the holy is where you are
how we'll get through this is by filling up on the here and now
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The oldest truths are sometimes the easiest to forget, and during these times of suffering and rage – and when our own lives have their own stresses and complexities– sometimes it's good to pause and get an infusion of the good stuff.
So please, let's pause and engage deeply with the eternal truths in these passages – and remember, sometimes these texts talk about God. And maybe that word resonates for you and maybe it doesn't. And maybe plugging into the Great Interconnected Everythingness, or the Big Bigness, or the pulsing flow of your intuition, or the Universe, or love – whatever words resonate are great words, and for some people these are all the same thing and for other people they are not.
(Answers to Ask the Clergy next week!)
If you are amazed at how it is possible to speak, hear, smell, touch, see, understand, and feel, tell your soul that all living things collectively confer upon you the fullness of your experience. Not the least speck of existence is superfluous, everything is needed, and everything serves its purpose. 'You' are present within everything that is beneath you, and your being is bound up with all that transcends you. (Rav Kook, Orot ha-Kodesh, b. Latvia 1865- d. Jerusalem 1935)
