The Kabbalah Perspective

The Kabbalah Perspective

In Kabbalah, an individual gives up his or her quest for achieving an outcome and leaves the outcome to the invisible reality. In the life of Spirit, we are not interested in goals; we are not interested in bringing things to a head or to a conclusion. These functions belong to the domain of God. What we are interested in is opening ourselves to the invisible reality and letting it intervene for us. God said to Abraham and through Abraham to all of us: “I’ll give you everything, for the invisible reality is an endless resource. It’s limitless, it’s infinite, it’s eternal. And if you open yourself up to it, it will give you everything, but you have to open yourself up to it. And, remember, I am in charge of goals, results, outcomes.” Foregoing goals means accepting the existence – and the abundance – of Spirit.

If we are interested in an outcome, we block the path to healing because we block the invisible world from moving in to help and support us. The invisible world loves us, and it wants to give us everything, but we have to let it operate. If we are goal-orientated, we have co-opted the function of the invisible world; we have usurped the knowledge and power of God.

Intention, then is concerned with “process not product.” This is a shorthand way of framing the essence of the spiritual perspective of the kabbalistic system and of what Kabbalah sees as a key to attaining health. Product means the endpoint or goal. Process means focusing on the practice or technique you are doing. Your intention is your aim to heal, but your attention is on what you are doing to accomplish it. Your task is to focus on the process of taking charge of how you think. You approach the day with the faith that what then comes is what you need: in other words, the universe will support you.

Kabbalah For Inner Peace,
Gerald Epstein, MD