Comment: When a person is in a group, he relaxes and it seems to him that he has already achieved everything. But when he goes outside the group, for some reason he gets a lot more trepidation.

My Response: Naturally, because he is no longer in a safe place where the group supports him. He understands that he is internally arranged in the same way as others. This feeling of herd mentality is required by a person at any level.

Question: Which condition is more important for a person?

Answer: To feel that you are in a group and at the same time outside of it and you need to constantly enter it. That’s the best part.

Comment: But you said that it’s better when a person feels worse than others. Everyone is organized, everyone is working great, but he does not measure up to them.

My Response: Everyone should have a subjective feeling that I’m worse than the others, all the others are in spiritual greatness, the whole group is a system of infinity and perfection, and I’m in it like some kind of underdeveloped organ that happened to be in it, and I have to quickly correct myself, and connect with everyone else.

I need to curry favor with my friends so that they don’t throw me out; I must please them in every possible way so that they accept me as one of their own. Moreover, I do it consciously. I’m really trying, I want and need to feel that way.

Comment: But it is impossible for a person to exist like this for a long time.

My Response: Why? Constantly. At the same time, he feels his perfection, perfection not at the expense of himself, but due to the fact that he belongs to the group, due to its greatness.

Question: When does a person begin to feel that they are in safe hands?

Answer: Only by annulling himself and dissolving into his friends does he feel that he is in safe hands and feels great on the account of the group, because he was able to annul himself before it. That is, we constantly have two opposite feelings in our spiritual state, when one determines the other.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call, The Greatness of the Group” 6/19/10

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