This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared by Alan Lew

Author:Alan Lew [LEW, ALAN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780759528215
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2003-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

WHAT THE SOUL DOES WHILE THE GATES ARE STILL OPEN

THE TEN DAYS OF TESHUVAH

FOR TEN DAYS, THE GATES ARE OPEN AND THE WORLD is fluid. We are finally awake, if only in fits and starts, if only to toss and turn. For ten days, transformation is within our grasp. For ten days, we can imagine ourselves not as fixed and immutable beings, but rather as a limitless field upon which qualities and impulses rise up and fall away again like waves on the sea. Some of these impulses rise up with particular intensity. We may even experience them as afflictions, but they can be the keys to our transformation. Their intensity points to the disequilibrium and dysfunction in us that is in need of transformation.

For ten days, the field of mind is like a painting by Kandinsky. Energy and form float in that field, and we have the sense that we can shape our lives by choosing where to invest our focus and intention, by choosing which forms to follow and which to let go.

This is not a linear process, not something that takes a clear nor even discernible path. Rather it happens in fits and starts. Sometimes it may not even seem to be happening at all. But the gates are in fact open, and if our intention is aligned with this spiritual reality, then transformation also opens as a real possibility, even if it doesn’t manifest itself right away.

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