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Question: If we take the upper governance, the Creator, and look at the human world, at these eight billion people as the Creator does, is there a specific place a person should be, and what is his place, in general? Or is there nothing that specifically belongs to a person?

Answer: That is pure psychology. It is possible to throw a person anywhere, and he will get used to it and will consider it his home.

Question: Does it mean a person can make this step and say, “This land is my home”? Can he move from place to place and live this way?

Answer: Yes. As soon as I realized that I had to move to Israel, I immediately moved from Belarus to Lithuania. I found myself in a different atmosphere.

Question: To make it easier to leave?

Answer: Yes. The first question was “When are you leaving?” In Belarus they were afraid to say this. That is all. Everything was quite simple.

Question: Meaning, a person has to accept what already currently exists and embrace it?

Answer: Yes, cut off his past.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/17/25

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Question: Is it possible for relationships between people to be built only on good things? Between friends, between husband and wife, without quarrels, divorces, and suffering— only good relations, is that possible?

Answer: No, everything is attained only from destruction. Therefore, a person who has not gone through all these periods of “ups and downs,” rises and falls, is unable to appreciate it. He will not cherish such relationships.

Question: So you even support the feeling of destruction in the connection between people? As if everything is falling apart?

Answer: Of course. It is necessary for them to experience these feelings too so that they guard their relationships and do not allow them to reach such a state.

Question: But those feelings would hang over them, right?

Answer: Absolutely. How could it be otherwise? Two egoists! Could they perform some kind of operation, cut their egoism out of themselves and become sweet, harmless little idiots?

Comment: That would not be good.

My Response: It is impossible! We meet, we bump into each other, and then, having despaired, we begin to understand how life can be built when you strive only for good relationships. You no longer need, as in youth, to be sometimes in bad relations and then in good ones, and so on, but only in good ones.

Question: But that comes through the ups and downs at a young age?

Answer: Of course. Without that, nothing can exist. You must accumulate this arsenal of all kinds of negative feelings and states, and then you will avoid them.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/14/25

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The Creator created only one state, called the world of infinity. All changes happen only within us. We exist in that same world of infinity, yet instead of perceiving infinity, we perceive only ourselves.

Once, in my perception, I was united with all other souls and felt the world of infinity— boundlessness, eternity, and perfection. Then my state, my perception, changed; I began to feel that I exist in a dark, corrupted world, full of suffering, problems, chaos, pressure, and limitations.

Things kept getting worse until I reached the lowest state in which I felt myself existing among others like me, in our world, in the surrounding reality.

All this occurred solely within me, in my subjective perception of reality. Nothing changed outside. It is as if I take off my glasses and see no one around, or put them on and begin to see a completely different world.

Thus, our inner qualities changed from the level of the world of infinity to such an extent that instead of it, we now perceive this world, which bears no resemblance to the world of infinity. Yet we can return to that very same state, called the world of infinity, where everything exists in upper harmony, eternity, and perfection, where the light reigns, the good and the benevolent.

What do we need for this? We must reach the perception of that state by awakening it within ourselves. The world of infinity is concealed within us, behind many layers of concealment. Gradually, as we move from a deeper concealment to a lesser one, we reveal the world of infinity.

The stages through which I return to the perception of infinity are called worlds, concealments (“world,”  “Olam” is from the word “concealment,”  Ha’alama). Step by step, this concealment diminishes, and I rise above it.

This means ascending the ladder of degrees, climbing the rungs of the worlds, rising above concealment, and feeling more and more of reality.

How do we do this? We awaken the state called the world of infinity. Together, we read The Book of Zohar, which describes the connection within the world of infinity, and this very desire awakens that state within us.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/2/10, “The Book of Zohar“

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Comment: An ancient Chinese wisdom says: “Always look on the bright side of things. And if there is none, polish the dark ones until they shine.”

My Response: Because behind everything in the world stands the upper light. And where it seems to you that there is darkness, you must “polish” yourself until that phenomenon begins to shine. Because in every phenomenon, within it, there is the upper light.

Question: So I polish myself in order to see that it is not darkness, but light?

Answer: Yes. Wipe away your egoism, and you will see that the world around you consists only of simple upper light.

Comment: “The trick of life is to die young, but as late as possible.”

My Response: Yes, because being young means always striving forward. Youth is not about years. You can live 200 years and remain young, or be an old man already at 20, extinguished.

It all depends on your aspiration! If you have a yearning to attain the meaning of life, then you are always young. That is the most important thing. It depends on you and on the society you are in, your environment. But under no circumstances should you let yourself be extinguished. That is very important.

Question: Your teacher was called “the runner.” Was he really young for you?

Answer: Next to him, I was the old one. There was a forty-year difference between us. He was born in 1906, I in 1946. He was very strong, powerful, energetic, constantly striving forward, and in that, he was young.

Comment: “The temptation to give up will be especially strong right before victory.”

Answer: Yes, that is always the case. When a person is about to reach the goal, strangely enough, a weakness appears: “Why? What for? I am tired. No way. Nothing.”

At that moment, he must understand that he is being tested for his desire toward the goal. To achieve it, he must add something new, an even greater aspiration. Inject more drive, passion, appreciation of values, the importance of the goal. And then he will reach it.

Question: So he is practically close, but in front of him is a mountain he cannot climb?

Answer: Yes. That is why he must increase the importance of the goal now, to climb, to run up that mountain.

Question: And how does that happen?

Answer: It is the mobilization of inner strength through the importance of the goal.

Question: But logically, shouldn’t a person have more and more strength as he gets closer?

Answer: No, it is like a runner; at the last stage, his strength seems to vanish. That is when he must activate a new reserve, a second wind. A person learns this, and then he succeeds.

Comment: “A friend without flaws does not exist. If you seek flaws, you will end up without a friend.”

My Response: Of course. One must understand this and love a friend with his flaws. And even if these flaws are in your friend, they are actually yours.

Question: So looking at a friend, you are really looking at yourself?

Answer: Yes. You must understand that these flaws are within you.

Comment: But we do the opposite. We generally criticize the world around us.

My Response: Exactly, we criticize. But in truth, we should perceive everything within ourselves. It is very hard!

Comment: Most businesses that fail are those created by friends. Later, they just hate each other.

My Response: They are not educated. That is the whole problem, humanity is not taught how to interact correctly with one another. And we cannot do anything about it.

Each person is such an egoist! And they continue to be raised that way. The more egoism you have, the more you supposedly have the chance to succeed over others. We do not understand that, in the end, true success means being in the right relationship with others.

We have already reached a state where the world is burning out from egoism. It can no longer move forward egoistically. All our grand dreams and everything else are fading.

And only one thing remains—how to go on existing? This is possible only if we begin to value our connection with one another. Within that connection, we will discover purpose, dimensions, an entirely different world.

Question: Can you give the main advice on how to preserve a friendship to the end?

Answer: You need to understand that the bad you see in others is all within you. There is nothing bad around you—only yourself. You should strive to correct yourself until you see a beautiful world in everything around you. Then you will find yourself in the spiritual world, in the Garden of Eden. Turn the hell within you into paradise and you will see that you are in paradise.

But if you do not change the hell inside you, it will seem to you that you are in hell.

If you see hell in another, it is in you. Change yourself, and you will see that you are in a wonderful world.

Comment: “When they speak of my virtues, they rob me. When they speak of my flaws, they teach me.”

My Response: Yes, that is true. It is said in Kabbalah that a friend is someone through whom you discover your flaws. Because in this way, he helps you advance.

Those who praise you weaken your path; they fill you with an unnecessary sense of superiority, perfection, and so on. They do not help at all.

It is among those before whom you feel your negative qualities that you truly develop.

That means a friend is not someone with whom you feel comfortable—“I feel good with you, it is pleasant,” and so on. No, to the contrary. True friends are those who seem to push you away, and you feel you must make an effort to come closer. Those who mobilize you to rise above yourself, those are your true friends.

Comment: “An invisible red thread connects those destined to meet, despite time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break.”

My Response: Of course. Because from the beginning, we are all connected to one another. Everyone already exists in their own state. And if, as a result of the correction of the common soul, we must somehow meet each other, that is already predetermined by our spiritual genes.

So there is nothing accidental about our meetings or separations. Do not worry.

The main thing is that at every stage of your development when you meet others, be as kind, friendly, and welcoming as possible. Then you will never make a mistake and will always move in the direction of your soul’s correction.

Nothing is accidental. All our meetings are predestined. It is destiny!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 12/9/24

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Question: I work as a high school teacher, and I am deeply concerned about the problems of teenagers, which cause many of them drop out of school. I would like to give them the foundation for the kind of education that you talk about. But is it possible for me to do this in the couple of hours a week allotted to me for each class?

Answer: Obviously nothing can be done this way. Why not devote half of the time that a child spends in school to useful activities, that is, learning how to build himself, his future family, the world, a new society, how to build proper relationships with close ones and strangers, with friends?

This is what education is; it is supposed to build a human being. It is not enough simply to give birth to children; we also need to mold humans out of them, to shape them. But today, this does not happen. The school does not form a human, but a chemist, a mathematician, a physicist, a specialist in some field, and that is all.

But this still does not mean to be a human being. There is no such subject in school as “the building of a human being.” It is necessary to raise this issue and bring it up for national discussion; after all, it concerns all of us and touches every family. Both children and parents suffer, as well as the ministry of education itself, which is unhappy with such a state of affairs.

First of all, it is necessary to decide how to transform the ministry of education into an upbringing organ instead of an educational one. This is the greatest national problem.

Question: Can I accomplish anything during the two hours that I have with the children?

Answer: The problem is also that you do not know what to do. You do not have a program that would guarantee that, within a year, one piece of the mosaic that makes up a human will be built. The upbringing of a human being is an art that must be learned. It must be a program on a national scale.
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From the Program on Radio Station 103FM, 1/8/16

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Question: Can you give any principle ordinary people should live by?

Answer: The principle is very simple—do not worry. That is all.

Question: So all these career ladders are worthless?

Answer: We can see it all crumbling before our eyes.

Question: And the search for the meaning of life?

Answer: The search for the meaning of life is to find a point of balance with the Creator where you understand that everything must go according to His plan. And you ultimately resign yourself to His plan  and float along calmly.

Question: Basically, this whole life path, everything, everything should come down to what you just said? Is it the search for this point of contact with the Creator?

Answer: Yes, find that current, join it, and sail along it.

Question: And when does the kind of calmness that you radiate now come? After all the running, searching, or after touching something, some kind of truth? When?

Answer: I think it might come after 20 years of studying Kabbalah. And if you are in the right environment, even sooner. Because you will hear from everyone, from there and from here, and so on.

Question: And then we return to all these principles, then they become real? Calm, unhurried, do not make God laugh with your plans.

Answer: You do not interfere with any of your plans and actions. You simply live, trying to grasp the flow of life more deeply.

Question: What do I grasp, anyway?

Answer: You grasp what comes from the Creator and carries you away. This is actually time. The river of life.

Question: Time, what do you interpret it as? For me, it can be the ticking of a clock, the passing of time, or aging.

Answer: No, no. It is just a current. A flow. And you feel like you agree with it, are ready to fall into this current and let it carry you.

Question: And is this the right principle, the right way to live your life?

Answer: Yes, you cannot do anything else anyway. Conversely, wisdom lies in submission.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/20/25

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