There are very righteous people, people who possess supernal characters, who are crushed within, within their soul[s], because they do not penetrate into the inner greatness within them, and [because] they do not have a perfect faith in the holiness of their yearnings.
Thus, they do not truly recognize the foundation of light in the breadth of their ideas. And so they go about stooped over beneath the burden of the mundane—of universal foolishness, of “the agitation of fools”—which weighs heavily upon them. And as a result they are placed in a sea of spiritual sufferings. The narrow ideas of the masses oppress their spirit, so that they lack the power to rise to the full height of their own thought, to the tremendous nature of their will.
They must in the end awaken from their slumber, and [despite] all of the peace and respect with which they relate to guidance for the masses, they [must go on their own path in order to] return to God, Who is revealed to them always from their unique windows and crevices.
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If you yearn for the Source of the Torah, elevate yourself and gird your loins to meet that supernal [state of being], which pulses deep in your spirit, together with all of your thoughts and speech, with all of the spiritual and physical obligation that has been placed upon you.
Be a warrior and look directly at the light that is revealed to you from between the crevices.
Orot Hakodesh III, p. 122
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