That is the Question

by Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook

How important it is for me to thoughtfully clarify my spiritual state!

[I have to consider] how much I am supposed to struggle against my feelings and the progression of my thoughts, which lead me constantly to the supernal aspect, to the elevated and the exalted, so as to gaze with holy elevation, with the foundations of supernal ethics, with the soulful breadths of the world of Emanation—whereas obligation pushes me to aspects of this-worldly action?

But to what degree can the obligation of this-worldly action push aside the august spirit? That is the question.

Chadarav, p. 128