If I do not feel another, truly another, outside of myself, and do not perceive myself within him, then I do not perceive the world at all.

Question: So does that mean I must always see myself through someone else?

Answer: Through someone else, yes.

Question: And the fact that we see ourselves as being so ugly now, why is that?

Answer: Because we close ourselves off, isolate ourselves in, limit ourselves, and we have no desire to see anyone but ourselves. In other words, I see mirrors all around me, mirrors, nothing but mirrors. Reflected in them is nothing but my face, distorted, twisted, full of contortions and grimaces. I see nothing but that. “That” is my world.

Question: So, if I do not let anyone in, and I do not venture out anywhere, does that mean I appear hideous? Does it mean that this, this egoistic state, is my world? It is just me, all alone?

Answer: I see only myself.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 4/7/26

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