Question: How can one find one’s purpose in this world?

Answer: I think that it is not simple at all. The thing is that a person is born in a specific environment that pushes him forward, and he changes under its influence.

The purpose of any person is to achieve correction of one’s attitude toward others. This is obligatory for everyone. You need to make sure that you treat others so positively that they treat you exactly the same way.

Question: If we are fulfilling the Creator’s plan, is man’s will in our world our illusion? Or is the will that we have to accept the current life situation?

Answer: If we are fulfilling the Creator’s plan, then we can perceive everything that exists as an offer from above to approach the future state.
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From KabTV’s “Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips” 5/18/23

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Question: A Kabbalist perceives much more than an ordinary person in his five material senses. Do you see or feel what others consider miracles?

Answer: In our world, I do not see more than everyone else sees. I see sources and connections between things. And, let’s say, I do not see the future more than others.

The future depends on our correction. I cannot do some tricks and predict the day after tomorrow this and that will happen. No! It depends upon people who change every second. If they change a little, then tomorrow will look different. It does not depend on me.

Baal HaSulam wrote about what he thought he would see during his lifetime. But to this day it has not materialized. It is the same with Rabash. I heard from him such things that never happened, although he believed that they were being realized from day to day.

Question: Why is there some kind of attractive force in a Kabbalist?

Answer: Because he feels and knows more, wider, and deeper, but not about tomorrow.

He knows according to what laws tomorrow should be realized, but not in what form: good or bad. The whole picture that you see depends on this: either it will be, God forbid, war, riots, earthquakes, fires, or the end of the world, as they say, or it will be insight, revelation, understanding of what is happening, and unification. The Kabbalist does not know this.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What Is a Miracle” 3/6/11

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Question: Why did the general system not reward us from birth with an altruistic perception of pleasure?

Answer: If we were not in our egoistic perception of pleasure, but in an altruistic perception, then we would have no resistance to it; we would simply exist in it.

We would be at the level of angels, that is, forces that exist like that, and we would have no comprehension, no sense of our own “I.” We would not be opposite to the Creator, we would not be personalities, we would not be creations relative to Him.

Precisely because there is opposition to our egoism in revealing the higher world, in revealing the state of bestowal, love, and connection with what is outside of me, with my friends, with their inner aspirations to the Creator, and there is the possibility of freedom, I therefore exist separately from the upper force and I do not obey it, I choose what to do.

If this were not the case, then we would simply automatically exist in bestowal, as we now automatically exist in receiving.

Now, we are also angels, only angels of death, who, with each of their temporary fulfillment, kill themselves, thereby bringing death closer. Otherwise, we would be angels of life, in other words, forces that simply exist in that volume of life and know nothing about themselves.

Comment: But if you say that the situation is much better than the current one…

Answer: No, not better. The angel of life is no better than the angel of death. Both are neither better nor worse; these are the forces of nature. There is no good and bad outside of a person when he decides whether to move forward or not. Outside of man, these forces are equivalent.

From these two forces, from their correct combination, each moment we build states that add up together and give us the image of “man” or “Adam,” which means “similar to the Creator.”

Question: When a great Kabbalist comes to a certain point of comprehension, does he wait for everyone else to comprehend?

Answer: He does not wait, he works on his own correction by helping others. As long as the others are not corrected, he feels like that too. No one can achieve complete correction until the whole world is corrected, so every Kabbalist has more to do.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What is mind?” 2/21/11

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In our movement toward the goal of creation, we can choose the best or the worst version of this movement. Either we will drag ourselves in shackles, driven by a whip, or we will go in a compartment carriage, on a good road, looking out the window at a beautiful panorama. That is a big difference.

But to do this, we need to participate in the movement ourselves, i.e., get into the carriage instead of trudging along the road in shackles. This means that I agree with the purpose of creation and that I want to achieve it.

I have to wish for it myself, and this is against my egoism. But I strive for it more than anything else in the world even if I had the opportunity to avoid it, so I have to come to a state of correct assessment of the goal, its understanding.

This work consists of making a person realize what the single force of nature is doing to him, how kind it is, how much by trying to change him from an egoist to an altruist, to an absolute unmercenary person, it wants to raise him to a perfect level. He begins to evaluate this perfection as the greatest gift.

Question: But whether he is walking in shackles or riding in a carriage car, does he still feel some pressure on his current condition?

Answer: No. He himself is remaking that terrible, dirty road along which he had to trudge driven by a whip. He lays the track to the train himself, he creates this train and all the amenities.

Question: Why is it impossible to walk in shackles if a person knows the principles of the universe?

Answer: No. “In shackles” means that he does not know the principles or does not agree with them and he does not want to change himself.

After all, the task is not to walk. “To reach” means to completely change yourself. There is no need to go anywhere. You will suddenly find that you have to be in the same place, that the road is in fact not a road but your internal changes that you have to go through.

Therefore, we must quickly create a methodology for correcting the whole of humanity, describe it as simply as possible, and distribute it by all means. The main thing is for a person to understand what is happening to him and the world right now, what kind of world he finds himself in.

If we want to see the world as kind and not as it begins to seem to us as very threatening and unpredictable, then we urgently need to understand what nature forces us to do.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Principles of the universe” 4/9/11

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The point of freewill in a Kabbalistic group is in the decision to expose yourself to the influence of the environment.

This is the most fundamental thing: me and the group. I must gather this team around me, unite them together in one fist, enter among them, invigorate them so that they act on me and I on them, and we would move toward the highest goal.

Although we do not feel it, let’s all take on this task together: “Yes we do not understand what we are doing. Maybe it is still hidden from us. So we will play at it like children and eventually we will grow up because there is a force in nature that develops us.”

But often this is a “voice of one crying out in the desert” that does not resonate with anyone. Or everyone speaks beautifully and others do not respond. Everyone is shouting, “Let’s do it, let’s do it!” and at the same time they look not at each other, but look in different directions.

Comment: Nonetheless people cannot, for example, stay in a certain surrounding for five years that does not affect them in at least some way.

My Response: They have to support each other!

Changes occur in them everyday. Moreover the changes that are taking place in the world should also push them toward their own changes.

After all, since the moment the science of Kabbalah began to be revealed to the general public, look at the changes that have occurred in the world and also with us! There are already millions of us.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Method of Kabbalah Realization” 4/10/11

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Question: Today it is possible to create a single genetic culture, to improve humanity. Would it be good if all people become equally perfect? An ideal poet, an ideal scientist, an ideal politician with an innate ability not to take bribes, not to betray.

Will it be possible immediately to build an ideal spiritual society based on such an ideal society in the social sense?

Answer: That would be terrible. If people without freewill immediately got the opportunity to bestow, fill, love, and respect each other, then it will be an upside-down world. It would be an absolutely terrible world. It would not be anti-egoistic.

Question: Is it because it was created artificially?

Answer: Yes. That is, then they would be able to control the forces that should have been aimed at uniting people in such a way that they will divide people. I do not know how to choose the right words and phrases for this, but this, in general, would be the possibility of terrible events.

Question: If we create a society of ideal people?

Answer: Yes. I hope that the upper forces of nature will not allow us to do this.

Question: Are you saying now that evil should exist in the world?

Answer: Yes! Evil should balance good so that we constantly choose between evil and good, so that slowly, and gradually evil turns into good, and thus we would move forward, learning, educating ourselves, and educating new generations.

Question: Are you saying that a human, in principle, is a choice between evil and good?

Answer: Yes. Without this choice, without freewill between evil and good, a person will not be able to exist.

Comment: But a person is likely to choose evil. After all, this is his nature.

My Response: No, he should have the opportunity. I am talking about the fact that we will live in a time when we will have the opportunity to choose and choose freely.

Question: Will we choose the good?

Answer: Not necessarily. You cannot live in a world of absolute goodness. You must come to this gradually and understand how evil should participate in creation, and how it should help us become good.

Question: Are you saying that evil should not be destroyed?

Answer: Yes. It must exist alongside the good and constantly, all the time help the good reveal its specific nature.

Question: With the help of what will good grow all the time?

Answer: With the help of evil.

Question: Does it mean that as soon as evil begins to grow good will immediately grow, and this is how we will advance?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What heights can good reach?

Answer: Complete freedom of will.

Question: What is it, what is behind it?

Answer: This is a state where a person becomes absolutely good, absolutely corrected, absolutely bestowing, and this will not interfere with his development.

Question: Is all this due to evil?

Answer: Yes. That is why evil was created as the main force of nature.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/20/23

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Question: Let’s talk about the inner voice.

A child often speaks aloud to himself. Then it is ends and this inner voice goes inside. Also, a person speaks in an inner voice all the time. Scientists say that the inner voice helps us make decisions, move toward goals, avoid mistakes, and enjoy happy moments in life.

But the inner voice can also become our enemy, reproaching us for mistakes and reminding us of embarrassments. Then it is not easy with this inner voice, and it is not easy to curb it. It eats you up and it gets very loud. Why does it happen at all and is it possible to control it?

Answer: This is our multilateral and multilevel nature when we can talk to ourselves, argue, joke about ourselves, and so on. Only humans have it, no one else has it, not even monkeys.

Question: So can I internally make fun of myself: “Look at what I am”?

Answer: Yes. This is a very interesting trait in a person because it is thanks to it that he rises above himself and controls himself.

Question: Can a person change thanks to an inner voice, thanks to controlling it?

Answer: Yes, a person can change thanks to his inner voice. He can be in contradiction with himself, scold himself, and blame himself. Not to be flat, but multileveled. This is a very good, special property in him. And when you see such people, such a nation, it is especially felt in them how rich they are internally.

Comment: And here is what it sounds like, and I even hear it often: “What did you do? Why did you do that? What have you done there?”

My Response: It is natural! How can a person develop if he does not have it?

Question: Is this development?

Answer: This is development, without it there is none. This is not self-eating, this is self-criticism that determines the next, higher degree.

Question: How can you control the inner voice? Is it even possible to control it?

Answer: You need to connect with it and try to assess where it is leading you. It takes me by the hand or by the ear and walks next to me, or follows me, pushing against my back, pushing.

That is, I must understand my inner voice, I must try to determine: where does it work within me at all?

Question: Where did it come from anyway?

Answer: I believe that it is from above. This is my angel, who leads me further to correction, to overcoming all kinds of difficulties that he, himself, places in front of me. He leads me through these difficulties like an older one takes a child by the hand and leads him, showing him how to go through all kinds of obstacles.

Question: Do you think that when I fall, he still holds my hand even at that moment?

Answer: Of course. And if not, then specifically so that I fall and learn how to fall and get up.

Question: Do you still define it as a kind father?

Answer: There is no evil in the world at all. Actually it is always a good angel.

Question: Then it turns out that there are no mistakes at all, right? Here he told me something, the inner voice: I made a mistake!

Answer: There can be no mistakes because I do not make them.

Question: You say very high things. If possible tell me, how do I relate to the inner voice, and how do I live with it?

Answer: I need to treat with love that upper force, which incarnates, dresses in me, guides me, guards me, and shows me the right path at every moment of my existence.

And the more I try to feel it, the more clearly I will understand that this is the Creator, and thus He guides me, and teaches me. I will get to a point where I will be constantly in touch with Him.

Question: So, must I give myself up, annul, before Him?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And so, follow this inner force, as if going with the flow?

Answer: Do not resist.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/3/23

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Comment: I heard a story about a famous actor who was an alcoholic. One day he was sitting in a bar with another man. This man started telling the actor about his own success, plans, and great project that would make him rich and famous, and further related that only he knew what truth was. Then the man got up, ran out of the bar, brakes screeched, and this guy was gone.

The story sobered up the alcoholic who stopped drinking and adopted the principle became: “Be calm, never hurry. Do not make the Lord laugh with your plans; do not fight with foam at the mouth, hammering your truth into the heads of others. Remember, your joy and death will come to you in due time, at the right time. You can’t do a damn thing about it.”

Can you comment on this principle of life.

My Response: I agree with him!

Comment: There are a lot of things here. For example, the starting point: “Be calm, never rush.”

My Response: Yes, because you won’t speed up time anyway. To do this you need to move to other coordinates, and you can’t do that.

Comment: So take your time to do some work; don’t rush to earn.

My Response: No. All the same, everything is planned and it should be so.

Comment: The second: “Don’t make the Lord laugh at your plans.”

My Response: Yes, because you will be fulfilling His plans anyway! And His only.

Question: But how can we not make plans? How is this possible?

Answer: In faith above reason. Calmly do everything that comes to you.

Question: Do you think all our plans that we conceive, twist, and run with are useless?

Answer: It is all absolutely useless.

Comment: And “Don’t fight with foam at the mouth, hammering your truth into the heads of others.”

My Response: That is for sure. First of all, what are you trying to prove? That you are more right than they are?

Comment: Yes, usually so.

My Response: But after all, everyone has their own view, their own egoism; so don’t.

Question: And if you have a deep conviction and you know that this is how people will be better off?

Answer: Buy yourself a big mirror and perform in front of it as much as you want.

Comment: Further: “Remember, your joy and death will come to you at the right time. You can’t do a damn thing about it.”

My Response: Exactly. Even if you want to end your life, it will also not work out according to your desire except when it is necessary.

Comment: But we are developing medicine, lengthening our life.

My Response: This is us making our efforts in order to get out of this world in time.

Comment: So you think that even if we didn’t develop medicine, didn’t develop drugs…

My Response: Absolutely everything would be the same.

Comment: It’s very hard for a person to imagine. He invests so much in being healthy and in having a long life.

My Response: You have to sit in the lotus posture like these ancient Indian elders, and look into the distance, into the horizon, and at the rolling waves of this world. And you don’t have to do anything else.

Question: Then can you generalize all this and give a principle by which one should live?

Answer: The principle is very simple; don’t twitch. That’s all.

Comment: So all these career ladders are worthless.

My Response: We see it all collapsing before our eyes.

Question: And the search for the meaning of life?

Answer: The search for the meaning of life is to find a point of balance with the Creator where you understand that everything should go according to His plan. And you humble yourself before His plan, in the end, and swim calmly.

Question: Basically, this whole life path, everything should come down to what you just said? The search for this point of contact with the Creator?

Answer: Yes. Find this current and join it and swim along it.

Question: And when does the calmness that you now radiate come? After running, searching, or after touching something, some truth? When?

Answer: I think that after 20 years of practicing Kabbalah it may already come. And if one is in the right environment, then even before. Because you will hear this from everyone and so on.

Question: And then we return to all these principles: be calm, take your time, don’t make God laugh at your plans; do they become real?

Answer: You don’t interfere with any of your plans and actions. You just live and try to capture more deeply the flow of life.

Question: What do I capture after all?

Answer: You capture what comes from the Creator and takes you away.

This is time, the flow of time. The river of life. And you feel like you agree with it, are ready to lie down on this current, and that it carries you.

Question: And is this the right principle, a properly lived life?

Answer: Yes. You can’t do anything else anyway. On the contrary, the wisdom is to obey.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/15/22

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Question: If everyone is controlled by the Creator, where is their freedom?

Answer: We have to disseminate the knowledge of Kabbalah, realize it on ourselves, and show an example to the whole world. And the whole world has to accept it and implement it with our help. If it does not want to, that is its business. If it wants to, it will slowly understand.

Question: But this is not the desire of creation, is it?

Answer: No one asks the creation, just as no one asked you whether you should be born or not. You are brought to the opportunity to act freely. If you want, use it; if you do not want to, then do not. Then you will be led in circles by a long way and through a lot of problems.

If you implement freedom of will through your correction, yearn for it by yourself, and do not resist with all your might, then you go forward and everything is fine. But if you resist, then you will be led by force, like all stubborn ones.

If you understand what “reward and punishment” means, then you will understand that there are two reins that will pull you back and forth. By being prodded from behind by punishment and attracted by the reward ahead, you will always go where you need to.

Comment: It turns out that in this case, the Creator is a sadist.

My Response: The Creator is the upper force. The force! What right do you have to apply any epithets to it?! Merciful, cruel, and so on.

Everything that Kabbalists write comes from what a person feels. The Creator does not feel anything. This is a force of nature, an absolute force in which there is no pity, no anger, nothing. It is the force that should bring all creation to a single end.

It has a certain program. According to this program, the will to receive and the will to bestow gradually come closer to each other according to a certain formula of equivalence between them. This formula is known: between the will to receive and the will to bestow, there must be a screen that balances both forces.

A very simple formula for the interaction of these three values forms the entire program of creation and implements it. This is the Creator, the creation, and a system of interaction between them, which brings them closer and closer at each degree.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What Is a Parallel World?” 3/1/11

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Comment: You said that you were once offered to find out what would happen to you in the future, but you refused.

My Response: Yes. What’s the point? It is said: “Do not practice divination or tell fortunes.” Why should I do this if by doing it I am robbing myself spiritually? I don’t want to know the future; I want to make it myself. I want to go to it blindly. It all depends on how I aspire to it.

Question: Isn’t this moment when you supposedly go to your future by yourself an illusion of freedom? It is programmed anyway.

Answer: The future is programmed but not the way to achieve it. For example, you go to school. It is absolutely certain that you will finish it. But how many times you will sit in which classes, how many strikes you will get and how many A’s or D’s depends on you and no one else. Therefore, it is not known how future states are achieved, because it is in your hands.

There are only two ways to achieve the same state at any given time, the good way or the bad way. Let’s say you come to work and you have to do it. You finished, got a reward, and went home. And so it is every day.

But how you will go through this path from beginning to end, depends on you. Either you will learn how to pass it well and quickly and implement it easily because you understand that this is necessary, good, and beneficial for you, or you will be driven forward with a stick to happiness.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What Is Memory?” 2/21/11

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