Comment: Astrid Lindgren, who wrote the popular Karlsson-on-the-Roof series of children’s books, suddenly said this phrase in a very adult way: “All is vanity of vanities and chasing after the wind. We are all the same. We all were nice kids once. The kids have grown up and will die. What does it matter if your book has been translated into 50 languages?”

Where does this wisdom come from, and why does it come with age: “All that I have written, these 50 languages into which Karlsson has been translated, all this, what is it? This is my life, and I do not even think that this is some kind of end result of my life. I am not holding on to it.”

Does a person come to this only with old age, as King Solomon once did?

My Response: Yes. That is what remains of a person. Everything else already remains in people.

Question: Do I leave with “I did everything I could, and it will remain for people”? Is this the correct formula?

Answer: Yes, it is the correct formula. Because the next generations are going through what you left them.

Question: Let us imagine that this came not to an older person, but to a very young one. Some teenager has already come up with the idea that “everything is vanity of vanities.” Is it good, or is it, in fact, bad?

Answer: It usually comes to people who need to hear it. They somehow process it in themselves.

Question: Does it mean that if it comes to a young man, then it is only outwardly that we see that he is a young man, and maybe his soul is already mature?

Answer: Yes, probably, he already has some preparation for this. Otherwise, he would not have heard this.

Question: If it comes to him at that age, did he come into this world for something?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/16/23

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