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“For when wisdom will come into your heart It is clear that all we need to know about living a happy life we have within us to discover. Happiness and fulfillment are not unattainable goals. On the contrary, they are very attainable. All one has to do to attain them is to do the right things to attain them. This sounds so simple, and indeed, it is. What gets in the way that prevents us from achieving our goals of happiness and fulfillment is the very unfortunate and real presence of our own inner lack of discipline and loss or moral direction. If we ourselves do not do what we innately know is right and good for us, then who will. If we do not stand up for ourselves then who will. If one stand up only for oneself then what is one? Moreover, if one does not take this to heart now, then when? The secret of living a good life is found within the heart. However, often our hearts become clouded by emotion and our minds become foggy with confusion. There is an old saying that too many cooks spoil the broth. This means that the more complicated something becomes the harder it is to manage. How true this is of life, yet how few are those who pay attention? Simplicity is the path to happiness. More does not mean better. Indeed the more one has, the more one must carry. Why do we choose to live life carry heavier and heavier burdens upon our already breaking backs? Why do we choose to make matters more difficult for ourselves by complicating our lives with unnecessary problems and acquisitions? The more one has, the more one has to loose, and in this world of ours it is the natural way for all that is acquired to someday be lost. One day something is in our possession and the next day it is not. This is the natural order. Everything that we hold dear by natural earthly standards is at best only temporary. Expending energy to foolishly try to keep that which is fleeting is wasteful. So much time and so much effort are wasted upon so little. It is no wonder then why so many fail to find fulfillment in life. How can one be full when all that one seeks to fill oneself with by nature dissipates and eventually disappears? No one can be truly filled with something that by nature cannot be filling. This is the most simple of clear truths, and the one most clouded in the heart blinded by foolish desire and foggy in the mind seduced by ridiculous justifications. Heaven indeed offers to us the Divine Hand of help. Yet, this Hand is not the working of miracles. On the contrary, the Divine Hand teaches us how to live properly by following the guidelines for human character, morality and ethics. When we live in accordance to Heaven’s directives, we find that everything in life goes well for us. It is, as if, creation was programmed to respond a certain way to those who themselves act in a certain way. Indeed, this is so; Heaven has programmed nature to respond positively to those who live in accordance to the Laws as ordained by Heaven. Not for naught do we study Torah daily. For our daily Torah study teaches us about life, in both the natural and supernatural realms. Torah is life and life is Torah, this is the beginnings of truths. One who can know and embrace this will see this wisdom in it. Sometimes words cannot properly express the inner wisdom. A poem speaks in symbolic language to create a picture within the heart and not necessarily to create a concrete rational image in the mind. Yet, the few short words of a poem can relate a message that thousands of words of explanation may not grasp. Torah is a poem. It is the poem of Life. Know Torah and know life, it is that simple. No words can describe fully what it is I mean. How sad for those who only read words. Silence your running mind. Still your desirous heart. Be calm, still and quiet in the moment and let the inner Voice of Torah rise up within you. Let is be heard in your inner ear. Be quiet now, listen.
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