How do we distinguish between a dream, an imaginary world, and between the real world? We don’t have that ability. Only when a person attains complete emptiness, and that happens only on condition that he strives forward with all his might, in the most desperate of situations and after years of disappointments and perpetual reawakening of aspirations for the goal, which gradually becomes clearer, only then, and gradually, grows in man the realization that only the Creator can change his situation.
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