The King’s Palace of Illusion

I’ve been re-reading a book I have on the Kabbalah, The Way of Splendor by Edward Hoffman. Over the weekend I ran into this passage, attributed to the Baal Shem Tov:

A king had built a glorious palace full of corridors and partitions, but he himself lived in the innermost room. When the palace was completed and his servants came to pay him homage, they found that they could not approach the king because of the devious maze. While they stood and wondered, the king’s son came and showed them that those were not real partitions, but only magical illusions, and that the king, in truth, was easily accessible. Push forward bravely and you shall find no obstacle.

The beliefs that shape our lives the most, that limit us the worst and give us the greatest freedom, are those we know are true. What magical illusions are holding you back? What do you know is true?

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