Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 24

How Can We Sharpen Our Sensitivity to the Layers of the Heart?

In any field or subject, we can develop increasing sensitivity through contemplation, immersion, and habituation. In Shamati article number 7, “What Is, “A Habit Becomes a Second Nature,” in the Work?” Baal HaSulam states that we can feel anything that exists in reality exclusively via habit.

We can start sensing previously unfelt phenomena by exerting and working in them. What is exertion and work? It is that very prayer. Then, we develop this sensory system, delve deeper, and feel it. Other than working on this desire to receive, there is no other way.

In spirituality, there is only one solution: work on this desire through the upper light via a plea to the Creator, who responds to the plea and provides for this desire. The process is straightforward: appeal upward and receive a response from above. There is nothing more to it.

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