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110. Out of the Center

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If you think about yourself all day, you are guaranteed to become depressed.

Take an hour a day to think of how you can benefit someone else.

Based on letters and talks of the Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson
From the wisdom of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory; words and condensation by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman. To order Rabbi Freeman’s book, Bringing Heaven Down to Earth, click here.
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November 1, 2010
Re: US
We are all G-d's children, and He loves us all equally. We also equally play a part of His plan and His purpose. He created us to glorify Him, serve Him, and worship Him. He instructed us to not only love each other and care for each other, but to also reflect Him to each other.

You are so right when you say that G-d never made divisions between people. People created religion as well as the barriers that come with it. It is these barriers that keep us all a apart. These man-made barriers are called "dictates", "traditions', 'rituals', "commentaries' and interpretations," That is why we have become a world of "us and them." It is a strange thing indeed when man feels he is qualified to tell the rest of us who G-d is and what He wants; and by the condition of this world you can clearly see that those qualifications are sorely lacking.

For myself if I have a question, I go straight to the Source. His will is the center of my life. Yes we are one family-and you are part of mine.
Loriann Cordero
Waterbury, CT
November 1, 2010
Timely
It is true. I have never been an ambitious self. My life has been for the most part about service. I have struggled with self in this respect, why I am called on so often. After thinking about mitzvahs, I feel that G-d is allowing me to clean up my messes, and my depression. I feel the drag of self, but I move a little faster now to do the mitzvahs : just because I am called. I'm beginning to understand. Timely because one is due tomorrow. They forgot, but I remembered.
Mr. Leon Anderson Jr.
November 1, 2010
the third wisdom on depression
This is the third daily wisdom of depression i recieve, and i wonder....
Being not jewish, my thinking might come from different angle, but like mr. Bakhtiari i also believe in God, on my own personal way, not belonging to any religion, but respecting.
But again i must say, you can not make a person liable for an illness.
kameo
the netherlands
August 9, 2010
US
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO US?
WHY ARE WE NOW WHERE WE ARE, WHEN WE ALL ARE CREATIONS OF G-D?
Was G-d’s plan that we should have different religions in which we think that we are superior and the other is inferior or are we the ones who have done so?
Being a Muslim, this is the 1st time I have some exposure to a Jewish teaching - well I should not say Jewish teaching, I should say
G-d’s teaching, because G-d does not make any distinction among humanity or does he?
And I tell you after reading the verses I feel great that we all are the same, one family. I feel so peaceful with myself that it is not what it seems to be, the truth is so different and finally G-d has a plan for all of us and no force can stop it.
I THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART AND ESPECIALLY TO RANDY PRESSMAN WHO REFERRED US TO THIS SITE.
ANSAR H BAKHTIARI
westminster, ca
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