“The greater you are, the more you need to search for your self. Your deep soul hides itself from consciousness. So you need to increase aloneness, elevation of thinking, penetration of thought, liberation of mind – until finally your soul reveals itself to you, spangling a few sparkles of her lights.

  “Then you find bliss, transcending all humiliations or anything that happens, by attaining equanimity, by becoming one with everything that happens, by reducing yourself so extremely that you nullify existence in the depth of yourself. “What are we?” Then you know every spark of truth, every bolt of integrity flashing anywhere.

  “Then you gather everything, without hatred, jealousy, or rivalry. The splendor of compassion and the glory of love shine through you. The desire to act and work, the passion to create and to restore yourself, the yearning for silence and for the inner shout of joy – these all band together in your spirit, and you become holy.”

–  The Kabbalah