We must strive through our own efforts to reach a state in which we constantly guard our connection with the Creator and try to stay connected with each other and with Him, without losing sight of what is happening in every cell of our animal and spiritual body, both inside and outside the collective Kli (vessel)—our group.

All of this happens solely according to His will, intention, and influence. But we desire to be in constant intention and constant appeal to Him. In this way, we are joyful about any changes, any fluctuations, that occur within us because they give us the opportunity to feel that we exist somewhere and that we are doing something.

After all, if there were no such movement, we would not feel any changes. Without feeling disturbances, we would not feel life or its inner motion. That is why we rejoice in all kinds of disturbances, no matter what they are! They compel us to concentrate even more together in mutual support because only in this way can we understand how to position ourselves before the Creator in order to form a pair with Him: He and us.

Therefore we begin to feel our life not in the achievement of closeness with the Creator, but in the very movement toward Him, which becomes the most important, joyful, and fulfilling thing for us. In other words, the goal is not to reach similarity and adhesion with Him, but rather to strive toward it because it is precisely in this striving that we experience the movement of spiritual life.

It is similar to any form of creativity; when a person creates, he lives. The process itself gives a sense of life because it is motion; it is the revelation of new problems, new desires, and their solutions. That is why we act this way.

Every day and every moment we need to rejoice in the efforts that we can make for the sake of advancement on the path of Achishena toward the Creator.
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From Lesson #1, Convention in St. Petersburg, 7/29/2016

Related Material:
Exercise: “In Connection with the Creator”
Achishena—The Method of Self-Directed Advancement
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