It is there inside.
Everything is there inside.
But the “I” stands guard firmly at the gate.
From the wisdom of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory; words and condensation by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman. Subscribe and get your dose daily. To order Rabbi Freeman’s latest book, Wisdom to Heal the Earth, click here.
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Eugina Giovanna Herrera
New York City, New York
June 16, 2013
I "I"
G-d stands guard too with I as "I" + (I'M).
Thank you
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Anonymous
Ca
June 16, 2013
Please explain more and tell me what it exactly means. I wish you would always give an explanation on daily doses because they are so important and I really like to understand them. Reply
José Flávio Nogueira Guimarães
Belo Horizonte, MG/Brazil
January 13, 2011
Great paradox? I guess the great spiritual mystery has been posted! Who will decipher it? We must get to know ourselves in order to grow spiritually but at the same time we must give up our selves, deny the "I", in order to achieve holiness. Great paradox, indeed. We have everything inside us to reach spiritual growth and holiness but the "I" blocks the way. Is the moderate way, "golden path," the right means? Reply
Judith L Witten
Brockton, Ma/USA
January 13, 2011
Under Guard While reading this something came to me about my mother who has been not with me for ten years now - she has died - and the memory that I had was of a poem I wrote her about somebody in my mind that was waiting at the Gate. And she wrote a poem back to me indicating that she agreed that there is a part of you that appears at the harbor/gate of the mind and waits - but - even though I wrote this I know that G-d makes the decisions about all of our lives - He is in charge also that life is a long long individual processing of communicating through relationships. - Thanks Reply
Anonymous
portsmouth, ohio
January 13, 2011
standing guard the good soldier serves at the gate, allowing in those who enter with Torah and mitzvahs, repelling those who bring unrest. Reply
Syed
January 13, 2011
True Very true and very enlightening! Thanks for sharing! Reply
Breaking Free I am enslaved to my ego.
My thoughts revolve around what's best for me.
I prefer my opinions, my company, my profits.
This is my world.
To enter G_d's world
I must shift my attitude, my thoughts to include others as part of me.
In G_d's world there is no 'I' to serve. A collective system lives there where my I is directed towards the life of the system. This is our soul with G_d's light flowing within it.
Shifting our mindset to a new attitude will ultimately free us from self captivity.