Once Rabbi Hayyim of Krosno, a disciple of the Baal Shem’s, was watching a rope dancer together with his disciples.  He was so absorbed in the spectacle that they asked him what it was that riveted his gaze to this foolish performance.  “This man,” he said, “Is risking his life, and I cannot say why. But I am quite sure that while he is walking the rope, he is not thinking of the fact that he is earning a hundred gulden by what he is doing, for if he did, he would fall.”