nothing but the Way itself.

Birds chirping, dogs run, mountains are high, 

valleys low. It’s all perfect wisdom!

The seasons change, the stars shine in

the heavens; it’s perfect wisdom.

Regardless of whether we realize it or not,

we are always in the midst of the Way.

Or, more strictly speaking, we are

nothing but the Way itself. — Taizan Maezumi

Birds chirping, dogs run, mountains are high, 

valleys low. It’s all perfect wisdom!

The seasons change, the stars shine in

the heavens; it’s perfect wisdom.

Regardless of whether we realize it or not,

we are always in the midst of the Way.

Or, more strictly speaking, we are

nothing but the Way itself. —

Taizan Maezumi

All souls are subject to the trials of transmigration

All souls are subject to the trials of transmigration; and men do not know the designs of the Most High with regard to them; they know not how they are being at all times judged, both before coming into this world and when they leave it. They do not know how many transformations and mysterious trials they must undergo; how many souls and spirits come to this world without returning to the palace of the Divine King.

The souls must re-enter the Absolute Substance whence they have emerged. But to accomplish this end they must develop all the perfections, the germ of which is planted in them; and if they have not fulfilled this condition during one life, they must commence another, a third, and so forth, until they have acquired the condition which fits them, for reunion with God. — 

         The Zohar 

Everything is linked with everything else down to the lowest ring on the chain

Everything is linked with everything else down to the lowest ring on the chain, and the true essence of God is above as well as below, in the heavens and on the earth, and nothing exists outside Him. And this is what the sages mean when they say: When God gave the Torah to Israel, He opened the seven Heavens to them, and they saw that nothing was there in reality but His Glory; He opened the seven worlds to them and they saw that nothing was there but His Glory. He opened the abysses before their eyes, and they saw that nothing was there but his Glory. Meditate on these things and you will understand that God's essence is linked and connected with all worlds, and that all forms of existence are linked and connected with each other, but derived from His existence and essence.

G. Scholema

The Indivisible Point ...

"The Indivisible Point, which has no limit and cannot be comprehended because of its purity and brightness, expanded from without, forming a brightness that served the indivisible Point as a veil"; yet the latter also "could not be viewed in consequence of its immeasurable light. It too expanded from without, and this expansion was its garment. Thus through a constant upheaving (motion) finally the world originated." 

The Zohar