Question: How did you manage to diminish your pride in front of others?

Answer: This work continues until complete correction.

We know that even RASHBI’s disciples, who began to study the upper worlds and write The Book of Zohar from their revelation, initially felt themselves hating each other. That is, it is constant work! Knead and knead yourself all the time! And not by your own strength, because you do not have your own strength! Only if the Creator helps.

And He will help if you obligate Him, make Him! You will indicate what and how you want Him to change, prove to Him that only He can do it. Then He will. Otherwise, it will not be according to your desire!

Question: Does it mean that a person who has crossed into the spiritual world is faced with an even greater problem of pride?

Answer: Of course! Every time! How can there be an ascent up the spiritual steps if an even greater egoism is not revealed beforehand each time?

Question: How did you protect yourself so that this would not happen?

Answer: For many, many years I have constantly convinced myself that there is nothing else in the world.

And in fact, what else is there in our world? Food, sex, family, some knowledge, a little fame, a little wealth, a little power. This is all good because it gives a person some kind of sense of existence. But, in principle, this is one big lie, which, just as it came to a person and organized itself as a shell of all his desires and properties, will go away.

Who am I? The one who exists in this shell. I have to understand my root. This is the most important thing to keep in mind. Without this, I am nobody and nothing. Without this, I will not be there tomorrow, and there will really be nothing left.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Entrance Into Spirituality” 8/18/11

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “How does spirituality benefit a person?“

When we attain spirituality, we attain eternity and perfection, the purpose of our lives.

Reaching such a state requires developing positive human connections. We then discover true equality, security, happiness, confidence and friendship.

When we start the spiritual journey, we can find ourselves overcoming problems such as depression, loneliness, anxiety, stress, environmental problems, and we gain the tools to solve problems in the family and society in general.

Even if we manage to live the best materialistic lives possible—making a lot of money, buying whatever we want and making ourselves as comfortable as we can—then our lives will still end within certain limits, whether in 70, 80, 90 or even 100 years, but they will end.

The spiritual journey, however, is an invitation to achieve fulfillment via the happiest, safest and most balanced way of life, through which we come to feel our next life—giving birth to the perception and sensation of a whole new reality in the process.

We are never lonely on the spiritual path. We experience how spirituality is for everyone together. While the path has its ascents and descents, we feel a kind of intoxication when we rise spiritually, and we then start attaining the next spiritual degree.

What is the next spiritual degree? It is a state where everyone feels as a single whole. It is not a feeling where we each feel our tiny worlds and individual lives.

We are each like cells in a massive organism. In our corporeal lives, detached from spirituality, we only feel the tiny life of the cell. But when we rise to the next spiritual degree, we feel like parts of a single common organism, and we feel the life of that entire organism. Such a life is eternal and perfect because it is congruent with the trajectory of bestowal and love, nature’s very own qualities.

Attaining spirituality is a process of connecting together the broken parts of the big global organism we are parts of into one great whole by inviting nature’s force of love and bestowal as an adhesive between our connections.

We then experience the life of the whole, an organism that exists forever, sustained by the eternal qualities of love and bestowal. It is called “the soul,” and there is one soul for all.

Based on KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Advertising Image of the Spiritual” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on July 16, 2011. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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We must understand that the Creator’s script involves a lot of actors on both the left  and right side. And we need to walk along the middle line quietly, calmly, heading for the goal in front of us, and thinking only about it. Therefore, it is not necessary to enter into any discussions and clarifications.

All people are the Creator’s creations and must reveal the true purpose of their life and advance toward it. Our organization, Bnei Baruch, shows everyone an example in this, the middle line.

Every person and every current does their work that is organized by the Creator in order to eventually attract all people to His goal. We need to try to be above all these currents, and calmly, intelligently, in relation to everyone, move along our path in the middle line toward brotherly love and the Creator.
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From a Conversation at a Meal 7/14/23

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Comment: Sometimes you say that after you there will be extensive material in the archive, and then the group can go on by itself.

My Response: No, it will not work! It will be the same as all over the world, the same farce.

If a certain mass of people from among my students do not reach the exit to the upper world, then all this may fall again and die out. The world will plunge into darkness again, and will be unable to reach the upper degree in a kind, smooth, fast way. It will plunge into decades of wars, terrible wars of annihilation: shoot, burn, and clean up the Earth.

Question: You say that the teacher does the work for the students. What do you do to help students, what elements do you use?

Answer: I act the same way as parents who do everything for their children, but this is hidden from the child’s awareness. That is why you do not see or feel anything yet, you are at the degree of a child.

Question: Maybe you will reveal some secret?

Answer: There are no secrets here! I am not hiding anything. You hide everything from yourself with your own brains. The whole of nature, the whole universe, is open. What can I do? Should I put different eyes in you so that you can see?

A small child who really wants to become an adult is comforted by the toy bought for him. He plays with it, he sees himself in it; it matches him. What can he do with a huge car or with some incomprehensible system?
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. You can’t Advance Ahead Without a Teacher” 7/23/11

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Question: What discussions did you have with your teacher?

Answer: He repeated the same thing a hundred times. It entered me gradually, until eventually at least something got in. Therefore, today I understand why everything is happening in the world, I understand the situation.

As long as I live, I want to pass on my knowledge to others and thereby relieve some moments of humanity’s existence. I hope I can do it. What else do I live for? If I received some knowledge and it suddenly starts to be really useful today, how can I not share it?

Humanity perhaps today still does not understand much, except for a small part of people, but it is approaching this very quickly. I am sure that our knowledge will spread without any connection with me; it does not matter to me.

Gradually, people will see that everything that happens to them today is necessary only so that they unite. And after uniting, they will enter a new level, a new degree.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Balance or Ballast” 8/31/11

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Question: Do you think anti-Semitism will change?

Answer: No, it will not change until the complete correction of humanity because man’s natural egoistic nature makes him a hater of the Creator.

If the point in the heart is present in a person, which is a part of the Creator from above, then he hates this point, but does not know why. He invents all sorts of other reasons, like, for example, Jews steal, plunder, lie, and use me. They have long noses, long ears, or something else. All this is not clear.

Question: How can we use this?

Answer: You cannot. We have to tell man why he exists. Everything will pass. There is not much time left now. Humanity will receive a few more blows on the head and will start to come to. I hope it will happen over the next few years.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Hatred of the Jews” 5/14/11

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Question: According to Kabbalah should we treat mentally unstable people or is it better to leave them alone?

Answer: In general Kabbalah does not have an objective to treat a person. If one wants to study Kabbalah, he has this opportunity. Nowadays the wisdom of Kabbalah is becoming open to all. It does not matter who studies it, a Jew or non-Jew, a healthy person or one with psychological problems; the Internet is open for all. Feel free to study.

There are no limitations to study Kabbalah, it cannot be closed for someone or graduated based on certain conditions. It cannot be this way. This cannot be because every person has to achieve the goal of his creation. He cannot remain at that animal level where he exists. This is the spiritually inanimate level.

Comment: But Kabbalah attracts many people with a predisposition, for example, for schizophrenia.

My Response: This is natural! If you enter the psychology or psychiatry department at any university you will see that half of the students there are with such inclinations because they are attracted to this!

Whereas people with an aptitude for technical studies whose brains work “1+1=2” go into technology. People who are inclined to grow not up, but down become educators, teachers.

I do not want to insult anyone; I am just talking about people’s inclinations, what they want to deal with: some of them with metal, others with human material, a third kind with children, a fourth kind with stars, and so forth.

Basically, these social and psychological inclinations do not matter for our inner spiritual development. They are not reflected whatsoever in spiritual development. Such a difference between people exists only at the corporeal level.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Brain Of a Madman” 7/12/11

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Comment: You say that pride throws a person away from spirituality. Two or three times, he is given a chance, and then he is either discarded or enters. But pride is not under a person’s control.

My Response: It means we need to work on it. How it will work out is another matter.

When you work on yourself, you begin to understand that pride is not under your control, but what is, is that you can start screaming to be saved from it.

99% of people drop out from Kabbalah because of pride because it is the only factor that prevents them from advancing.

Pride is the inability of a person to bend his head before others, to make himself nothing, and to do what is indicated. Despite the fact that you do not want to, cannot force yourself, and have excuses, you still have to do everything through “I cannot,” and approach people whom you are unable to approach, and from whom you are repelled. Meaning, all your egoism, your feelings, and views crumple up like a piece of paper.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Entrance to the spiritual” 7/30/11

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