Just as There Is Arousal from One Person to His Fellow

270 - Just as There Is Arousal from One Person to His Fellow Just as there is arousal from one person to his fellow—for example, when they see that one says requests and prayers for forgiveness with arousal in a broken heart, then his fellow is also aroused from him, because he is aroused from his fellow and begins to look at himself and is also aroused, and begins also to say requests with arousal of the heart—so too, within the person himself there is arousal from him and within him, that he is aroused from his own words. That is, he says requests and supplications with arousal and cries "woe to me," and cries "woe to me," and within that he is aroused from this and begins to look at himself: "Where am I, and who is crying so? Is it not woe to me, to me actually?" And he begins a second time to cry "woe to me, to me precisely." And even though at the beginning it seems to him as if he is also saying in truth as is proper, with all this, afterward they see the difference between before and after, and understand [demonstrating self-arousal through personal prayer leading to deeper introspection].