There is a current, there is a boat, and I am in the boat. I must agree that I am floating along with the current. I cannot go against the current. I cannot get out of this river. The only thing I can do is to agree with where the current is carrying me in the boat.
Question: Are my friends also floating in this boat?
Answer: If we put it this way, then yes. We are all floating in the boat along the current of life, in the river of life. It is best to understand that this is the case. You lived one day, you lived it. Another day, again, And so on, and so on.
Question: So you are not in favor of making plans?
Answer: No! These plans will not come true anyway, and we just get upset because of them.
Question: Are you worried that we will be disappointed?
Answer: It depends on what goals we set for ourselves in life.
Question: That is the question. What goals should we set after all? I am floating in this boat, do I want to get somewhere or not?
Answer: If that is your goal.
Question: If the goal is to reach somewhere, then what?
Answer: Then yes, you need to examine it, is it worthwhile? Is it possible? Can you achieve it? If you can, then yes. And if not, then slowly row at least a little closer to it. But still, calmly. Don’t rush.
Comment:: That complicates things a little.
My Response: Why does it complicate things? Should we rush?
Comment: We are used to rushing. We are used to striving toward a goal.
My Response: I do not think that is reasonable in our time. There are periods when you are simply carried along, and that is it.
Question: So in our words: “There is none else besides Him”?
Answer: Yes.
Question: And that is how I should live?
Answer: The Creator constantly creates new conditions for us, and whether we want it or not, we will still realize them.
To agree with where the river of life carries us does not mean giving up. It means perceiving the river’s flow realistically and going along with it, understanding that you cannot go against it. There are no heroes who can walk against the stream.
And of course, we would like to change something, but that “something” can only be very, very small in our life.
Question: And where is the joy in this? We still want something joyful.
Answer: Joy is not in the act of throwing yourself into the water and trying to block the river, and so on. Joy is in finding special points of movement along your simple, ordinary life path and trying to move through them.
Question: What do you mean? Are special points, joyful points? Is that what you are saying?
Answer: Whether they are joyful or not, you still must pass through them.
Question: And what we are used to and received joy from was in going against the current, going against nature?
Answer: That is your inner feeling. In reality, no one can go against it anyway.
Question: We have repeatedly said that human nature is egoistic and that a person must somehow rise above this nature. Can you connect this?
Answer: Yes, to rise above your nature means to realize that you are still carried by the current of the river. You may wish to get out of it, but you do not even know where or how, or who is waiting for you on the shore if you suddenly appear there with your boat, etc. So I do not know if that is reasonable.
Question: Does one need to know or at least sense what awaits at the end? Rivers flow into the sea after all.
Answer: You need to choose a goal that seems realistic and matches your abilities, and try to reach it somehow. That is, we must understand at some point that we leave the river of life, get out of it, and somehow sailing further on.
Question: So there should be some stopping points along the way?
Answer: Yes, but honestly, in the end, even though a person may want to become some kind of revolutionary in something during life, in the end, he agrees that this is life, and it ends with death, and afterward, it is what it is.
Comment: That doesn’t sound very optimistic. One still wants to set goals so that are not about conquering death, but at least to somehow overcome it internally.
My Response: On the contrary! When you accept this, you gain a special calmness and a special perception of life, and you perceive it realistically. I am not talking about death. I am talking about how you perceive this flow realistically.
Question: If someone who studies Kabbalah for many years sits in this boat, should his behavior be the same, in your opinion?
Answer: His behavior should be what anyone’s behavior is—striving toward his goal.
Comment: So if the goal is to rise above one’s nature…
My Response: If the goal is to rise above your nature, then it is in the boat with you. You should not jump anywhere or swim to the shore; you should not shout: “Hey, who is there on the shore?”—maybe someone is. You should not call anyone. It all depends on your mood, on your attitude toward what you are going through. And in the end, you enter another dimension.
Question: How does that happen? How do I get pulled out of my nature? I am just sailing in the boat, with my idea, our idea let’s say.
Answer: You are not pulled out, you do not go anywhere. It is just that the illusion in which you existed is simply replaced little by little by the second one, then by the third one, and so on
Comment: And I stop paying attention to the hardships of life, age, illness.
My Response: No, that no longer interests me. I think about how to live through it peacefully and then enter a new life.
Question: How can you be above all this? Above this life that presses on us with illnesses and suffering?
Answer: The best thing is to surrender to it and not resist. Because resistance gives nothing, we know this. Everyone around us goes through such stages and ends the same way. Have a benevolent attitude to both life and death.
Question: And this is what it means to “relate the same way to the Creator”?
Answer: Yes, agree with Him, with what He has done to us, that He has placed us within certain bounds and given us this vector of development.
Question: When they say that each person has his own path, what do they mean? His own path to the Creator?
Answer: Yes, nothing else. And there is nothing especially new here, except as it relates to the individual.
Question: So each person has his own path to the Creator?
Answer: Yes, if a person understands this, then it is called that he is acquiring wisdom.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 11/18/25
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