[The Rebbe] was revealing to them that to live the truth of reality requires the most determined imaginable commitment to a struggle against anything — pride, grief, anger, depression, inner doubt, laziness of being — that keeps you from knowing and burning in God's joy. To become a Hasid is to become a blessing for others. You have to give yourself again and again and again to the great dance of praise and celebration, whatever the circumstances boiling around you.
— Andrew Harvey, Hasidic Tales by Rami Shapiro