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The third stage to which Hebrew mysticism invites us--each in our own way--is the experience of unity consciousness as the guiding principle of our lives.

Love is a radical redrawing of boundaries and complete revisioning of the whole notion of self-interest. A revisioning is, of course, a deepening of perception.

In the ecstasy of the festival the pilgrim reaches the consciousness which moves him to cry out, "If I am here all is here."

The core intuition of all the great systems of the spirit is that love and eros are captured best by the image of light.

The Kabbalists were often referred to as mistaklim or chozim, roughly translated as the Looker or Seers. To get a handle on what that might mean, just imagine how we feel when someone looks at us with erotic, loving eyes.

Of course, to remind another of their full beauty you have to be fully aware of your own. The Baal Shem Tov has a wonderful teaching on the biblical mandate "love your neighbor as you love yourself."