Looking at the End
“…. One should start by looking at the end, I.e.,, at the purpose of creation. For nothing can be understood in the middle of the process, but only at its end.”Our problem is that we never know the end of anything. The only thing we know in this small animate world is to give advice to our children: “do this, don’t do that”. However, they do not listen to us. In our life, we cannot see the end of the next level or its consequences.
Commentary by Rav Michael Laitman PhD
Page 111
After I buried all of these dead intentions and they decomposed completely I now begin to resurrect them. I have gained strength and acquired a screen. While excavating each of my egoistical intentions from the ground I say: “Here is my true original property - the intention for my own sake. Now I will transform this intention “for my own sake” into the intention “for the sake of the Creator”.
In spirituality, we understand time as a number of necessary actions aimed at achieving a certain spiritual level. These actions form a cause-and-effect chain. The less corrected man is, the more the Creator conceals Himself from him; the more man’s way to the Creator turns from a sequence of spiritual actions into an unconscious flow of time.
The thing is that the prayer should be in the heart. This is the meaning of the work in the heart, that the heart will agree to what one says with one’s mouth (otherwise, it is deceit, that is, one’s mouth and heart are not the same). 
You should never dig into your uncorrected desires. “one is where one’s thoughts are.” Think of the Creator, of His Thought, and His Greatness. Only the surrounding Light, which comes through your study, can change you; you cannot do so by yourself. Therefore, don’t even try; it is not the right approach.
Hence, when the Creator wishes to bring him out of the dense forest, He shows him a remote Light, and the person gathers the remains of his strength to walk on the path that the Light shows him, in order to attain it.
The entire path of spiritual ascension is a gradual refusal to receive greater and greater pleasures; first, the pleasures of our world, and then from the real spiritual pleasures, in particular the perception of the Creator.
The equivalence of properties and merging with the Creator is much higher than just receiving the light, since because of the equivalence of properties, the soul rises to the level of the Creator. It not only receives the light from the Creator, but also ascends to His level. Thus, it rises from the level of creation to the Creator’s level and also comprehends that which is above its nature.
