No Depression

        Not with depression, not with fearfulness, not with sentimental weakness must we turn to the divine light, but with a clear knowledge that what flows from the depths of our heart to approach God is a natural, complete and healthy faculty.  It is more than just a natural faculty—it is the basic, natural faculty of our soul.  It emerges in us from the soul of the Life of all worlds, from the soul of all existence, of all being.          The more we increase knowledge, increasing spiritual illumination and a healthy physicality, so will this wondrous light shine in us, a lamp on the path of our life.        Orot Ha’emunah, p. 80


[Translated by R' YD Shulman]