Another way to understand the difference between 'tohu' and 'tikun' being chesed and gevurah - love and fear, rotzo and shov | Love is a feeling of closeness, and comes from feeling close to that which you love | Love is produced only when that which you love is on your level, if not its closeness results in awe and self abnegation | The love of God produced by contemplating how He is the life of all the worlds | Similar to how a person loves the life of his own soul | Through the contemplation of כי הוא חייך one disconnects themselves from taking pleasure in physicality solely for the sake of the physical | The levels of נפש רוח ונשמה in the spiritual worlds | The love of Abraham • Link to view this page of the maamar: www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=31640&st=&pgnum=58 •