Take for example the banging of a toe or the body's fighting of a cold. If scaled down to the localized level it's horrific, a complete holocaust of cell tissues and structures and what not... and yet we don't relate to it as a holocaust, as a complete destruction going underway as we go on throughout the day....why?...because our conscious mind is operating on a different (and higher) level of scale... at the end of the day the serrated finger or bruised toe is not Me/I .... rather, just a small component of the "I" that is Me.... the real Me/I is safely perched above the localized "holocaust" and instead relates to it as an inconvenience of sorts....
so maybe that's the need for withdrawal (הסתלקות) sometimes into ourselves, into deeper layers of self-existential consciousness.... thereby reducing the forsaken external layers under attack as mere "shells", disconnected from the real I that we are so vulnerable to having damaged.....
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