There Is Benefit in Suffering
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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