Did you read - and answer - yesterday's daily questions?

Michelangelo, who also studied Kabbalah, was once asked where he found the exquisite man who modeled for his sculpture of David. He answered, "I didn't have a model. I had no muse. I simply chipped away the excess rock and revealed what the Creator had already provided."

Start chipping away.

We all have the ability to manifest incredible happiness. We each arrive here with a magnificent soul, but our soul at present is covered with the dust and dirt of layers of negativity that we have accumulated.

By spending time today thinking about — and writing answers to — yesterday's questions, you will chip away until you remove all of your limitations and reveal your true potential.

I've got some questions to ask yourself. Only you have the answers.

What do you really want in life?

What's limiting you?

How do you prevent yourself from expanding and enjoying a bigger purpose?

How do you prevent yourself from receiving more?

It's time to expand your capacity to receive more fulfillment, to have a lot more happiness, more excitement, more meaning, a job that gives you satisfaction, not just work that pays the bills, and a relationship where you feel totally on the same page with your partner.

Sort yourself out today. Spend some time thinking about the questions I posed, and even take out a notebook and think on the paper. Make sure the desire you have to change is not only well-intentioned but also translates into effort and action. In that way, you're guaranteed to experience dramatic shifts in your life.

My father and teacher Rav Berg often asks his students, "What is the definition of stupidity?" And after some thought, he answers, "Doing the same thing you've always done yet expecting different results."

How many of us are stuck in emotional ruts or dead-end jobs or relationships, yet we refuse to try something new, to reframe how we see life, to do things differently?

Today, open yourself up to the possibility that perhaps you've been seeing the world in a way that doesn't leave room for things as they are. Maybe you've been distracted by the way you think things should be. If you try a different road, you may reap different results next time.

We all get to those points in life where we are just so disgusted with ourselves. It feels like whatever we do is wrong, we'll never be as good as so-and-so, life has passed us by, and I'm sure you can fill in a few examples of your own.

When we feel like this, down down down in the dumps, it's important to find at least one thing that's right inside. I know this is hard, just as you can't tell a depressed person, snap out of it. But that's what we do here in Kabbalah, we fight this internal battle against our own internal negative voice, what we call the Opponent. By giving ourselves positive messages, we can quiet that voice.

A great kabbalist wrote: when a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever.

Today, love yourself more than ever.

 

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