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SPIRITUAL DIRECTION
“Water Planet” — by David Chidgey
ourselves to people, and if somebody messes with that You speak too, in your book Jewish with Feeling,
we say, “You hurt my feelings.” All that they hurt is about how Reb Nachman [founder of the nine-
how we present ourselves to the world, but underneath, teenth-century Breslov Hasidic movement] rec-
there is the Self, the deeper self. He wants us to get to ognized that God is always learning, too.
the individuation so that we can say, “The masks we are What do we mean by that? In Kabbalah we call the
wearing may be our working clothes when we go to the Infinite Ayn Sof. This is what Meister Eckhardt called the
office, but underneath we are individuals finding the Godhead. But there is also that part of divinity that has
GodSpark in us.” been coaxing human beings into consciousness here on
this planet. That part of God has been growing with us
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