How can a person be happy if he is lacking many things and is faced with many problems and challenges? From where can he draw the light of joy and its power when he is stumbling under a heavy load? Our Sages teach us that a prisoner cannot free himself from jail. How can someone from within his prison of struggles free himself on his own?
The answer is to have the awareness that all of the issues are in the externals of life: belongings, physical issues, even spiritual ones, but none of them touch a person's inner soul. Just as we know that sins only affect a person superficially, the same is true with other of life's troubles, they are superficial. But internally the flow of life through a person is complete and filled with light. The Soul is never depressed or oppressed, but it shines with a lofty sense of completeness.
If a person can learn to jump from the external to the internal, from an external existence full of challenges and pain, to an internal existence full of completeness and joy, he will then receive an outpouring of light which will enable him to find the ability to heal his wounded external.
The bottom line is that the external is,indeed, very deficient, but the internal is perfect. One who knows how to connect himself to the internal will find powerful joy, and imbue his external with fresh life that has the power to fight against challenges, depression and oppression, and to shine with a complete light.
דברים תש"ח
The answer is to have the awareness that all of the issues are in the externals of life: belongings, physical issues, even spiritual ones, but none of them touch a person's inner soul. Just as we know that sins only affect a person superficially, the same is true with other of life's troubles, they are superficial. But internally the flow of life through a person is complete and filled with light. The Soul is never depressed or oppressed, but it shines with a lofty sense of completeness.
If a person can learn to jump from the external to the internal, from an external existence full of challenges and pain, to an internal existence full of completeness and joy, he will then receive an outpouring of light which will enable him to find the ability to heal his wounded external.
The bottom line is that the external is,indeed, very deficient, but the internal is perfect. One who knows how to connect himself to the internal will find powerful joy, and imbue his external with fresh life that has the power to fight against challenges, depression and oppression, and to shine with a complete light.
דברים תש"ח
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