Nothing Is Impossible: Becoming One

"Nothing's Impossible!" - The tag line for Barbra Streisand's inspiring film, "Yentl."

If you've read my first Kabbalah for Beginners blog entry, "So Who Are We Anyway?," you'll remember my analogous story about the big vessel, how and why we were broken up into tiny individual vessels (souls) but ultimately remain one vessel. The point of this analogy is that we are all One and that remains true pretty much regardless of your chosen form of religion or spirituality. We are all born of each other and in each other's images, as well as in our creator's if that is our chosen belief. Kabbalists believe that our main goal is to work together to recognize this consciousness and apply it to our every day lives. Imagine if for just one full day, all of us were able to turn a switch in ourselves that ended all selfish behavior. Imagine if for just 24 hours we decided, as a collective whole all around the world, that love is the answer for everything and to only give out the kind of energy that we'd like to receive in return, to focus solely on giving instead of any form of taking whatsoever. All of us. Just for one day. In that one day, all wars would end, wouldn't they? Our personal enemies would become our friends. And we'd make friends with our inner demons. There would be world peace for those 24 hours. We'd be back in the Garden of Eden.

Impossible! That's the first word that springs to most of our minds when this ideal of unity comes to mind, despite the physical evidence we see every day that we are all born of each other to begin with. Still, the idea of every person around the world successfully accomplishing something as small as selflessness for something as short as 24 hours, or even 1 hour, seems entirely unrealistic and impossible.

But then, so many things in our world have seemed impossible. The world is round. Impossible! The world is flat. ... I've built an airplane. Impossible! The law of gravity prevents flight. ... We tend to believe what we are told as opposed to what we see, much less looking beyond what we see, looking past our physical limitations to the energy that creates all around us. And that is the point of the exercise at the end of the "So, Who Are We Anyway?" blog. There's a lot we don't see.

Kabbalists believe that for everything that is and will be created, at some time in the future, we will have to act contrary to its physical nature. The law of gravity, for example. We were able to defeat it when it seemed entirely impossible. So many things in this world that we have deemed for ages as "impossible," one day out of the blue becomes possible from the minds that think outside of the box, that do not allow themselves to buy into the "illusion" of our physical world and its limitations. To understand that there are no limitations.

Believing this is having this consciousness and that is a very powerful tool. It helps us to make the "impossible" struggles of our every day life seem much easier to get through. Hell, if the world is round and we can lift planes off the ground and put men on the moon, no, it is not "impossible" to make that lunch meeting. No, it is not "impossible" for you to just be yourself on that date tonight. No, it is not "impossible" to do those extra reps at the gym. No, it is NOT impossible for us to recognize collectively that we are One. No, it is not impossible.

This goes right along with the energy that is available this month -- joyousness, laughing to keep from crying. We think we have problems and therefore are sad, but the reality is that we are sad and therefore have problems. The energy you omit is the energy that you attract. We must accept that when we flip off someone in traffic, we're only flipping off ourselves. We must take responsibility in our power to change someone's day by simply smiling at them even when we don't feel like smiling, and guaranteed in return, our smiles will become genuine. We hold the key to not only our own personal happiness, but more importantly, everyone's happiness.

World peace begins in the mirror. We have to act contrary to our separate bodies, our physical nature, to realize that we all our made of the same "stuff" inside. And we're all imbued with the light of the Creator, making everything possible.



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