"If the doors of perception were cleansed,everything would appear to man as it is: infinite."
William Blake "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
"When one contemplates things, everything is revealed as one."
Zohar I:24.1a
"Each religion brings out its own doctrines and insists on them being the only true ones...This is not through wickedness, but through a particular disease of the human psyche of the human brain called fanaticism"
Vivekananda "Living At The Source"

Sunday, February 14, 2010

The Tanya On The Results of Meditation

I studied this passage with my Rabbi when learning Tanya. We both were quite taken by it:

"When the intellect of the rational soul contemplates and immerses deeply in the greatness of God--how God fills all worlds and surrounds all worlds, in whose presence everything is considered as nothing--there is born and awakened in the mind a feeling of awe for the transcendent...Then his heart will be afire with an intense love, like burning coals, with desire, longing, and a passionate soul, for the greatness of the blessed Ein Sof. The is yearning of the soul."

Shneur Zalman of Liadi
Tanya, 14 Likkutei Amarim, Chapter 3
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