Who are you? Can you change who you are?
On the outside lie your thoughts, the words you speak, and the things you do. Those are the ways you dress yourself, your interface with the world.
On the inside lies your mind and heart. You have a certain way of perceiving the world, and the emotions and feelings that flow out of that perception. That is the internal you.
Real change can only come when your perception of yourself and of your world changes. So how do you make that change?
You can’t command yourself to perceive the world differently, to see beyond yourself, or feel differently about yourself, or to understand those things you cannot understand.
But here is a strategy that works:
Just as you can wash your clothes and bathe your skin, so you can focus your thoughts, guide your words and clean up your act.
Ignore, for the time being, that a messy storm rages within. Once scrubbed enough to let light pass through, eventually your inner self will awaken to that light.
This is what Moses told his people on their last day together: “The hidden things are up to G‑d. But the outer things are for us and our children forever, to do what needs to be done.”
Pray For Change Our self-centred nature must change!
That is our destiny.
We cannot change our nature. Our nature is a given, a program that operates you.
Only the Progammer can change it.
Recognize your flaw.
Praise Him for His higher quality nature that is opposite to ours.
Pray as our sages, Tzadiks, kabbalists did when they aspired together, as one man with one heart to become like Him.
Then we attract His attention. Each request will draw His Reforming Light that will gradually elevate you to a higher level of reason, perception and love of others. It's time for us as a nation to follow our sages.
The speed of this change is up to us.
If we accelerate the change with prayer we change in a pleasant way. If we don't act now we can expect more signals of suffering to force us in that direction.
We are at a serious turning point.