In the past, Kabbalists had to put their bodies through physical torments in order to reveal spirituality, as it is said: “Eat bread with salt, drink plain water, sleep on bare ground, and study the Torah [1], and then you will succeed!” Nowadays you can sleep on a featherbed mattress, like a princess on a pea, eat whatever you want and as much as you want.
The question is, where do our intentions lie? We have reached a state where we shouldn’t focus on our actions but rather on our intentions. After all, actions are easy, whereas correcting the intention is the most dreadful, difficult act. This is the fate of our generation, it’s the final degree of correction.
Right now we are standing before a wall. We must change our attitude toward the Creator [2], the single force of Nature. This wall will collapse only when we decide, in at least one of the tens [3], to walk through it. The corporeal world will then begin disappearing from our perception.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/19/2016
Related Material:
One Desire, Different Intentions [4]
Approaching The Correction [5]
One’s Own Trial [6]