The living creatures have no freedom of choice–to choose pain or reject pleasure. And man’s advantage over animals is that he can aim at a remote goal, meaning to agree to a certain amount of current pain, out of choice of future benefit or pleasure, to be attained after some time.
Rav Yehuda Ashlag
May 29, 2009 at 6:09 am
I have just come across your blog and was just reading through some of your posts, very interesting, the above is quiet powerful.
Regards
Janet