' 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 Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism
NY: Quality, 1995, p. 71