Everybody's Holy

Every year when we arrive at parshat Korach, I can't stop thinking that, for the most part, he was right. 'WE'RE ALL HOLY'!! I mean, really, EVERYTHING is holy! G-d made it all. The real trick is to figure out what to do about that. Although it is true that everything is holy and is being imbued daily with the breath of Hashem, the manifestation of that is dependent on the consciousness of the vessel receiving that breath.
There are 4 main classifications of life: 1) inanimate, 2) plant/vegetable, 3) animal, 4) and speaking man. We humans are in a unique position in that we have the ability to know or at least think about the fact that we are children of the divine. Although a rock, as the Ba'al HaTanya states, is being constantly imbued with the letters of which it consists, aleph-bet-nun (even), the rock is limited in its ability to a) think about this whatsoever (at least as far as we know) and b) make choices based on its awareness (if any) of its own divinity. I can just imagine the train of thought of the 'mind' of the rock: "Ok, um, I'll sit here some more today. Gravity, ok, yeah, that's a good thing, pressure, time, ok I get it, so I'll sit here some more, yeah, yeah, that's a good idea."
Our story is quite different. Whether it be the intricate nature of our neo-cortex (you know, that folded-over grey-matter you've seen in all the pictures) or whether it be 'simply' that we have a soul, we are compelled, pulled, driven (at least on a good day) to understand our position in the cosmos, make sense of it all, and to try our best to connect as deeply as we can to it. (author's note: for all of those who don't feel that, please let me know so we can talk.) Let us now return to Korach. If we just for a moment ponder our greatness, and further ponder our ability to ponder that greatness, one cannot help but be awestruck by the potential and creativity that we all have; we're all holy. But, as I previously stated, the real trick is to know what to do about it. Rabbi Ashlag, the famous mystic of the 20th century, is known mostly for the saying, "the desire to receive must be in order to give over or imbue". Korach's vision of pervasive holiness was skewed. It was predicated on the belief that everybody has a right to their holiness. "Where's mine, man!" Korach's understanding of what it means that everybody is holy was really based only on the desire to have his holiness seen and recognized. But holiness isn't a status symbol. If Korach would have really understood his inherit holiness, he wouldn't have needed to argue about it. "Everybody's holy" doesn't mean everybody is the same. And because everybody is holy, that means that no matter where one is, or what one's position is, the holiness one possesses can be made manifest from that place too. Not only can it be made manifest right there, but it MUST be made manifest right there - according to Rabbi Ashlag, that is only reason we have it in the first place. "The desire to receive in order to give over". Our holiness is a gift from our Creator given to us in infinite love. If we see this gift as a right and desire to horde it and suck it up like a drug, we are infinitely diminishing its potential and importance. My ability as a human being to tap into holiness and be aware of it must be for the sake of giving it over - only then we I be able to help manifest the inherit infinite holiness of all.