This soul of yours, ultimately she finds there is something even more momentous than she herself.
There is her purpose.
To accomplish, to heal, to fix up the world
—these, she discovers, take precedence over her thirst to return to her womb, to bask in the divine light from which she came.
In that moment of discovery she graduates from being G‑d’s little child to become one with His very being.
What Can I Fix?
Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai hid from the Romans in a cave for thirteen years. There he was visited by heavenly beings, by Elijah the prophet and even by Moses. It was there that he composed the holy Zohar.
When he left the cave and came to a town, he did not say, “Let me enlighten you with the inner light of Torah, the light that has been hidden since the six days of creation.”
He said, “What is there in your town that I can fix?”
Whatever knowledge a human being is given in this world, whatever wisdom, enlightenment or inspiration, it is all only and exclusively for one purpose: To assist him to fix up this world.
There are things that are important to us, so we speak about them.
There are things so important to us that the words flow out in a burst of emotion, rich words, expressive and vibrant.
And then there are things that shake us to the core. Things that do not care for the mind’s permission or for the right words—for the mind cannot fathom them, the most poignant words could not contain them. Things that can only break out in a cry, in a scream, and then in silence.
This is the sound of the shofar: The very core of our souls crying, “Father! Father!”
On Failure …
Adam trudged past the gates of Eden, his head low, his feet heavy with remorse and pain.
Then he stopped, spun around and exclaimed, “Wait a minute! You had this all planned! You put that fruit there knowing I would eat from it! This is all a plot!”
There was no reply.
Without failure, we can never truly reach into the depths of our souls. Only once we have failed can we return and reach higher and higher without end.
Beyond Eden.
Time Travel …
To change the past, there is no need to travel in a time machine. Everything can be done by remote control.
Here’s how it works: From beyond the continuum of time, its Creator looks at where your spaceship is heading right now. From that point, He creates all its trajectory—through the future and through the past.
Switch the direction your past is sending you. Soon enough, it becomes a different past.
Original Success …
Before your soul descended to this world, it was determined she would succeed. If not in this lifetime, then in another, or yet another—eventually she will fulfill her entire mission.
And in each lifetime, she will move further ahead.
It was this knowledge that conceived her.
It was this inspiration that brought the world to be.
It is this vision of her success
that lies at the essence of all things.
At a certain point, each of us, through all our many journeys through life, will have found and redeemed all the divine sparks in our share of the world.
Then the darkness that holds such mastery, such cruelty, such irrational evil that it contains no redeeming value—all this will simply vanish like a puff of steam in the midday air.
All that we salvaged and used for good, on the other hand, will shine with a tremendous light beyond even the light of the G‑dly realm.
The world will have arrived.
National Geographic, Vol. 208, No. 6, 109.
Pushed By The Barriers …
Nothing limits you, no force that holds you captive—other than a fiction of your imagination.
So you will say, “What, then, of the forces of nature? Of the constraints of a human body? Of the hard reality that slams against me when I attempt to stride through the barriers of life?”
Yes, they are there. But they are not what they seem to be.
They are not there simply to oppose you, but to carry you. As your soul pulls forward, those barriers force her inward, towards her deepest and strongest self.
Be Something
The point is not to be a nothing.
The Creator created you to be a something.
But not a something because you are something.
A something because your purpose is everything.
A mentor, our sages tell us, must be like an angel. That’s a problem.
Having never seen an angel, you will always be in doubt: Perhaps the mentor you have chosen is not like an angel. How can you ever rely on your mentor while so unsure of his or her qualifications?
So we will clarify: The mentor must be a human angel.
An angel, because just as an angel has no body, no hatred, no jealousy and is not in competition with you, so the mentor must remain objective and uninfluenced by any personal benefit from the advice.
And yet a human being: With compassion, with a conscience, and with a passion for kind deeds.
Plugged In
Good deeds, like light bulbs, need electricity.
Good deeds, like limbs of a living body, need life.
Good deeds, like a human being, require a mind and a heart.
A good deed has to connect you to your source above. If it is connected, it glows with life.
Grand Temple of Horus Behdety 