A Person Drawn By Nature to Elevated Matters

by Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook

There may be a person who is drawn by his nature to elevated matters. When he is sitting idle or is involved in material things, he is not so propelled to supernal yearning for supernal matters of an exalted spiritual nature. Still, when he comes to learn something of a finite nature, then immediately his mind is in turmoil.

This is because the light of his mind—which shines as well in its activity in regard to matters of a finite nature—awakens his power of consciousness. Then immediately his yearning for uplifted and universal matters is activated. He experiences great longings for elevated and universal matters, and as a result he cannot be satisfied with small and limited things.

Kibbutzim Mi’ktav Yad Kodsho II, p. 53