the essential thing...

"The essential thing,
however,

is the training to habituate one's mind and thought continuously ,

that it ever remain fixed in his heart and mind,

that everything one sees with one's eyes --

the heavens and the earth and all that is therein --

constitutes the outer garments of the Holy One."



Rabbi Schneur Zalman
_Tanya_
Translated by N. Mindel
New York: Kehot, 1973, p. 225
quoted in Edward Hoffman
_The Way of Splendor:
Jewish Mysticism and Modern Psychology_
London: Jason Aronson, 1992, p. 109