Despair is the ultimate form of self-worship --the perception that you have the capacity to truly mess up, to take the world's destiny out of its Creator's hands and sabotage His plans.
[Know that the world is in a constant state of elevation, rocketing upwards towards its ultimate wholeness at every moment. Every quivering of every leaf, every subtle breeze, every slightest motion of any particle of our universe is another move in that same direction. Even those events that seem to thrust downward are in truth only a part of the ascent --like the poise of an athlete before he leaps, the contraction of a spring before its energy is released. ]
There is not a thing you could do halt that dynamic even for a moment. True, you must take responsibility for your deeds and work hard, very hard, to clean up your own mess. But when all the dust settles, you are exactly in the space where you were meant to be: One step closer.
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Are you saying that despair is any different then the poise of an athlete before he leaps?
In other words, if everything that happens is part of the plan (of getting one step closer, whatever that means) why would despair be any different?
...one step closer.
i ask: one step closer to what?
Ye, hun, notice the gradual shrinking of that paragraph...
I thought that whole athlete thing went woop off tangent.
Despair is just paragraph A and paragraph C. Tx for flyin:')
anonymous, clarify what ur point is.
closer to the end. life is like a computer game with levels to go through, tests and riddles, spanning thousands of years with hundreds of tests but also like a novel written by the divine hand. everything that hurts is for a reason and is one step closer to whatever it is that we all need to reach i.e. the revelation of g-d in this world to all and the era of peace and happiness when all pain becomes joy as you can see why it was necessary and how it improved you etc.
i don't follow this athlete thing sorry.
this is from my understanding of various texts, all torah, chasidic and litvishe but if you think I am wrong please correct.
great point..
I love the way u express urself...
despair serves absolutely no purpose..
Okey, for about the tenth time, look to labels for sources. ty.
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