After the exodus from Egypt, which symbolizes the beginning of the spiritual development of a person, there are 40 years of wandering in the desert. This wandering happens with the help of the light, with the help of the quality of bestowal, and constant resistance of egoism.

On the right side is the quality of bestowal, the Light—the revelation of the Creator—and on the left side is egoism, the Pharaoh, who is always resisting, and you are constantly restoring the control of the quality of bestowal, altruism, and love for others over the quality of egoism, self–love, and hatred for others.

Being inside Egypt is a state when, in general, you feel good in absolutely everything, except that egoism rules over you.

Today in our world we are experiencing the birth pangs, and therefore we begin to feel bad in corporeality. In principle, we go through a qualitative recognition of evil when everything is fine, but still we cannot put up with it. “What are you missing?! It seems like you have enough of everything. Some people have nothing to eat, but what is wrong with you?!” “No, I cannot stay with this. It is better to die than to live like this.”

This is the recognition of how unbearable the control of egoism is that we should feel. Then we will perceive the control of altruism, bestowal, and love as a way out toward freedom.

It cannot be expressed in words because we are talking about completely different levels of nature, different dimensions when we begin to feel everything that is happening in a completely different way.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Miracle of Birth” 4/21/12

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Question: What is the difference between the beginning of the 21^st century and the beginning of the 2o^th century, which was marked by the First World War and the need for changes in society?

Answer: At the beginning of the 2o^th century, there was a fight for division, governance, and influence in the world. And today, at the beginning of the 21^st century, there is a struggle for survival.

It is clear to everyone that it is impossible to rule the world, as it was thought before.

The world is governed by other forces, not ours, and we must comprehend them and enter them. The 21^st century is the century of comprehension of the upper collective governance, the upper mind, and our common “I.”

Until the 2o^th century, we developed in the search for knowledge, science, literature, and culture. The 2o^th century is the century of integration when we were obliged to communicate with each other through mutual trade, separation–connection, war, and peace. People began to move, relocate, and understand that the world is round. They lost the sense of the flatness on which they live and developed a feeling of a sphere. This is very important and is the result of the 2o^th century.

And then we began to experience huge problems with integration. It happened very quickly and imperceptibly because we are entering a state where changes occur much faster than we can realize with our feelings and mind. It turns out that today we are in a state that we do not understand at all.

There was a time when rulers would say, “It will be so,” and it was so. Then they would look at the world around them, consult their advisors, and say, “It is better to do this or that.” Today neither they nor their advisers understand anything. The time of kings has passed because it is impossible to follow whatever pops into the king’s and his advisers’ heads. Besides, there are no wise advisers left. So, we don’t know what to rely on and what to do with ourselves. That is the problem.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Difference between the 2o^th and 21^st Centuries” 2/11/12

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If we understand the history of our development and its tendency, and realize that nature is pushing us toward harmony so that a human being would re-establish balance in nature rather than causing the opposite effect, we will see how we have to treat nature at its inanimate, vegetative, animate, and mostly important human levels, i.e., the social level. Thus we have to build our society in the way that it would influence all of nature and would bring it into harmony.

When we begin this movement, everything that surrounds us and exists within us will suddenly begin to come into balance—a person’s health, psychology, and physiology, and his relations with family, children, other people, the government, and the world. At the same time, all laws of the world, including the ecology and climate will start to come into balance.

We will begin to feel the general movement of nature above the matter, time, and space. Today, even physicists are talking about the fact that everything depends on each one of us, meaning on the observer.

If we change the observer, give him one more property opposite to hate, which is love, he will be able to control these two properties within himself according to the middle line, he will rise above our nature, and will begin to sense the state of eternity and perfection.

Then we will really understand where our nature has been pushing us toward since its plan is much higher than something that our small mind is capable of perceiving. We will come to this.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Make a Revolution” 2/10/12

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Today the world has become unmanageable and is leading us to the next state—the attainment of our unity, that is, the thing that actually controls us. Previously, we allegedly controlled ourselves; our mind was enough for this because we were individuals. But when the world has closed, we can no longer control ourselves, the world no longer acts according to our minds.

All our movements, plans, and decisions do not affect nature. We cannot sit, think, come to a conclusion, and implement it.

Even if we do it with great difficulty, we still do not succeed because something interferes with it, some extraneous force. It intervenes between our attainments and decisions and interferes with us. This leads us to the need to discover what really controls the world, if not us.

Is the world moving somewhere? It does. Look at what is happening to the climate, the economy, and everything else. It seems to us that there is great discord, the greatest crisis, which is primarily a crisis of control. Actually, this is not a crisis. Everything is going according to plan. But for us, it feels like a crisis because we do not understand what is going on. In fact, there are no problems, we just need to sort things out.

When we sort everything out, we will see that we can enter into this very smoothly and calmly, and we will feel and understand how we can connect with the upper governance. After all, if we are isolated between ourselves at our level, this means that we are controlled by the upper mind, the upper force, and we fall under its influence.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call, The Difference between the 20th and 21st Centuries” 2/11/12

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Question: What does a dog think about man? “He feeds me, takes care of me, walks me. He must be God.” What does a cat think about a person? “He feeds me, takes care of me. I guess I am God.”

What do we humans think about the Creator? He feeds us, He takes care of us. What do we think about Him?

Answer: That we are God.

Question: Why? Why can’t I say: “Thank You! You take care of me. You are God.”

Answer: Because by doing so, I lose my independence.

Question: Do I want this freedom, do I need independence?

Answer: Yes, of course. This is how we are created.

Question: So, He as if cut us off from Himself?

Answer: Actually, He concealed Himself so I would re-establish the right relationship with Him myself.

Question: Is this possible only if I do not see Him?

Answer: Yes. If I cannot find Him, but keep looking for Him, I gradually realize that He is, in fact, the center of my existence.

Question: At what point do I start looking for Him? At what point am I dissatisfied with myself, my efforts, and my capabilities?

Answer: When you become utterly disillusioned with your search: for yourself, life, the purpose of life, the Creator, and so on, then you start getting closer to finding Him.

Question: Do I have to reach disillusionment?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: But I have to invest in the search.

My Response: Absolutely, everything you have got.

Question: Is it about doing everything myself; should my efforts be such?

Answer: Yes. And after you realize that you cannot do anything yourself, you begin to wonder where is this connection with the Creator found?

Question: You said: “I cannot do anything.” Is there really nothing I can do?

Answer: Nothing. Until one puts up his hands and completely entrusts himself to the upper force, nothing will work.

Question: Today we see that wars and crises are nearing, there will be more and more of them, environmental disasters, and so on. Will this lead us to the point of realizing that we cannot do anything?

Answer: Good question. What we see today, I doubt will lead to the realization. Humanity still has very little awareness of its situation, its dependence. It thinks it can still do something.

Question: So I have to pull this “rug” out from under me to see I can’t do anything?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And this is the main theme: “We cannot do anything without You?”

Answer: We cannot do anything without the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/15/22

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Question: What are optimal connections and the optimal state between people?

Answer: The optimal state is when a person reaches a benevolent attitude toward another person. Not because today they are beneficial to each other and tomorrow they are not or someone outbids someone, but because my nature must become completely good.

Why? What is my benefit? Well, if you pay me, I understand that. If I benefit from this, I understand. But just to be kind to each other so that this relationship would be eternal and I would not be able to spoil it, how can I achieve this?

This requires the next degree because if I treat you well, I will reach a higher degree, adhesion with the upper force, attainment of eternity and perfection. In this case, you become a means on my path to reach my perfection and eternity. In this case, I am ready for this, I value this.

In principle, this approach is also egoistic at first, Lo Lishma (for one’s own sake), and then it turns into an absolutely altruistic quality. When I begin to realize what my attitude toward others is correct, pure, eternal, and real, which in itself carries a great upper force, then I am already completely protected from my egoism and I will never become your enemy.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Why do We Need Countries?” 2/4/12

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Question: In 1950, Harvard biology professor Curt Richter conducted an experiment with rats where he drowned domesticated and then feral rats, one by one, in jars of water to study how long they would struggle to survive. The first rats did not last long, only a matter of minutes. The remaining domesticated rats swam for days before giving up. The hope of salvation gave them these vital forces. The feral rats, both aggressive and able swimmers gave up quickly after realizing they were in a glass enclosure.

How would you apply this to humanity? Today, many give up and drown almost immediately. Such a time has come. How can we tell this to humanity? Do we need to give hope to it and how?

Answer: Humanity does not want to agree with the salvation that the Creator dictates to us. It agrees to move to salvation only in its own way: “I will suppress others and thus survive.”

Comment: That is, the Creator says: “I will save you,” and we do not want to be saved. But if we wanted to follow the path of the Creator, then we could keep afloat for a very long time.

My Response: No problem. If these experimental rats, for example, had held onto each other, they would not have drowned. Therefore, our task is to hold on to each other, and then we would be like on a raft.

Question: What are the conditions for this raft to exist and float?

Answer: Mutual guarantee. This is what the Creator wants from us: Each of us lives for others.

Question: Is this hope, is this salvation, and is this everything?

Answer: It is the only solution.

Question: I understand that this is the voice of the Creator. How can we hear it?

Answer: Love your neighbor as yourself. This formula should be the main one, when everyone will think for the other, about the other, for the sake of the other, and not for themselves. Then people will feel that this is the force that will support them forever.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 1/5/23

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The intermediate stage of transition toward a new stage should be a period of self-study and self-education. Then we will build a society of rational consumption where we live in a normal and rational way and we take care that everyone has the same general level, but in accordance with the individual needs of everyone and according to their taste.

The most important thing is that in addition to providing us with a rational level of corporeal existence, we will develop ourselves through our new social ties so as to be in complete similarity to nature.

Thus, we will begin to enter into its hidden forces and to feel the vast space in which we exist, not the universe that we depict for ourselves, but inside a great and multidimensional machine.

In this case, it will be completely under our control since we will become its uppermost beings.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Make a Revolution” 2/10/12

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Question: Igor writes: “Dear Michael Laitman, you have said many times that there is always an answer from the Creator, but we do not hear it. On the other hand, you say that all this horror that is happening today is for us to come to a dead end from our squabbling with each other and raise a prayer. Please explain to me, does the Creator still answer us all the time, or does He not answer and wait for our prayer in order to answer it?”

Answer: This is a tricky question. I would say that the Creator, in general, expects us to ask Him the correct question, to want the correct answer. That is, let’s assume He wants us to clearly ask: “What do we need to do in order to live in peace?”

Question: One way or another, will this happen if we feel that we are at a dead end and we cannot live in peace? Is this where the question arises from?

Answer: Yes. How can we live in peace?

Comment: But it will already be a scream.

My Response: No, humanity is not screaming. I do not see anyone screaming. Humanity is only waiting for everyone to look right, to suppress the other.

Question: So when will it start asking? When will it turn to the Creator correctly?

Answer: When it will feel that it is necessary to live by the rules, by the laws, of nature. People do not want that yet.

Question: What needs to happen for this?

Answer: I want the correct, cosmic vision of the world to manifest within me. I want my mind, my feelings, my strength, everything to be directed toward feeling nature and wanting to agree with it.

Question: Does it mean that you want this little world of mine to expand up to the universe?

Answer: Otherwise nothing will happen. Precisely because I agree only to my little world, and everything else is not important to me, and even let it all get even worse is why I do not see a solution.

Question: So, if I have a thought like: “I only want to feel good, and for this I live,” is this thought flawed?

Answer: It has already exhausted itself. We see what is going on. The world can plunge into such a wild squabble that there will be, as they say, a war for peace.

Question: But all this is in the hands of the Creator. Why will He not make us ask now, right now? Already all the conditions seem to be there.

Answer: He is making it so that we would ask, but we do not want to.

Question: Are we resisting even at this moment?

Answer: We do not want to. We are ready to do everything in order to put pressure on everyone.

Question: Then tell me, how do you see this turning point inside us when we suddenly start to want?

Answer: It will appear gradually. After all, it emerges from all this hopelessness.

Question: Do you think that suffering accumulates in humanity and in a person? Or does it simply disappear, like in the sand?

Answer: We need to look mainly at humanity and see how it slowly, gradually understands that this is not the way.

Question: Then I still come back to this question. Does the Creator answer us all the time, but we do not hear? At the same time, do we need to be pressed against the wall so that we raise a prayer, and He would answer us?

Answer: The Creator pushes us so that we recognize that there must be a correct answer, and it must be even against our nature. But we have to want to make a decision that is above us.

Question: Does it turn out that we have not grown up to it yet?

Answer: No. No one has grown up to it!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 1/5/23

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Question: There is a parable about a  rich man was riding in a luxurious carriage drawn by six thoroughbred horses. They reached the mud, got stuck in it, and could not get out. Suddenly along comes a cart with a peasant and two non–pedigree horses, and they calmly skip through this mud.

The rich man asks the peasant: “How did you manage to do that?” He says: “You see, your horses, sir, although they are strong individually, there is no connection between them, each one considers itself more thoroughbred than the other and pulls in its own direction. You whip one, and the other is only happy about it. My horses, however, are simple, of the same breed, you threaten one of them with a whip a little, and the other one puts all her strength to help the one next to it.”

Nowadays humanity is all thoroughbred horses. Countries with their flags, with their anthems, with their pride. We are stuck in the mud, by and large, and cannot get out of it.

How can we all become such simple horses that skip through this mud and not thoroughbreds?

Answer: This requires the recognition of evil.

First of all, we are simple horses. Secondly, we cannot get out of the mud, the swamp of our lives, if we will not think about each other. Only together will we be able to go through all this swamp.

Question: So is it possible to be such a horse that feels that the other one is just about to be threatened with a whip, and is already accelerating?

Answer: Yes, of course. This connection is mutual. It is necessary in order to overcome any obstacles.

Question: Can we say that we will be in the mud anyway if we are thoroughbred horses?

Answer: No, we can be thoroughbred horses. But not in order to gloat over each other and to think only about ourselves.

Question: Does this apply to all of humanity and to each person individually?

Answer: Yes. This, in principle, is how each person judges himself.

Question: Is there an “I” in each of us that says: “I am better than the other, I am higher than the other”?

Answer: This is in each of us, we are egoists according to our original material. Therefore, we must think about the way we can move to universal love.

Question: In what case is this possible? When does this click, this flip, happen?

Answer: When we see that our nature is evil. It was specially created by the Creator so that we could change it to the opposite one.

Question: Is that why He created it?

Answer: Yes, specifically for this because we realize what good means only if we move to it from absolute evil.

Question: When does the understanding of the Creator’s thought come to me? At what point?

Answer: Firstly, it does not come to everyone. Secondly, it comes when a person really tries to find the meaning of life. This is when it comes.

Question: At what point is this search laid in me? When does it manifest in me? Is it as soon as I am born?

Answer: No, it is not simple and not for every person. There are people to whom this comes gradually over the course of life. And there are people for whom it does not come at all. This is still the majority of people.

So we must disseminate the thought of creation and correction in the world so that everyone understands that he was created in order to correct his evil to good.

Question: Does everyone have to come to this?

Answer: In principle, everyone, because the purpose is universal correction.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/15/22

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