Comment: Scientists surveyed over 1,300 people aged 21 and above. Those who had a clear understanding of the meaning of life were happier and healthier than those still searching for it. In other words, those looking for the meaning of life aren’t well.

My Response: The main thing is to find your natural point in which you are already living. Or it might even be in development, but you are within it, and are not floundering without knowing where.

Comment: But you keep saying that searching for the meaning of life is good.

My Response: I am not saying that a person doesn’t understand the meaning of life. One should determine what that meaning is and pursue it. Moving toward the meaning of life, where you understand and know how and what, gives you immense satisfaction, delight, and tranquility, along with great dissatisfaction and internal imbalance.

Comment: Ups and downs.

My Response: Yes! But you derive immense pleasure from all of it. You enjoy the process. It is a “storm petrel.”

Question: And if you experience descent and despair and you wonder if you have chosen the right path?

Answer: But that is better than being an inanimate element. Work in an office and stay at home watching football? Or not? It depends on each person’s values.

Question: So you believe in the studies you have experienced and tested yourself?

Answer: First of all, I do not believe anyone in the world. Because there is no one to believe. We see what is happening in the world. Therefore I trust only myself, my experiments, my universities.

Question: And they say that you find the meaning of life after long searches, adhering to your teacher, and proceeding? Through ups and downs.

Answer: Only in this way.

Comment: I remember you saying that you had such descents that you could not even get out of bed.

My Response: That is natural. But that is the path of searching. You cannot escape it.

Question: And do you call that a happy path?

Answer: Absolutely! Of course! “Exultation in battle,” in the fall.

Question: What would you wish for people embarking on the path of searching for the meaning of life?

Answer: I wish people would enjoy the metamorphoses happening within them. Everything that occurs, everything that boils inside—that is life! Don’t grow old prematurely. Try not to, at least internally.
I cannot climb mountains; I cannot fight the waves of a raging sea. No. But all of that exists inside me, and all of that gives the feeling of life.

Question: So you mean that a person stays young regardless of one’s age?

Answer: Of course!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/23/19

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