Nachman of Breslov

“ But without the aspect of prophecy the imagination cannot be clear and repaired, and then the imagination mixes and confuses the man with false faiths. And this is like the filth of the snake, for mixing and confusion of the imagination, which mixes and confuses with false faiths, this is like the filth of the snake, for all the seers and magicians, they are all via the power of the imagination that is not clarified and repaired, which mixes and confuses them with false faiths of folly and falsehood which is the filth of the snake. ”

“ And completion of the knowledge mentioned above is in the aspect of the lung, for the main source of the knowledge and the brains is via the oiliness of the body. For the intellect ignites like a candle via the oiliness of the body, and the lung raises up oiliness of the body to the brain via the breathing of the lung. ”

“ If Rabbi Akiva said this in his generation, all the more so in this present generation.
For when the rebuker is not fit to rebuke, then not only does his rebuke not help but he also causes the smell of their souls to stink up who hear his rebuke, for his rebuke arouses the bad smell of the bad deeds and bad characteristics of the people he rebukes. Like when some object that has a not-good smell is resting, as long nobody moves it, its bad smell is not detected. But by moving the object they wake up the bad smell. ”