Hotziyah mimasgayr nafshi l’hodot et-sh’mecha.
Free my soul from prison,
that I may praise Your name. (Psalm 142:8)
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My soul is imprisoned by fear, by rigid forms that I have inherited, and also by constricting forms that I have made for myself. My soul is imprisoned by my conditioning, by perceived limitations that have been place on me and also by forms that I have placed on myself. My soul is imprisoned by habits of judgment, expectation and reactivity. When my soul is set free, I return to my true depth and breadth; I expand into my Divine identity, and my very being becomes a praise of the One.
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