Reply To: Shevuos Vort: Our Power to heed Torah and fascinating reason for eating dairy

The Haflaoh, Panim Yafos in Parshas Nitzovim on ובחרת בחיים explains that when we want to do mitzvos or convince someone to do mitzvos, do it from life emphazing the gan eden over the gehinom. That is why to fight the yetzer hara thinking of the day of death should the be the last resort. Doing mitzvos from life by learning Torah and looking at its reward of life through the reading of krias shema, this world and the next world, brings to loving of Hashem whereas the other way frightens him.