Michael Laitman, On Quora: “How do I activate the energy of success?“

Getting the energy to succeed depends solely on the importance of the goal.

That is, if you want to achieve something, you will have the energy to achieve it.

Most importantly, you need to understand what your goal is, and that you have to achieve it, and then the energy for achieving it will come.

You can the also increase the importance of the goal by choosing texts, media, teachers and a group of people that you surround yourself with who share the same goal.

Based on KabTV’s “Blitz of Questions and Answers” on January 6, 2023.

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Comment: Let us say that a person encounters hatred for others for the first time, ie., hatred for friends, and this blinds him.

He does not understand anything and does not know how to act. After going through this state several times, he understands that there is no need to do anything unnecessary here, and it is better to be silent and not interfere with anyone, otherwise you can cause harm.

But at the same time, it is slipping out of his control, and he still wants to vent his aggression. There are times when the mind understands, but the feelings experience something else.

My Response: This is how you go through these states. Trust me, you will pass them and will not remember.

Question: What is the next stage of the Kabbalist’s work? After all, you implement these states somehow.

Answer: I am trying to determine errors, obstacles, and opportunities for correction in these states. This is my work: to search where I can add and not lose the desire for getting closer to the upper force. In principle, this is my concern, fear, and inner worry: how to not lose any opportunity to advance a little more.

Question: What is the feeling of a person who is on the next degree? If we take your Kabbalistic past and the layer that you have accumulated, you perceive these states completely differently.

Answer: I perceive them as states of growth without which I would not be able to be who I am now. Therefore, today I look at others as an adult looks at small children.

Question: Did you remember this force when you were in these states?

Answer: Yes. Therefore, I calmly experience all this in others. I know they have to go through this, and I am waiting patiently: another 10 years, another 15 years. Of course, they are impatient like a small child who wants to be grown up. However, I understand that it will take another 10 years to do this.

Question: How is it possible to tolerate this?

Answer: This is like communicating with children.

Comment: But many do not tolerate children in their manifestations.

My Response: It means that they are unreasonable, ill-mannered parents who were not taught philosophy or understanding of what growth means. This is a problem of education.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. When You Cannot Control Hatred” 4/10/12

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Question: When you were looking for Kabbalah, were you a rather egoistic person that counted on great attainments?

Answer: Naturally. Am I going to waste my life on the cheap stuff? I was interested in a very serious goal: what is it that is worth living for?

To be a millionaire? I’ve seen a lot of people do that. And what’s next? I realized very early—such is my character and such is my fate—that there is no purpose inside this life. Although I love all its manifestations: delicious food, watching nature, listening to music, etc., but above this, not in spite of this, but above this, there was an absolutely clear confidence that whatever is in this life, good or bad, there is no purpose in it.

So where is it?! Our very existence indicates its aimlessness. Every moment we just burn our life and that is it.

So if this is the essence of the existence of protein matter, to live a certain number of years and then turn back into inanimate matter, then go and enjoy yourself. There is nothing else to be invented here.

But what if it is still possible to figure out the meaning? After all, nature makes sense or it should, at least! It cannot be that all this greatness, such a powerful, intelligent system, has no purpose.

So look for it to the maximum, what have you got to lose? That you won’t think all the time about how to stuff yourself with some pleasures.

Allocate the time to find meaning! It is also an occupation, not at the animate level, but a little higher. Of course you will be in relative restlessness, in search. But it still ennobles and gives you a sense of your own importance.

That’s how I was looking for it. It is fate.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Who is He–Laitman?” 3/13/12

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Question: When people living in Israel come to Jerusalem, does the upper light influence them there?

Answer: Of course, I feel it very much. Baal HaSulam also wrote that he was proud that he was able to choose Jerusalem as the place where he lived and taught Kabbalah.

He emphasized that no Kabbalist before him since the ruining of the Jerusalem temple, when the pure, altruistic force disappeared and an impure, egoistic force appeared instead, could establish his own school there.

Today Jerusalem represents the lowest, most egoistic force in the world. But at the same time there is also a positive, altruistic force. Both of them, as if from above, are in a constant battle over this city.

Therefore, Baal HaSulam was proud that he was able to create his own Midrasah (Beit Midrash) and school there. None of the previous Kabbalists could do this since Rabbi Shimon, who was forced to leave Jerusalem. The greatest Kabbalist of the 16th century, The Ari, did not succeed either. None of the great Kabbalists could do this except Baal HaSulam. At the same time, he pointed out that this place is still very egoistic, anti-spiritual, and it is felt through people.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Jerusalem Syndrome” 4/7/12

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Question: There is a parable about a carpenter who arrived in heaven. He met God there and got into conversation. God said: “How I envy you!” The carpenter replied: “Why?” “Because your chairs do not run after you and do not constantly ask: “Give me money, give me health, give me happiness!”

The question is why does the Creator get annoyed with a person who asks: “Give, give! Give, give!”?

Answer: He gets annoyed by the wrong requests.

Question: Is it wrong to say: “Give health! Give me happiness!”?

Answer: No. Everything is a consequence of the good deeds of people. Therefore, if they would have asked to draw closer to each other, they would have had everything. And they ask for what they have to earn themselves.

Question: So, you are saying that, in general, there have been prayers for millennia, people have been praying for millennia, and they were not praying correctly? Incorrectly, actually? Because we do not have much happiness, we do not have much money.

Answer: Yes. We are gradually, gradually maturing over the millennia to the state where we finally understand what the real correction is. And it is not asking for anything, but using what is there already. All the conditions exist to correct the world. And they are all about treating each other with love. If you cannot do it, really cannot do it, then you can turn to the Creator.

Question: Is that a prayer?

Answer: Yes. And there is nothing else to ask for. Give me the opportunity to treat another with love as You treat us!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/15/22

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Comment: There is a Buddhist parable about a professional pickpocket that lived in the city of jewelers. One day, he saw a man buy an incredibly stunning huge diamond that this pickpocket had wanted to acquire his whole life. So, he followed the man, got on the train, and sat in the same compartment. Once the man fell asleep, he checked through all the man’s clothes, but could not find the diamond. When the man left to the bathroom, he checked the man’s bags and suitcases, but still could not find it.

Upon leaving the train, the pickpocket followed him and earnestly told him: “I am a pickpocket, a professional. I never fail. Everything was clean. I followed you to tell you I could not find the diamond I wanted to steal from you.”

The man answered: “I saw you right away. When I was buying the diamond, I realized you would follow me, that you wanted this diamond. So I hid it where you would not look for it.”

“Where is this place?”—exclaimed the pickpocket.

“I hid it in your pocket.”

In conclusion, the “diamond” you seek is right next to you, closer than your breath.

We always look for these “diamonds” somewhere out there. All the time. We dedicate our lives to it, fighting, hating, searching. But in fact, it is so close. It is right here—in our “pocket,” in us.

What is this “diamond?” And why cannot we find it?

Answer: Find the real you, do not look for something in others; it is not there. Everyone has their own. One must find one’s own—one’s soul, one’s most intimate. And then a person will find everything in life. But if you look for it in others, you will never find it. It will not be yours.

Question: What does it mean to find yourself?

Answer: To find yourself is to find your connection with the Creator, the innermost point in the heart. This is this great, big, special stone.

Question: Is this connection with the Creator, this diamond, found in every person?

Answer: In everyone. This is the point of connection with the Creator. This is our personal diamond.

Question: Must everyone find it?

Answer: Of course.

Question: We always fall into despair. We keep looking for it, but we cannot find it, we search, but do not find. Must we face constant discouragement and make all attempts to find it?

Answer: Calm down, because this diamond is in you. You only need to find the connection with the Creator within yourself.

Question: When does the wisdom come to a person that everything is in me?

Answer: It is a result of experience.

Question: And the experience, must it be bitter?

Answer: It takes time. A couple of decades.

Question: And when I come to the fact that everything is in me, will I be at peace?

Answer: Naturally. After all, you have found the central point of your world—where the Creator and you exist.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/15/22

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Question: What is luck in spiritual work?

Answer: Luck, Mazal in Hebrew, is from the word “Nozel – drips.” If drops of light, photons from above, drip on you, then you are lucky.

Drops of light illuminate your path a little, ignite a spark in the darkness, and then you can at least see something. Although, drops of light give points of sparks, lights up and goes out, lights up and goes out, nevertheless, from them you get some idea, not of the picture that is around, but of how you should act in it. It is most important!

Based on this, one can begin to annul oneself in front of the group. This is the biggest problem! We hear about it, we read about it, but we are not able to internally understand it in order to begin to annul before the friends. That is why the beginning of implementation is so difficult.

And before that, you do not understand at all: “Could it not have been done at least a couple of years earlier? For ten years I was sitting and listening, but I was just listening!”

What does “heard” mean? For the first couple of years, it passed by the ear at a distance of ten centimeters, then at a distance of five, two centimeters, and, finally, it began to enter me. But by the time it came from the ear to awareness and from awareness to the heart and you realized that you need to do something, ten years have passed. It is not too long.

Question: What is this barrier? What is it?

Answer: The barrier is in the stupidity of our egoism. It does not want to hear anything! This is not ordinary egoism; the sharpness of the mind of a person and one’s special grasp will not help here. The ego will find any reason not to do it.

But this is very important information that a person receives about himself and about his qualities.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Body Strives for Constant Rest” 3/11/12

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Question: Is there such a phenomenon as the Jerusalem syndrome?

Answer: The fact is that people who come to Jerusalem fall under some kind of special excitement. Psychologists and psychiatrists talk about this, and artists even claim that there is a special yellowish light in Jerusalem.

In principle, it is psychologically difficult to withstand this. You are walking through places where a saint who represents something special to you once walked. I have seen people faint walking through these streets. Imagine, a Christian walking along Via Dolorosa and what he is going through!

But we are talking even about a person who has absolutely never been interested in religion and he does not care about anything at all. He arrives in shorts, in sandals on bare feet, with a camera around his neck, and he still feels that there is something here—some kind of incomprehensible feeling.

In addition, the uniqueness of this place is felt through the kind of people who live there. The people of Jerusalem are very special, tough, I don’t even know how to say it. This city stands apart from the rest of the country.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Jerusalem Syndrome” 4/7/12

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