Shabbat and the Shechinah

 

On Shabbat the soul of this world, the Shechinah, must rise back to her origin, to revisit her womb.

All the world  rises with her, as all who feel her presence know.

The Tear of Truth

 

That very first tear that flowed onto your cheek, that one that fell before you became aware, absorbed in thoughts too deep to be spoken, out of the sling of awakening to what this life is truly about and what you have done with it, as you yearned to be not where you are now, not what you are now. That tear was real, an unblemished offering. For a moment nothing else existed, nothing but your G-d and your naked soul before Him.

 

For a moment it was all true.

 

Until violently you were jerked back into your world of confusion, once again in the clutches of your ego, remarking, “Aha, a tear!” – and it is as though that moment had never been. So you say to yourself, “It was all a lie. Truth doesn’t pass. Truth is forever.”

If anything is a lie, it is your ego, your imaginary world and its darkness and confusion. All of that comes and oases, never to return. From there truth will never be born.

 

But for a moment a glimmer of truth  flashed from the world of truth into your world, achieved what it was meant to achieve, and returned to its source.

 

All else will disappear. That moment is forever.

 

Likutei Sichot, vol. 17. p 115 Ha’azinum 5728:4

John Donne

 

I shall not live till I see God,

And when I have seen Him

I shall never die.

John Donne

Quietness is the Answer!

 

There are questions to which God says to be quiet, 

to be still, to cease to ask.

The quietness, the stillness, the abandonment of being, 

that itself is an answer.

Tetzeh, 5725:4

Obstacles and Miracles

 

 

Obstacles are miracles

waiting to happen.

Likutei Sichot, vol. 6, Beshalach

 

Wisdom is the Glue of Beauty

 

Wisdom is the glue of beauty. Wisdom is the ability to step back and see the full picture; the past and, most important, the future to which all this leads. To see the truth inside each thing.

 

Without wisdom there are only fragments.

 

With wisdom there is a whole, and there is peace between all of its parts.

Sefer Hasichot, 5704

Peaks and Troughs

 

At the peaks of life you can catch a glimmer of 

the light of your soul.
When you hit rock bottom, 

you can touch its very core.

 

Maamar Vekibol. Hayahudim, 5735

Each thing sings and each is silent

 

Each thing sings and each is silent.

Each thing sings pulsating with the life God gives it.

And each is silent, and the silence says,

“I am just a thing that is. I simply am.”

The silence is also God

For he is the only one who can. Say “I am”.

Rabbi M. M. Schneeson

Darkness to Light

 

The truth of all darkness is its mandate to become light; the truth of all conscious beings is their mandate to perceive that light; the truth of all existence is to know that it emerges out of that which stands beyond existence.

 

Likutei Sichot. Vol 10

Boundless Energy

 

Energy, like you, has no beginning and no end. 

It can never be destroyed. 

It is only ever shifting states.

Panache Desai

The Intuitive Mind

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.

The rational mind is a faithful servant.

Albert Einstein

 

The Boundless Power of Healing

 

That boundless power of healing is to be sought in God.

I am a spark from the Infinite,

I am not flesh and bone.

I am light!!!

Paramchansa Yogananda

Man's Estrangement from Nature

Through scientific understanding, our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos. He is n longer involved in Nature and has lost his emotional participation in natural events, which hitherto had a symbolic meaning for him.

Carl Jung

 

Balance

 "Balance is my true nature."

Deepak Chopra