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We Are The Mystery
The kabbalists through the centuries would always prelude a physical act with an incantation that declared the act as one of unifying the Godhead with the Shechinah, Creator with Creation, God Transcendent with God Immanent…
Spirituality is as much about the body as it is about the soul. The physical universe is more than merely an arena in which we evolve spiritually, it is the very means by which we evolve spiritually. It happens here. It happens not in the Garden of Paradise, but in the Garden of Paradox. The body is not only a vehicle for soul manifestation, it is a sacred facilitator of soul realization…
No person, no retreat or workshop, no book, no teacher, can transmit spirituality to you, can unravel for you the layers of ego and id that hide your soul self. No one but you can do your own spiritual work, and no one person’s spiritual work resembles in any way that of another. Each of us is here for reasons unknown to our selves, let alone to others. Each of us is a mystery unique from any other person’s mystery. As Martin Buber wrote: “The mystery of another lies deep within him, and it cannot be observed from without” (Die Stunde und die Erkenntnis, p. 155).
— Notes on Jewish Spirituality, By Winkler, Gershon
We are an unknown quantity to ourselves as well as to others. Discovering the world as we go through our earthly…
