Tikkun Olam

"God is everything ... a perfect luminous essence. But even God wants more, to experience more, to give... so God creates a vessel, a container that can receive this gift of God's pure light. This divine light pours into the vessel. The vessel of course can't contain the magnitude of this light and it shatters, destroying the vessel and scattering its broken shards in a big bang of creation. Now man's job is to locate and gather these shards to make the vessel, our world whole again. Now the Kabbalists call this fixing, this mending, they call it ... TIKKUN OLAM... fixing of the world. Now any act of goodness, kindness that contributes to that idea is considered tikkun olam. It's an extraordinary idea that we can restore what has been shattered. In fact it's our responsibility to try... each of us, now with all the pieces and destruction... God has left us hope."

- Bee Season


To find the pieces of the glass that was shattered
To find our way back to our Source
To the core of this energy
This life
To God
But not to rebuild
But to realize the God in each piece
For there is no brokenness
No damage
No distance
Nothing that fear can take away
That pain can severe
That joy can separate
Nothing
Because in the pieces is the Whole
In each piece
The World
All is One.

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It is in this silence that God speaks to me again, in the water, through the dishes, through the texture of steel, the coldness of metal, the heaviness of plastic. They say that to obtain enlightenment, one must learn to discard thought, quiet the mind, descend into that desolation that ends all desolation. But when thought itself is silent, when in thought itself the mind is still and there is no chatter... there, too, can we find God.

And then,

in that instant where soap and water touch, where palm meets water and water meets eye and eye meets heart, that shard of glass, that piece becomes whole. Again. Of itself.

This too is God.