אות - פב

"By this I know that You delight in me, that my enemy does not shout triumph over me" (Psalms 41:12). By this — that my enemies are not wicked, for Tzadikim contend against me — by this I know that You delight in me (161).

161. RAK: Likutay Moharan 283.

Concerning fears and terrors: a person fears and is frightened most of the time by various things, or by people who cannot harm him at all. And the matter appears to be that only at the very end — when the person departs and lies upon the ground with his feet toward the door (162) — then he will have true composure of mind and will look at himself and see the truth: that all the fears and terrors he had from certain people who stood against him were all foolishness and vanity. And in vain he had fears and terrors from them — for what can a man do to him? And similarly regarding desires: then he will see clearly how in vain he consumed his days in vanity and in such foolishness and confusions — and who compelled him to this etc.? For only then will he see the truth clearly and completely.