“Every day when the sun shines its light upon the dew, the dew goes against it’s own nature. Because its nature is to fall from above to below, but when the sun shines upon it, the dew rises up.”
– Rabbi Shlomo Ephraim, Orach L’Haim, Section 35
It’s no secret that people aren’t perfect. We have secrets we’re afraid to address. And at certain times, in certain situations, we can’t help but fall to pieces. Similar to the way water falls, once the force of gravity takes effect, it’s quite literally all downhill from there. Liquids are heavier than the air so they fall. That’s what they do. And similar to the way raindrops fall without being able to pull themselves back up again, people’s bad habits are sometimes heavier than their own ability to overcome them.
At least, that is how it works when we’re operating in “liquid form.”
We tend to just do what comes naturally to us, both for good and for not good. Habits are like falling rain, they just keep moving in the same direction as they started until a gust of wind blows them off course. The hyperbolic wind here doesn’t end up doing much good because anyway the rain still ends up falling.
So what is one to do when they are stuck in a habit that they can’t get out of? They’ve fallen, hit the ground and have no way to uplift themselves in their current state.
Upliftment Through Evaporation
Whatever decisions and bad habits got you to the point where you fell down as low as you did are not going to get you back up again. But the good news is that there is a way because, although you fell down like rain, you don’t have to stay in liquid form. You can shift. You can evaporate.
The secret is to let go. Let go of the need to feel the pain so deeply, let go of being the person you think you are supposed to be and let go of the mistakes borne by generations of people before you. Here are 4 simple steps for breaking free of bad habits.
What can you do to evaporate your entire existence, rise up even higher than you were in the first place, and truly live?
2 comments
Profound and sweet. Of course my mind goes to the cloud that is getting heavier and heavier with the evaporated detritus of humanity.
Hi Jim,
Way to take the analogy to the next level! What do you think is the root cause of the detritus of humanity?