When you rise above desire it is like you see it apart from yourself. Just like the Creator who created desire, you too look on it from your point in the heart, which is a point of the Creator in you. Just as He created this desire from nothing, so too are you observing it from the side and you operate on it in order to connect with others. Others are also merely just desires.

You include them in that you would want to help them connect together in one system. You reveal that it is really possible to unite here. To the degree that you begin to work for them, connect with them, and get them closer to the common unity, you begin to sense in this system some fulfillment that you could not find before. This is the fulfillment by the source.

When you connect desires of others on the condition that you are ready to serve and fulfill them, then you discover in this common connection that source, the Creator who created your original point in you. And all of this comes together: the humongous common desire and the one single fulfillment of it.

It is like a pot with soup. The pot is us, our common united desire, and the soup is the Creator, the light, the property of love.

As a result, when egoistic desires connect together and form the walls of this pot, then the qualitative and quantitative fulfillment of the pot becomes revealed precisely to the degree the walls are rising up. It is filled by the very source, by the light, by the Creator who is sensed above time and precedes everything that is created and exists.

This is not a psychological annulment of self. All of this remains, but it is perceived as the basis position that is necessary to start working on uniting, on revelation of the Creator—this field, this force, this “soup.”

I think that today we are very close to this state since there are all the preconditions and everything is becoming revealed in some way. The world is moving toward unity; people’s desires are subconsciously aspiring to it regardless that it seems to us that a person is still far away from it. He is not far away.

All his questions, all his searches, even the ones that come from the reason that he has nothing to eat, that water and air are polluted, and that there is no hope for anything good to come for children and grandchildren—still, in all this despair, there is a subconscious demand to achieve the spiritual level.

Everything else cannot fulfill people any longer. People do not want anything else. Of course, they wish to escape pain and reach comfort, but this is because they want to avoid suffering rather than they really want something.

This common descent is beginning to overfill the world. Chaos, confusion, powerlessness, and the lack of direction or any kind of solution add to this state. This is the moment that the Kabbalists were talking about. I can see it absolutely clearly today.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Master of Disguise” 9/29/11

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Question: Recently, there has been a tendency of the burdening of the heart. It has become much more difficult for those people who have always been active to do something. What is this process?

Answer: Today people who are studying Kabbalah are beginning to enter into a new system and understand and recognize it. I gave them so much information that they literally live in it. They understand that there is us, there is our system of interaction between us, between us and the Creator, and between us and the rest of the world.

We are an intermediate link between the Creator and the whole world, and we must connect all this into one common system. They begin to realize that they are in implementing this process.

It was difficult for them to accept access to the outside world. We have always been working on attracting more friends from anywhere so that they too would yearn for spiritual attainment, for the revelation of the Creator.

But here we appeal to people who do not need anything in life except for comfortable living conditions. Of course, this is very weakening and leads you astray.

But it is precisely the fact that people now have the necessary need to exist normally, and this can only be solved by creating a universal human community on the terms of mutual guarantee that gives us a huge push forward so that we finally receive the upper light, pass it through ourselves to the entire humanity, and correct the whole world. Therefore, now we are starting to study practical Kabbalah.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Why does Everyone Feel ‘Like crap’?” 11/5/11

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Comment: Technical progress, especially artificial intelligence, is designed to free people from routine work. But some scientists say that man has begun to degrade intellectually. They say: “The brain, between “working and not working,” chooses “not working.”

The new generation has stopped thinking and analyzing. All information is on the phone. Your viewers claim that such a person is easier to manage. It all seems like a conspiracy to make us not think.

My Response: I think that this is a person’s natural attraction to non-action, to such a half-asleep state.

Then the person turns off his mental and other types of various abilities and lives with his eyes half open. And this is natural.

Question: So today we have come to such a naturalness. We used to struggle somewhat, but today we come to this?

Answer: We have become “wiser.”

Question: Please, tell me, if some brain function stops like this, then what function should open?

Answer: We will “sleep with our eyes open.”

Question: How is this different from drugs? Take it and sleep with your eyes open.

Answer: This is what we subconsciously strive for.

Question: Is this good in your opinion?

Answer: No. This is neither good nor bad, but it is where it is all going.

Question: So, what then? What future does such humanity have with its eyes half open and half asleep?

Answer: The fact is that we do not control our states.

Question: So there is still some kind of conspiracy from above?

Answer: Definitely!

Comment: We have an answer to the first question: there is a conspiracy.

My Response: It is not a conspiracy, but a program for our development to lead us through this state.

We must go through this state, maybe in this half-asleep and half-fainting state in order to agree with the upper management and not be too stubborn. And it will lull us all the time because it should lead us to new heights, to new heights of knowledge, and agreement with the higher force. And then we will be convinced that we are going the right way.

Question: So our goal is to come to an agreement with the higher force? And that is why it plays such a trick on us along the way? With us like that—somewhat half-asleep and calm—is it easier to reach this goal?

Answer: Of course.

Question: But the goal is to come to an agreement with a higher power?

Answer: Yes. We must accept its unconditional power over us.

Question: That is, that it exists and it owns us, and that is all. And it is like I am not there?

Answer: If I think about it correctly, then I am not. And this is the right way out.

Question: And do you think it is a good achievement that it exists and I do not?

Answer: Of course.

Question: What is next? What steps do I take? Here, You exist, but I do not exist; what are the conclusions from this?

Answer: You exist, You do it.

Question: I tell him: “You do it”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So, everything I do is done by You, and I agree with this? And is this good?

Answer: It is wonderful when a little egoist, a little man who is in the lowest of the worlds, cancels himself and does not want to interfere and ruin this world.

Question: Revolutions, coups, wars, and so on?

Answer: Yes, this is the best.

Question: That is, such a peaceful state of humanity that has cancelled itself before the highest is the best state?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Can you tell where He is leading us, the Supreme One? We have been canceled, where does He lead us?

Answer: He leads us to surrender to the upper force and not want to do anything ourselves. Only according to its advice.

Question: What is its biggest piece of advice?

Answer: We should feel like we belong to it unconditionally.

Question: So you are now all about this?

Answer: Of course. What else is there?

Question: That is, we correspond to it. Can we say that this corresponds to it?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then the last question: what is it like, so that we can match it?

Answer: Absolutely kind! And that is how we should become.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/31/23

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In order to allow us to attain the essence of creation, its inner strength, which is the Creator, the creation first reveals its shattering to us. Then its elements begin to connect with each other: first atoms, molecules, simple organisms, then the male and female parts of creation.

In the end, the connection reaches not only the inanimate, vegetative, and animate levels, but also the human level, that is, connection based on characters, views, mutual connection, and the birth of common offspring.

In this way, we develop more and more until we realize the need for an increasingly internal connection between us, and then we discover our oppositeness, mutual hatred, and rejection. The more these forces grow within us, the more we develop within the contrast of these opposites.

This contradiction lies within each of us, opposite desires and problems, because of this we want to unite but cannot do so. This is how we follow the path of our development, connect into different groups, nations, countries, parties, and all kinds of associations, and in this form reach our time divided into nationalities, states, and families.

But now the time has come to go through a very special stage of development and discover that we must rise above all our differences. That is, the unity should no longer be on a corporeal level, but on a spiritual one. This is the call of the times we find ourselves in; it requires us to rise above all contradictions.

Let us hope that we can understand this requirement and implement it so that we can ultimately reach one commonality as one man.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/26/23, Writing of Rabash “The Order of the Work, from Baal HaSulam”

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Question: This WhatsApp quote went viral: “When TV entered my home, I forgot how to read books. When the car pulled up to my doorstep, I forgot how to walk. When I picked up my mobile phone, I forgot how to write letters. When the computer came to my house, I stopped valuing time. When the air conditioner came to my house, I stopped looking for a cool breeze under the trees. In dealing with banks and credit cards, I forgot the value of money. With the smell of perfume, I forgot the scent of fresh flowers. By always running, I forgot how to stop. And finally, when I got WhatsApp, I forgot how to talk and communicate with real people.”

Please tell me why all progress leads to this. After all, these are meant to achieve something different—to help a person out and make our life easier.

Answer: Progress doesn’t do anything by itself. It opens opportunities for us. But when we start using it, we use it egotistically for ourselves. And this is the result.

Comment: So you’re saying this technological progress could have been used differently?

Answer: It could not have been used differently. Our egoism would not have allowed us to do anything differently. Nothing! That is, reason is given to us in order to develop this technological progress, but then it all gets stolen by our egoism.

Question: Is this too done by the ego? This is some kind of a completely closed circle.

Answer: This is called “the recognition of evil.” We are led to the fact that these opportunities will grow and become endless. Eventually we will become their slaves.

Question: Is that why we like what was written? A lot is found on the Internet that makes us say “Indeed, this is true.” Do we like this quote because we understand that this is true, that this is how it is, that our lives have in fact been damaged?

Answer: Of course. This is a train that cannot be stopped. This is what we are faced with.

Question: Are we damaging ourselves?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is there a way to turn it around?

Answer: There is no way. Our egoistic nature will not allow it, will not permit it.

Question: So what is your conclusion? Should we stop technological progress, or do something about it?

Answer: We have to balance it with internal moral progress. Then everything will be fine.

Question: So should we be given weapons only to the extent we can use them?

Answer: To the extent we can use them for the good of everyone.

Question: Then one last vital question: why are we given weapons if we are unable to use them for the benefit of all?

Answer: To realize the evil of our nature and demand the opposite force, the good force. Then everything will be corrected.

Question: So you are saying that we will be given weapons of destruction, the most terrible and vile. Will we keep getting them and will we not be stopped until we stop ourselves?

Answer: Right.

Comment: This doesn’t sound too optimistic.

Answer: Everything is ahead of us.

Question: I see. But the Creator, the upper force, can He not say: “Enough! I cannot give you these toys anymore. You use them for self-destruction.”?

Answer: Then why did He even start giving them?!

Let us learn how to live correctly before it’s too late. Otherwise, our learning will take place in very unpleasant states.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 3/30/23

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Humanity is in a huge deception because it does not want to explore nature. It does not want to scientifically explore itself and the world around it and only trust that.

If our desire and our perseverance went further into nature, it would bring us to the level of Kabbalists and would open all the worlds.

And how did the Kabbalists comprehend them? Only based on his desire to know the world as it really is: “I want to reveal everything! Is there a Creator? Reveal it! Is there a Higher World? Reveal it! Angels, beasts, devils, ghouls, reveal them!

I want to see everything, find out! Everything down to the smallest laws! I want to consist of everything, to absorb the whole universe, all the worlds!”

If we were not limited by our selfish desires, petty weaknesses, and religions, then we would all be on a completely different interplanetary, interstellar level! We would not be connected with this earth, with this world at all. It would all be somewhere in our lowest feelings and perceptions. We would be completely outside of all these restrictions!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Evolution of Discoveries” 10/31/11

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Question: People cry in joy. People cry in grief. What is crying?

Answer: Crying is a small state when my desires, what are called Kelim (vessels), cannot accommodate the impression I get. It causes an eruption of excessive stress that I cannot handle inside in the form of tears.

Question: To understand what it is, one has to know Kabbalah. Do you hope people will reach a stage where they will listen to your explanations and clearly understand what it is about?

Answer: Of course! Undoubtedly! We will communicate with each other not verbally, but on an internal level, and we will fully feel each other, integrate into each other with our hearts, minds, feelings, and thoughts—absolutely everything!

It seems to us that our bodies limit us. In fact, we are tied up in one common web, in one common network, but we cannot reveal it in any way.

Now it is revealed to us as a crisis. “Crisis” in Greek means the birth of something new, not anything negative. This is the next degree of connection between us.

But we are not ready to be at this level of connection yet, so we do not know what to do. We want to stay on the prior egoistic level, the way it used to be. Nevertheless, we need to reach the next level of our unity, where we are connected not by words, but hearts and minds.

Then our bodies, our world will gradually disappear from our senses. Their importance will disappear, they will simply fade away, and we will remain plugged only into this single network between us.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Transmitting Information Through the Senses” 10/31/11

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Question: Why are there so many allergies now? What is an allergy?

Answer: An allergy is unresponsiveness, a negative reaction to something.

What does it mean: “I’m allergic to you”? That is, I do not tolerate you, I have a negative reaction to you, I have unpleasant feelings while being in contact with you. This is an allergy. Today, it is manifested in absolutely everything. The fact is that we have poisoned everything that gets into us: air, water, and food.

After all, a person is a factory for processing what goes inside him. And all we take in are poisons, the type our body cannot process.

These are not natural poisons like eating spoiled fish, meat, fruits, or vegetables. You made such modified products yourself; you polluted the water and air yourself, which cause unnatural reactions in our body. Therefore, the body simply rebels, it does not know how to cope with it.

Allergies manifest themselves in us in almost everything. It is the basis of all disease, all our problems at the sensory, mental, and at any level, because we have been viciously poisoning ourselves for at least 100 years.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Allergy Treatment” 10/28/11

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Question: How do we awaken love for our friends?

Answer: If I think about it for a long time, if I try to connect with my friends and realize that otherwise I will not achieve the goal of creation and love for the Creator, then my heart gradually opens up, and I come to love my friends. We have to work on ourselves. It’s not easy.

Question: How can we plunge into the ocean of love at the convention, among so many friends and dear hearts where we all see and feel each other?

Answer: There is no hardship here. You just have to imagine that each of you opens your heart and lets all the participants of the convention in.

Question: Usually egoism does not allow us to accept love. How can we set our hearts to accept the love of our friends, to give them the opportunity to be bestowers?

Answer: This is a problem because in this case we feel obligated to others. This is what egoism resists.

Question: There is a powerful connection around the center of the ten. It is like a sphere in which the greatness of the Creator is revealed. When we move away from the center, connection is felt less. Is my task to feel the boundaries of connection and how to narrow or expand them?

Answer: No, by no means. You want the whole ten to be like one single whole.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/27/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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Question: If a person is given a certain portion of light and does not use it, can the light simply break him?

Answer: No! Then this light would reveal itself in him as darkness, and he is forced to run to the light. It is called “by a stick to happiness.”

We are growing from the bottom up. Until you are able to rise to the next level, you will not get it.

First, you have to set yourself up to receive, otherwise in what way will you feel the light? As much as the walls of your vessel grow, you feel its contents. Filling cannot happen any other way.

If a person is given a prospect and he does not use it, then it manifests itself in relation to him not as an opportunity of light, but as an opportunity of darkness, and the darkness thickens around him.

After all, what is a crisis? A crisis is our state that we should have felt as light, insight, saturation, receiving, confidence, happiness, warmth, security, and a good connection with others; but we feel the opposite because we did not prepare ourselves and did not unite to feel all this in the form of goodness.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The light is tearing apart” 9/29/11

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