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Question: There is a well known parable regarding judgment taking place above—to hell or to heaven. The famous preacher’s turn comes; he is calm, and suddenly he is sent to hell. He asks, “Why to hell?! Right before me, a reckless driver was sent to heaven.” He is told: “What were you thinking? Everyone was asleep at your sermons. Meanwhile, when he was driving people, everyone was praying.”

How should we relate to this? Should we be led to prayer while we are alive; how should this happen?

Answer: We are being led. If we strive to reach a connection with the Creator, then all sorts of obstacles and conditions are put to us, and we involuntarily see that we cannot fulfill these conditions in any way, only if we get serious help from above.

Question: Does this mean that if we strive to connect with the Creator, then we can be grateful for all these things and obstacles?

Answer: For the stick.

Question: You keep saying, “Kiss the stick that beats you.” Then we kiss it? Otherwise what happens?

Answer: Otherwise we move along with our egoism, the way a fish swims, in such twisty ways.

Question: How should we treat everything that leads us, but is not yet directed, to the goal of creation, to prayer?

Answer: We have to push each other. We have to give an example. We need to shake things up a bit.

Question: How can I, an ordinary person who does not strive for the goal of connection with the Creator, someone who strives to live calmly and simply on our earth, also relate those misfortunes and troubles as things that should lead me to prayer?

Answer: Naturally a person does not want suffering, prayer, or anything.

Question: And how should I relate to this? Should I run away from them?

Answer: Of course. It’s best to run away from them and that’s what everyone does.

Question: This means I can run away if I’m not striving for anything, but I just want to live this life well on this earth?

Answer: In this case, “There is no need for suffering, and there is no need for rewards.”

Question: And what is the advice to such people?

Answer: The advice to such people is to try to live in peace, or even lower, quieter, and calmer. Try to go through life like this.

Question: Is this in order for the waves to pass over us?

Answer: Yes. But this is fate. There are some people who want it; there are those who disagree with this and those who disagree and yet with a couple of blows, they then agree.

Question: So one way or another, these blows bring a person down if he is here and wants to live his life here?

Answer: It depends on the root of the soul.

Question: And what is your advice to those who strive for the Creator and for connection?

Answer: For them, the most important thing is to get closer to the Creator, and it doesn’t matter in what way: either through getting a couple of blows on the way or any other way.

Question: So, one way or another they will and should treat these blows as help?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is it correct to say that this parable is intended more for those who are directed to the Creator?

Answer: There is always suffering, but if they are not critical and are instead ordinary everyday sufferings, etc., then they are always good.

Question: Is this the way to relate to them?!

Answer: Yes.

Question: What happens if I start to treat them this way?

Answer: I mean the suffering that does not distract from building a right life or a right connection with others and with the Creator. If there are too many of them, then this is a different sort of suffering.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/4/22

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Comment: Surely you always have a certain position that you have to soften and adapt to the public.

My Response: Just like with children to whom you only say what they can understand and explain with language, gestures, facial expressions: “This is how this works, and this is how that is. Let us see together. See how it is connected. If I click here, what is happening there?” And so on.

That is, you must come closer to them. Of course, you have a huge supply of what to tell them for the next, say, five years, but you work gradually. At the same time, love for them and recognition of one single space and mass when you connect with them controls you and does not allow you to make a mistake.

Comment: But sometimes, when raising a child, they say: “Let him fall, prick himself, burn himself, do not tamper with him.”

My Response: Yes, it happens. But still, you do it with the knowledge that it will teach him even if he is harmed to some small degree. But he will remember this lesson and will gain in the future so that later he does not get into a situation where instead of a small burn there is a huge explosion.

You consciously allow negative feelings from certain circumstances imprinted in your child’s mind if there is no other possibility. Naturally, this is how we learn. The same is true in our spiritual accumulation of all kinds of events, qualities, and dependencies.

Comment: But many also have this position: “We will talk to them when they are hit on the head. Then they will understand us more.”

My Response: No! This attitude is not out of love. When I love my child, I want to protect him in advance, and if I give him the opportunity to feel something, then this is controlled by me, it is within the framework of his upbringing. I do not leave him as if I had left him somewhere in the forest and let him educate himself: if he crawls home, good and if not, then not. This is an unreasonable approach.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Is it Always Necessary to Tell the Truth?” 9/5/13

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Comment: When we have problems, you recommend contacting a specialist, such as a lawyer and so on.

My Response: Yes, on the corporeal level we must use the tools of our world and at the same time make spiritual corrections.

Therefore, if someone attacks me, and I have some legal opportunity to oppose him, then I definitely do it through a lawyer. This is how it will be in the future as well. This is work at the level of our world.

Comment: But there are countries where problems are solved in a completely different way, not by legal methods, but by force.

My Response: If these are legal forceful methods, then yes, and if they are not the legal ones, then no. If we scare people, then this is no longer a correction.

Question: Why is this correction if we act through lawyers?

Answer: Because through lawyers, you teach a person to bite his tongue, treat others differently, and force him to understand his mistakes.

At least, this is how we should act and not have a physical clash. We cannot afford it, this is not the spirit of our organization.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Solve Problems?” 9/18/13

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Question: If you look at human life, most of the time we are silent. What is the spiritual root of this state?

Answer: Obviously, we can express a small amount of our emotions in terms of time, momentum, and other parameters.

Personally, I do not see anything vicious in silence. On the contrary, as they say, “silence is golden.” This is a sign of cleverness, inner work, and introspection of a person into himself. So, silence is encouraged more than chattering.

Silence can also be the transmission of information, depending on the kind of silence.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/23/22

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