Comment: Winston Churchill is a symbol of an era—calm, confident, determined, with his ever-present cigar. He was not only a great statesman, but also an artist and writer. His aphorisms are still well known today. It is worth listening to his principles of leadership.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
My Response: I do not think we need to sacrifice. It is not sacrifice; it is a rational distribution of strength and destiny when you give everything to the upper governance and, in accordance with it, flow toward it at every moment.
This is not a sacrifice but a very wise, correct, and true decision. Because in this way I lean upon and cleave to the upper governance. What else could there be? Would you suggest that I act according to earthly logic or some philosophy?
Comment: So if I acted for myself, for my ego, that would be a sacrifice: “I sacrifice.” But if I lean on “there is none else besides Him”…
My Response: I believe this is the only choice a person has. And therefore for me it is not a sacrifice, but quite the opposite. To discover that this is how one should act, that is a great gift.
Question: They say: “Relax and enjoy.” Is this in that same realm?
Answer: Yes. Every moment, no matter what happens. You understand how everything is arranged! Everything is for a person’s good—but with this condition.
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
My Response: In truth, there are no unfavorable ones. Some are better, some worse, some threatening, some gentle that make you relax.
Question: But from your approach, are all of them favorable?
Answer: All are favorable, all are necessary, all stem from the root of your soul, and each one corresponds to the next moment that you must correct. Therefore you must accept them as proper and necessary, and respond accordingly.
Every moment is right; it is what you need to receive in life.
Question: Do you receive what you are meant to receive?
Answer: Yes.
Question: And is it precisely because you are aligned with the law that only the upper one leads you?
Answer: Yes. You work together with Him, like in a tango.
One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it… But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
My Response: You should pay attention to them in order to turn them into prosperity, to see in them the hidden help and love of the Creator.
Question: Even if someone threatens your life?
Answer: It is said: even if a sharp sword rests upon your neck, you must still believe it comes from the Creator’s benevolent intention.
Question: Is that even possible?
Answer: I have not tested it myself. But one can come close. In truth, at that level, I do not know. Yet we have gone through many operations, and I felt even in those moments that it was an expression of love, when we were literally on the edge between life and death. I love such moments.
Comment: That is a great love! I was with you then, so I can appreciate how one can suddenly feel that it is an expression of love.
My Response: That is right.
All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honour; duty; mercy; hope.
My Response: Cling to them, constantly develop them, raise them, and reevaluate them.
Question: What is the most essential value for you?
Answer: The most essential value for me is to be myself as I am written in the Creator’s book of fates—to realize myself. That is all. Nothing else is given to a person.
Question: In what way to realize yourself?
Answer: It is by transmitting through myself, in the most optimal and complete way, the influence of the Creator upon the world, as each person must do.
I try to do this through myself, to convey to everyone in this world the existence of the Creator, His plan, His attitude, loving and bestowing.
The revelation of the Creator to people in our world is the subject of the wisdom of Kabbalah.
There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right.
My Response: For that, one must first rise to the level of Bina, the quality of complete bestowal. And from bestowal and love for all, one acts accordingly.
Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential.
My Response: The challenge is to yourself, to no one else. Because besides you, there is only the Creator. You play only on your own side.
Everything that appears before you is a challenge sent to you, and you must lower or elevate yourself to the correct realization of this challenge, since it comes from the Creator.
Comment: For an egoist, “challenge” means to challenge others.
My Response: But there are no others! Whom to challenge? There is only the Creator. This whole worldview is false and deceptive.
Comment: So everything I see, everything that comes to me from the world…
My Response: Everything before you is a play, staged perfectly. And you must play your part correctly, and turn through all the actors to the director Himself.
Question: And through all these actors, is the Creator addressing me?
Answer: Only that.
Question: So that I may turn to Him?
Answer: Yes. And that is all. In this way the whole world becomes an intermediary between you and the Creator. It is that simple—all problems are solved.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
My Response: Exactly, that is how it is. Regard difficulties as opportunities because all difficulties that arise are opportunities for our egoism to elevate itself to the next level.
We cannot afford—we have no right—to look back. We must look forward.
My Response: That is necessary—otherwise you cannot advance.
Perspective means the complete revelation of the Creator to a person.
Priorities mean making the entire world into the link between me and the Creator, between us. The whole world! This is me, this is Him, and the whole world is between us.
Comment: Beautiful, but not very clear.
My Response: In your attitude toward the world, you must reach a state in which the Creator is revealed to you in the world, in every detail of it. And to each detail you relate accordingly.
Never, never, never give in, in nothing, great or small, large or petty, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
My Response: Be unyielding toward your egoism. You must set yourself so as to be steadfast in the struggle, to rise above your animal nature. In Kabbalah this is called “to make a restriction, a screen, and reflected light.”
There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them.
My Response: A person needs a small surrounding society—people he can rely on, at least somewhat. Because even on himself he cannot rely. But on them, if he builds the relationship correctly, he can.
Such a society is essential because the Creator deliberately pushes him, throws him off balance, and he sometimes needs support.
No case of this kind can be judged apart from its circumstances.
My Response: Naturally, what else to act according to? To rise above the situation also means to act according to it.
Question: So is it very natural?
Answer: Yes, that is the right thing.
You ask, What is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory—victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
My Response: It is not a wish, but a necessity—to win.
Kabbalah is the science of victory: to conquer oneself, and through oneself all of reality, so that you compel the Creator to reveal Himself within it.
That is victory.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 1/1/25
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