Comment: Several studies have been conducted about the search for meaning in life with varying conclusions about it being beneficial or stressful.

My Response: The main thing is to find your natural point that you already live in. It may still be in development, but you are in it, not floundering about, not knowing where to go.

Comment: But you always say that searching for the meaning of life is good.

My Response: I’m not talking about a state where a person doesn’t understand what the meaning of life is. He must determine what this meaning is and move toward it. Moving toward the meaning of life—when you understand and know how and what, this gives you enormous fulfillment, pleasure, and calmness, together with enormous dissatisfaction, inner imbalance.

Comment: With falls and rises…

My Response: Yes! But you receive tremendous delight from all of it. You enjoy the process. This is the “proud Stormy Petrel.”

Question: And what if you have a fall, despair, when you suddenly think: “Did I choose the right point?”

Answer: But that is still better than being a non-living element, working in some office and sitting at home watching football. Or not? It depends on the person.

Question: Do you trust only the research that you yourself have gone through and verified?

Answer: First of all, I don’t trust anyone in the world. Because there is no one to trust. We see what is happening in the world. Therefore, I rely only on myself. On my own experiments. On my universities.

Question: And they say that after long searches you find the meaning of life, adhere to your teacher, and go? With falls and rises.

Answer: Only this way.

Comment: I remember you once told that you had such descents that you couldn’t even get out of bed.

My Response: That is natural. This is the path of searching. There is no way around it.

Question: And you call this a happy path?

Answer: Of course! Absolutely! “The exhilaration of the battle,” in the fall.

Question: What would you wish people who enter the path of searching for the meaning of life?

Answer: I wish people to enjoy the metamorphoses taking place within them. Everything happening inside them, everything boiling—that is life! Don’t grow old ahead of time. Or at least try not to, internally.
I can’t climb mountains, I can’t struggle with the waves in a raging sea. No. But inside me all of this exists, and all of this gives the sensation of life.

Question: And then a person remains young regardless of age?

Answer: Of course!

Question: Do you yourself feel young in this sense?

Answer: In two ways. On one hand, everything inside me is boiling. On the other, I know how to balance it. Meaning, my ship is still holding steady on all the waves.

Comment: Yes. This I can testify to.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 12/23/19

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