201d Never, under any circumstances, should you look for lower situations because \u201cone is where one\u2019s thoughts are.\u201d The lower the situation one is tied to, the more distant one is from the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Q: Is it true that when in low situations, it is good to remind myself of good situations?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>&nbsp;No. It\u2019s not good to remind yourself how good you felt during the ascent, because you\u2019ve already fallen from that. If you now rise up again by remembering that ascent, it is not a correction or a new distinction. Quality-wise, your current degree will be no better than your former one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, it is best to search for new reasons to rise, make new assessments about the greatness of the Creator, the purpose of creation, and the nothingness of your own situation, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: During a spiritual ascent, when you\u2019re supposed to think about a lower situation, does that mean that you have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":16014,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"topic":[27],"class_list":["post-16572","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-michael-laitman"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kabbalah | Sticking With the Ascent<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;Sticking With the Ascent,&quot; 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