A person, we’re talking about the real person, his soul and who he really is, is where his thoughts are. A mystic once enlightened his student, “better to be on the outside looking inside, than to be on the inside looking outside.”
This is quite profound. If you had a choice, would you rather live in a million dollar house, but in your mind you are living in a dark ugly world, or live very modestly, but in your mind where you are focused the sun was shining?
The fact that thoughts put the entire person in a situation, in the present tense and even ultimately, reveals and proves the closeness between the garment of thought and one’s soul.
Even though the desire and will for something derives from an even deeper place in one’s soul than thought, the will and desire for something must always flow through the conduit of thought to express itself. That is why we find interchangeable the expression, “where a person’s desire and will is, or where a person’s thoughts are, that is where the person himself finds himself.”
What you really desire and want, will express itself in your thoughts, and whatever you are thinking about, that is who you are and where you find yourself in life.
This influence of thought on the soul is not superficial, but an actual transference and conveyance of the soul itself, to where the thoughts are. The desire in one’s mind, what you allow yourself to think of, represents the yearning and the course-plotting of the soul itself, as opposed to when a person says something or acts in a certain way, it may very well be one of the heart and one of the mouth. The talk or the act can be totally outward, and not authentic to the person himself.
When angels above are passionate for G-dliness, they are described as being one with G-d and even higher than G-d. When a person yearns and desires for something and he is thinking strongly regarding his wish and aspiration, he points and is guiding his soul in that direction, and as far as the soul is concerned he is there, right now at this moment.
So if a person desires and thinks Holy thoughts, that’s where his life is. When a person desires and thinks unholy thoughts, that’s also where his life is.
Physically, a person may be and “appear” in a holy place and yet, where he really is, and what his character really is, is one that is rolling around in the mud no better than a cow.
I had a very famous teacher who was in the gulag of Siberia. On his birthday he imagined himself asking for a blessing from his spiritual mentor and actually got a written response sent to him.
Yes, what we desire and how we think is so powerful, it can take us to great places.
This is quite profound. If you had a choice, would you rather live in a million dollar house, but in your mind you are living in a dark ugly world, or live very modestly, but in your mind where you are focused the sun was shining?
The fact that thoughts put the entire person in a situation, in the present tense and even ultimately, reveals and proves the closeness between the garment of thought and one’s soul.
Even though the desire and will for something derives from an even deeper place in one’s soul than thought, the will and desire for something must always flow through the conduit of thought to express itself. That is why we find interchangeable the expression, “where a person’s desire and will is, or where a person’s thoughts are, that is where the person himself finds himself.”
What you really desire and want, will express itself in your thoughts, and whatever you are thinking about, that is who you are and where you find yourself in life.
This influence of thought on the soul is not superficial, but an actual transference and conveyance of the soul itself, to where the thoughts are. The desire in one’s mind, what you allow yourself to think of, represents the yearning and the course-plotting of the soul itself, as opposed to when a person says something or acts in a certain way, it may very well be one of the heart and one of the mouth. The talk or the act can be totally outward, and not authentic to the person himself.
When angels above are passionate for G-dliness, they are described as being one with G-d and even higher than G-d. When a person yearns and desires for something and he is thinking strongly regarding his wish and aspiration, he points and is guiding his soul in that direction, and as far as the soul is concerned he is there, right now at this moment.
So if a person desires and thinks Holy thoughts, that’s where his life is. When a person desires and thinks unholy thoughts, that’s also where his life is.
Physically, a person may be and “appear” in a holy place and yet, where he really is, and what his character really is, is one that is rolling around in the mud no better than a cow.
I had a very famous teacher who was in the gulag of Siberia. On his birthday he imagined himself asking for a blessing from his spiritual mentor and actually got a written response sent to him.
Yes, what we desire and how we think is so powerful, it can take us to great places.