Monthly Archives: September 2007
Welcome to a New Kind of Tension
We are constantly bombarded by television and radio advertisements always telling us what we need and why we need it. How many times have you seen something you just had to have, and a week after having gone out and bought it, you wonder why in the world you did that? You have just been … Continue reading
You’re Still a Soldier in Your Mind
Nothing is ever resolved by war itself. Take a look at all of humanity’s history. The function of war is to compel people to contemplate the true nature of what is happening. This, however, does not mean that war is unnecessary. It is necessary to fight. If we have been debased to such a level … Continue reading
One Man Come And Go
Man’s freedom is expressed mostly in freedom from death. If man were immortal, that would significantly alter his attitude to himself, to the world, to life. Then we would not call this reality – “life”… Our regular life, with its earthly concerns such as work, society, family and responsibilities with regard to those things; this … Continue reading
Let’s Take the Night off – this World’s a Mess
According to the law of nature, everyone in nature, in the still, the vegetative and the animate, receives what it needs in order to exist. Everything else beyond the necessary goes to benefit the other, the general system. In the whole of nature it happens automatically, necessarily. None of the animals do anything that is … Continue reading
I Don’t Know What’s Worth Fighting for
The Creator confuses us so much that there is no way for us to know that this is really coming from Him. However, our devotion to Him and our readiness to connect with Him is tested specifically in the concealment of the Creator. This is when the readiness to battle against our own egoism is … Continue reading
And You Know Sometimes Words Have Two Meanings
Since there are no words in the spiritual world to describe their spiritual feelings, Kabbalists call these experiences branches, a word taken from our world. Therefore the language used in books on Kabbalah is called the language of branches. It is a language that borrows words from our world and uses them to identify spiritual … Continue reading