There is no dead-end in nature. The dead-end that it sets for us are only for us to rise above, overcome this barrier, and develop further.

Dead-ends are only at our level, like steps. How does a small child climb stairs? He crawls with difficulty on all fours, and so on. That is why we are given these disappointments, ascents, and so on. They make us grow.

Question: So human growth occurs precisely by overcoming these dead-ends by sensing them?

Answer: By sensing them? A person cannot get up; one crawls up!

Question: So should I feel that there is a dead-end?

Answer: Yes, you must understand that the obstacles before you are the steps of the ladder of ascent.

Question: So where am I going? Here is this ladder. Where do I go, from one dead-end to another?

Answer: Toward understanding the meaning of life. Toward attaining the meaning of life.

Question: What is it? I am ascending toward something. Why am I climbing from one dead-end to the next?

Answer: I ascend so that these steps of ascent will create such desires, properties, and qualities in me through which I could reveal the meaning of life. It is there! But I do not see it, I do not feel it, I cannot  formulate or sense it.

As a result of these ascents, when I crawl from step to step like a small child on all fours, trying to climb, I develop the mind and senses within myself to understand the meaning of this ascent. And suddenly, I begin to understand, as if this meaning is located between the steps.

Question: Is there an end to these steps?

Answer: It is very far away. It is almost not even there. But why? If I start to feel this is life. This is life, when at every step you have disappointment, the need to find strength, the need to find the exact aspiration, the goal. Otherwise, you will not have the strength: what for, how, why, what will you consider the right goal, the right decision or not, etc….

That is, as a result of climbing these steps, you begin to feel yourself growing, creating.

Question: What is it that drives me? Is it to get through this dead-end or to get closer to something?

Answer: No, you no longer even want to reach any final step. You begin to feel pleasure in going through them. Between the steps, you begin to feel the wisdom and clarity of these steps.

Question: Am I starting to feel this governance?

Answer: This is called “Mi Maaseha Ikarnucha“—”From Your actions will I know You.” From the steps themselves, from how they were created for you, and at the same time you were created in order to rise above them—from all this, you begin to attain the Creator of these steps. And this is the main thing.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/8/25

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