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Now you are being shown that one of your attributes is bad, but you are not yet shown how it feels compared to the qualities of the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Creator is still hidden from you, and you still don\u2019t feel Him. But it is through that comparison, through the gradual discovery of your negative attributes, that you\u2019ll begin to feel the Creator as something opposite to your own nature on the one hand, and as something near, soft and kind to you, on the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then you\u2019ll understand the principle of \u201cas far as light excelleth darkness\u201d (Ecclesiastes 2, 13). We are all vessels, and therefore can only understand the Light as something opposite to us, or else we would feel it as pleasure and not as another attribute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: I\u2019ve realized how selfish I am to people around me. It is terrible! I dream about changing. 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