Ayin...

"Think of yourself as Ayin [Nothing] and forget yourself totally.

Then you can
transcend time, rising to the world of thought where all is equal:

life and
death, ocean and dry land.

Such is not the case if you are attached to the
material nature of this world.

If you think of yourself as something,

God cannot
clothe Himself in you, for God is infinite.

No vessel can contain God, unless
you think of yourself as Ayin."



Rabbi Dov Baer, the Maggid of Mezritch
in Daniel C. Matt
_The Essential Kabbalh: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism_
NY: Quality, 1995, p. 71