Our entire path consists of descents and ascents. There is nothing in a person that does not break and subsequently get restored. Only by comparing each supposedly bad and supposedly good quality, at the junction between them can we build something, do something, somehow prepare, create an inner Kli, and then fill it.
Therefore, a person must never think: “What state am I in?” This is the wrong attitude. One should not pay attention to the state. A person must always think, “What am I aspiring toward?” rather than “Where am I starting from?” He should never think, “How am I doing?” but rather, “What must I aspire toward?” That is, he must see the quality, the image, the characteristic toward which he must aspire.
Never think about yourself. As soon as you begin thinking about yourself, a descent occurs immediately, and an enormous number of obstacles appear that pull you inward and to the sides. Do not focus on yourself, but think from yourself outward. Then we will quickly pass through all the necessary, obligatory states.
We will understand that all of them come so that, despite what passes through us, we constantly aspire toward the one. This is what must be revealed, clarified, and concluded from reviewing the entire chain of states that we must pass through.
And there are very many of them. Each one is further divided into many others, and a person can pass through an enormous number of all kinds of states every second. This depends only on the aspiration forward. The more I aspire forward and constantly and more clearly and strongly direct myself toward the goal, the faster the little motor turns, which spins these states within me, and the greater the speed of their passage within me is.
This depends on me. If I am not directed toward anything, then this wheel, this chain of Reshimot within me, stands still. If I begin to aspire forward a little, it begins to spin more and more. If I stop and occupy myself with myself, everything stops; everything is dead. Therefore, one must think only moving outward from oneself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson for the holiday of Sukkot, 9/25/26
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