Question: What am I ascending toward as I move from one dead end to another?

Answer: I ascend so that these rungs of ascent create the desires, qualities, and properties within me that will allow me to reveal the meaning of life. It does exist! It is just that I do not see it, feel it, sense it, or know how to formulate it.

And as a result of these ascents, when I crawl from step to step like a small child on hands and knees, trying to climb up, I develop my intellect and feelings to understand the meaning of this ascent. And suddenly I begin to understand, as if this meaning is found between the rungs.

Question: Is there an end to these rungs?

Answer: It is somewhere very far away. Practically speaking, there isn’t one. And why should there be if I begin to sense that this process itself is life?

Life is precisely in finding disappointment at every step, the need to find strength, and a precise aspiration, a goal. Otherwise you lack the drive—the what for, the why, and for what purpose, or the ability to determine what constitutes a correct goal or right decision, And so on.

In other words, as you ascend these rungs, you begin to feel yourself growing and creating.

Question: What is it that drives me? Is it to get past this dead end or to draw closer to something?

Answer: No, you no longer even wish so much to reach some final rung. You begin to feel pleasure in the fact of traversing them. Between the rungs you begin to feel the wisdom and clarity inherent in them.

Question: And do I begin to sense this governance?

Answer: This is what precisely is meant by “From Your actions I will come to know You” (Mi maasecha hikarnucha)—that from the rungs themselves, from how they are created for you, and the fact that you were created simultaneously with them yet intended to rise above them—from all of this you begin to attain the Creator of these rungs. And this is the essential thing.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 4/27/26

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