Question: What happens in the intermediate state, when a person has not fully felt the power of bestowal and has not fully completed the work with his egoism? He is neither here nor there.

Answer: Neither here nor there is the most complicated, suspended state. It is necessary to do everything as soon as possible to pass it; there is nothing left to do.

Question: But this whole path is still a transition between the two worlds?

Answer: I understand that this path is unpleasant, but you cannot get away from it.

This is the path where you simultaneously discover both descents and ascents, and yet you cannot balance them, supplement one with the other, or justify them. That is why the years of internal struggle and adaptation to new spiritual conditions are very difficult. I see this in my students, but unfortunately, I cannot help them more than what I am doing.

Just like a teacher at school, can he do something instead of the student? The student is obliged to go through his school years, absorb all the material himself, and complete the required number of tasks, tests, and exams because otherwise he will not know anything at all and will not be able to go out into life.

He must do something. Otherwise, he will have to deal with huge gaps. At least he graduates from school and has an idea of ​​what biology, zoology, botany, geography, history, and mathematics are, at least something, somehow.

You can finish school and university, and, in general, know nothing. Maybe, you will not need all this in your life except for a general understanding of what is happening.

But in spirituality it is different. If you do not know the laws of the universe, if you fail to apply them to yourself, then the upper world will not be revealed to you. After all, you attain it to the extent of your understanding, your power of adaptation. You only reveal what you can practically work with.

Like a child, to whom only a small part of the surrounding world opens up. He does not understand what exists above him. He is interested in his toys and his mother; here is his car, something big that is moving, and this is his world. Everything else, something much bigger, especially in terms of quality, like connections between people and the like, he does not understand at all. He knows that this is his nanny, this is his mother, this is his grandmother, and the fact that there is some kind of connection between them, that there is some kind of life going on behind them, all this is not yet for him.

If we do not grow out of this state, we will not reveal anything. In the spiritual world, if you have not developed the power to understand, realize, and interact inside yourself, then you stay at the same level. You cannot grow automatically. You grow only to the extent that you open the world with your knowledge and abilities.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. All Suffering Has a Purpose” 2/11/12

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Does unconditional love exist between two partners?“

Unconditional love can exist between two partners if they work on it and attain it.

Love is based on mutual concessions, yielding to one another, and finding joy in doing so. When we love our partner, then we have no demands for any special attention or care from them. Instead, we enjoy the pleasure we receive from sacrificing ourselves for their sake.

Such pleasure is similar to the feeling of satisfaction that we get when we give something to our children. However, our children are naturally closer to us because we feel them as parts of us. With our partners, though, we are separate in our desires and opinions, but by correcting the love between us, then we can bridge that separation.

By nature, we focus mostly on our own desires with little regard for our partner’s. In other words, we relate to our own desires with a higher level of importance than to our partner’s desires. In order to shift from this nature-given self-centered state to a state of love, we need to merge our desires so that they adhere as a single desire. In the wisdom of Kabbalah, this condition for achieving love is described with the phrase, “Make your desire like His, so He would make His desire like yours.” Such love discusses the love that we achieve between the creation, which is a desire to enjoy, and the Creator—the source force of love, bestowal and connection. By adhering our desires into a single desire, when we prioritize fulfilling the desires of others over our own desires, we then reach a state that Kabbalah describes as “husband and wife, and Divinity between them.” That is, we require the force of love itself to enter our connections in order for us to be able to truly love others, to aim to benefit others outwardly with no wish to receive anything in return.

Achieving such love requires connection-enriching education. That is, we need to place ourselves under the influence of learning, guidance, exercises as well as social, cultural and media influences that describe the nature, need and importance of reaching a state of love.

We need to understand that the use of our loved ones and families in order to primarily benefit ourselves ultimately brings about neither joy nor love. The sole way of finding true and lasting fulfillment is to learn how to love correctly—where we prioritize benefiting others over self-benefit, and where we become willing to concede our own desires for the sake of fulfilling the desires of others.

We can bring joy to others and to ourselves by giving endlessly. This altruistic modus operandi would act as a source of everlasting fulfillment. That is, by aiming ourselves in the direction of fulfilling others, we place ourselves into a cycle that positively boomerangs back to us with feelings of absolute and eternal love, as well as eternal life. Instead of trying to consume everything for ourselves, we can bring life to everyone around us with our love. Doing so would enable us to ascend to a higher dimension where we experience Heaven on Earth—an eternal and perfect life.

Regarding our partners, we should shift our focus from searching for love to building love. We need to stop expecting people to act in extraordinary ways toward us, and instead find partners who share a common goal and understanding of what true love is. We can then enter the process of learning and exercising the achievement of true love together with our partners.

Based on “A New Life” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on July 30, 2015. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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Spiritual movement means a new change of form. We should still explain the meaning of time and movement that we come across in almost every word in this wisdom.

Indeed, you should know that spiritual movement is not like tangible movement from place to place. Rather, it refers to a new form. We denominate every new form by the title “movement.” exactly like a corporeal being that some part departed from it and moves about from place to place. Hence, the new form is called “movement” (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 9, Item 33).

We are talking about the force that determines the form of the existing world. It changes all the time, and therefore, the world is changing and so are we in this world. But it is almost impossible to explain how this happens since the very essence of the existing matter is changing, not physically but spiritually.

In spiritual matter, desires change as the basis of its existence. The meaning and the purpose of the matter is changing, and thus we feel only the consequence of this.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 2/12/23

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Question: Cinematography was introduced in the early 1900s. What did it give to humanity?

Answer: All inventions of humanity are carried out by order from above, from the general global mind, the Creator, who leads us with the general control signals of nature from top to bottom to ever greater integration, globalization, mutual complementation, mutual guarantee, and connection.

Therefore, along the way we develop ideas, which seem to come to our mind, that help us achieve greater communication with each other. This is what causes all our actions.

They may even seem to be leading us not straight to connection, but in a completely different direction. This happens in order to reveal minus from plus and plus from minus. Any human action, no matter how positive or negative it seems to us, leads only to universal globalization, dependence, integration, and mutual guarantee.

We are moving toward a state in which we will not be able to feed ourselves, keep ourselves warm, or clothe ourselves unless we are completely connected by absolute unity. And when we discover this connection, we will not be able to manage it. How can I manage billions of connections all over the world at the same time?

This is what communists found out when they discovered that by governing the state according to the system in which everything is dictated from the top down—to whom, how much, where to be delivered, how, and by whom to be transferred—they got such a complex machine that could not be processed by any computer, especially at that time.

Nowadays we see that we are also not coping, that all this is a single continuous disorder and nothing more. How can we manage such an economy? Anyway, humanity has come to this question because the integral connection leads us to it.

And it really does not matter who invented cinematography or the Internet. Everything happens according to the upper plan: to bring us to the general unification where we feel the need to attain the upper single mind and desire because otherwise, we cannot exist. This will be the real internet.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Invention of Cinema” 2/11/12

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Question: There is a well-known parable about a man who prays to God every day to help him win a lot of money in the lottery. Finally, God could not stand it, opened a window in heaven, and shouted to the man: “Listen, I’m willing to help you, but you at least have to buy a lottery ticket.”

It turns out that we want to be happy in this life, to win, but we don’t even buy the lottery ticket. We are doing something wrong. We are wasting our energy in the wrong place.

Tell me where and how? How do I buy this winning lottery ticket?

Answer: You should plead, attempt, and work on getting closer to mutual love for each other. There is no other way.

Question: Do we waste energy buying other tickets?

Answer: We invest in all kinds of things. Of course, we cannot be in this nature of love and mutual dependence. But we can ask for it. Open not even a window but a small crack, and shout into it that you want to love others.

Question: Is this buying a ticket?

Answer: Yes.

Question: When you buy a ticket, you pay for it. What is our payment here?

Answer: Being ready to strive for love for everyone.

Question: Is this what is required of us? Is this the winning ticket?

Answer: Yes, only this.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman.” 1/26/23

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We should transfer the external earthquake into an internal shaking of the heart, that is, we should feel that everything depends on us, and this is how we will be able to correct them. If we all connect together, we will calm all the earthquakes, the earth will not be able to shake.

An earthquake occurs when tectonic plates shift relative to each other because breakage occurs between them and there is no connection. But if we humans connect with each other, then the entire earth will connect and become stable. There will be no more shocks. Otherwise, we will end up on a planet that is shaking all over.

We just need to get closer to each other with our hearts, nothing else is required. Bringing hearts closer together is what will correct the world.

To come to the congress with an open heart means to be ready to take into your heart every friend from every corner of the earth from where he came, as well as all those who for various reasons could not come. My heart is ready to accommodate everyone, and in the end, all of humanity.

The heart of every person is able to accommodate the whole world. When we hold the whole world in our embrace, it will not be able to be shaken by earthquakes or suffer from epidemics and natural disasters. Everything will be fine.

If we want to connect all our desires and all intentions together and direct them to one Creator, to one source, then we bring our world into a stable state. There will be no unpleasant shifts in it, and everything will move only to an even greater balance, smoothly, carefully, and slowly. We will live in a peaceful world. We can do it.

Everything depends on the person, but only when all of humanity will be like one person, and not billions of people, each of whom is pulling in his own direction.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/13/23, Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “Reinforcing Ourselves with There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Question: In this world, in this illusion, we are given the opportunity to connect together. By playing in connection with each other, do we thereby correct the spiritual?

Answer: In playing with unity, we call upon ourselves the surrounding light to the extent of its similarity, like children who play and thereby call upon ourselves a special force that develops them. This force exists in nature. If a child does not try to play, to do something, he or she does not develop.

The same thing happens to us according to the same principle. There is nothing supernatural here.

We are trying to unite, but we do it consciously. We know that we must call a higher power upon ourselves and we use all kinds of advice from Kabbalists for how to do this most effectively. Therefore, a group of ten people comes together with a certain intention and discusses those topics that bring us closer to the power of the light.

This is the light of reason, the light that fills us, and from which it becomes warm inside. This is how we operate.

You can call it a ritual, how the ancient priests caused some kind of phenomena, it does not matter. The main thing is that our actions should be aimed at challenging the positive force of nature, which immediately affects us and gradually, step by step, begins to purposefully change.

These actions become vital for you, because thanks to them you change, and it happens absolutely clearly. You feel how from time to time completely different realizations occur in you, an understanding of what is happening, and your relationship with other people, with the forces of nature. Moreover, you yourself begin to influence this force, attract it quite intensively, and change faster than all other people because they do not use this opportunity. This is what Kabbalah gives us.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The World of Liars” 5/19/12

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Question: There is an area in Kabbalah called Kabbalistic geography. What is it?

Answer: Kabbalistic geography is not only the geo-science of the Earth and the consequences that the upper forces cause on Earth. It includes the study of our world, our universe, as a mold from the next, upper world. After all, from that degree, forces descend into our world that determine all corporeal parts: inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human levels and their interaction with each other.

Moreover, a huge number of forces are occupied by inanimate nature: an infinite number of stars, galaxies, planets, nebulae, and other celestial bodies. But, despite the quantity of these forces, their quality is scanty in comparison with the vegetative and animate nature that exists on Earth, and even more so with the level of “Human.”

That is, as more qualitative forces appear in our world from the spiritual world, their quantity in our world decreases accordingly, but their quality increases.

If we go further in this quantitative and qualitative influence and the similarity of the upper world to our world, then we can say that all the countries of the world, all the imprints on the surface of the Earth, are Kabbalistic geography, that is, they are the result of the influence of upper forces on our Earth, on its surface.

Everything that determines ecology, geography, topography on the Earth, and not only on it, but also underground to its center, everything that surrounds our Earth, all this is a consequence of these upper forces.

But the most interesting thing is that it relates to a person. Therefore, in Kabbalah, we study more about the connection between the Earth, its geography (climate and all kinds of geographical features) and those peoples who live on it, and from generation to generation moved by various means: either wars, or the discovery of lands, and so on.

As a result, the most interesting thing is, of course, the development of the people of Israel, since this ancient Babylonian group, practically a part of all humanity, carries the method of correcting it, raising it back to the upper level, from where all the forces that form our universe descend.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalistic Geography” 12/27/10

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