When You Feel Stuck
„The one who gazes at great contents will always feel impatience, in his immersion within the straits of smallness.”From Shemonah Kevatzim 5, 280
We all desire a broad and deep life, but are forced to compromise on a wearing routine and on a daily life built of countless ordinary moments. The Rav's advice is not to flee from the "small" life but to change the manner of looking at it, and to look at the root of what you are doing now, that is, to ask yourself why I am really doing this thing, not just what I am doing in practice. When a person learns to connect every small action to its root: to the livelihood and the family that is built from it, to the person he is becoming, to the values he is trying to live by, even a technical task receives depth, and the routine ceases to be perceived as a punishment and becomes a process of building the great life he dreams of. Greatness does not mean an infinity of powerful moments, but the understanding of the meaning of every small moment as part of a whole fabric whose foundation is faith and the path of truth.
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From the community archive of Mishpetei HaRav Kook — studying Rav Kook's teachings since 2011.