I am locked inside my own shell that separates me from the Creator who is outside. I am a slave; I cannot break out on my own. Every moment a force is working on me that automatically returns me to myself, to the egoistic center.

How can I make myself pay attention to what is happening outside so that I understand that this too is me and that there, outside, I exist together with the Creator? That is my true reality, there I am beyond my animal, and there is my soul, outside of that egoistic “me” by which I currently define myself.

These are two forces acting in nature. And I need to arrange things so that the second, centrifugal force acts on me just as naturally, instinctively, and inevitably as the first, the centripetal one.

Let it seize my mind and heart and forcefully pull them outward!

Let it compel me to think about others and care about them! I need this because without it I will not find my soul.

And here the power of the Kabbalistic group helps me. Only it can convince me to step outside my own circle and to pay attention to what is “outside it.”

And when I change my orientation from “intra” to “extra,” I stop worrying about the body and begin to care for the soul. I understand that the external reality that seemed foreign to me and completely indifferent hides within itself the real me!

This outer circle is in fact much more precious to me than the inner one because there lies my soul, which is eternal. And the inner circle is nothing more than the animal that is allotted some 70 years.

But the concealment does not allow me to see all this. And when I begin to understand it, I am astonished at how the Creator pranks me.
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From Preparation for the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, 4/1/10

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