Six Months Later...

I remember Leonardo DiCaprio once talking about how the best thing he does to further his acting skills is walk away from it altogether for several months at a time. Something about just living life, people studying, self-discovery ...something about all of that made the study of his craft even stronger when he returned to it because he knew more about himself, about people, about the world.

It has been six months since my last post and though I have never stopped actively practicing and applying Kabbalistic wisdom to my every day life, I did halt my studies for all of that time. It was only last week that I really began to dive in again.

I needed to walk away from studying Kabbalah any further for a time because, for me, it got to a point where after nearly ten years I was studying it for the wrong reasons. Not that there is a wrong reason to study Kabbalah, but it was just wrong for me at the time. Hence the new mantra above: We share the ground, but not the road. My path is not your's.

A lot of us study Kabbalah for the same reason that we go to the gym or, say, take up pottery: We feel something is missing from our lives. The many books of Kabbalistic wisdom teach us that the everlasting void can only be truly filled by the Light of the Creator. But for some so desperate to have that void filled, we forget the difference between the books and the Light. It's not the seminars, it's not the books, it's not the teachers that are filling those voids. It's the Light. And what is the only thing that can connect you to the Light?

Yourself.

I had to strike out on my own and get to a point where I could feel my connection to God even when I was not reading the books. A point where I could love my body even when I didn't get to the gym as many times as I would've liked. A point where I could see my flaws and things I wanted to change, but still feel good about myself.

These are things that I learned in the last six months. Would I have learned it if I continued to use the books as my source of empowerment? Probably not.

So why return to it?

If not to make you feel better about yourself, why study Kabbalah?

To bring you all the things you want out of life?

To make you a better person for other people?

To keep you grounded and on the right path?

To further your knowledge of how to apply the wisdom to your structure?

Sure, but those things are really just the icing on the cake.

I had to get to a point of understanding that my sole intention (or soul intention, lol) for studying any religion or form of spirituality should always be to bring myself closer to God.

Everything else follows.

Welcome back to Kabbalah Curious, thank you for joining me on my walk and happy new year!


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