Have you ever watched a bird soar toward the heavens and wistfully longed to fly? How thrilling it would be to flap our arms and soar upward to feel the rush of the wind against our face and glide gracefully through the air.
Unfortunately this dream of flying can never be fulfilled. No matter how hard we try we won’t succeed since the force of gravity which pulls everything to the center of the Earth is constantly working against us.
As we know everything in the physical world has a parallel in the spiritual world.
Just as in the physical world there is a strong gravitational force that pulls an object down in the spiritual world as well there is a strong force that pulls a person down. Man is engaged in a constant battle between his guf his lower self and his neshamah his higher self. His natural inclination is to be drawn toward his guf.
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