Questions for today:
I feel like I know myself, but is there more? Am I truly the sum total of the ideas, dreams and emotions that course through my consciousness?
King David teaches that charity is the key to the redemption. In order to understand this, we're going to spend a few days to understand the inner workings of a person, and which part could be ‘captured’.
Tragically there are so many people that attempted suicide off of the golden gate bridge that there's a whole group of people that survived. When they met they found that nineteen of them had an identical thought.
As soon as their feet left the surface they all thought, nobody is going to know that I really wanted to live.
How could that be? they just worked so hard to do the opposite!
However, just like in the temple there is an inner altar and an outer altar, there is also an inner consciousness and an outer consciousness within each person.
The love, the happiness, that we get because of our contemplation, our thoughts, are not our ‘self’, that love isn't who we are.
There is an entirely different level of consciousness which on the one hand, we all share equally no matter how we think or how much we work, but on the flip side we only access it rarely.
This is a love that is an expression of who we are - the fact that our soul is one with the creator.
227 07 Tanya Menachem Av 9 ~ m255 07 Menachem Av 13
Tanya book 4, Essay 4, pt1
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