So far the world has been busy figuring out how to dodge the next blow from nature to protect itself. But one way or another, the blow comes. The question is how to resist this blow within ourselves. We have the opportunity to make it so that we do not even feel that we were hit or that there was a tsunami.

If we succeed in controlling our inner world, we will see a completely different reality, one that supposedly exists outside of us. Then we will understand that in fact nothing changes on the outside. All tsunamis and earthquakes occur only within us, in our perception.

The future is a law that exists within us, and is realized through the general force of nature within which we find ourselves. This force is constant and unchanging, and we are constantly changing within it. That is why it seems to us that the world is changing. But in reality, it is not. The only ones who change are us.

In that case we can turn to our own changes, and try to take control of them in order to determine our future, not only whether there will be a tsunami or not, but ultimately life and death.

We can make our lives beautiful and comfortable. We will not need air conditioning or heating; we will feel what we want to feel. There will be no sense of the slightest inconvenience or discomfort. One can create a truly heavenly life for oneself.

Question: What is “time” anyway?

Answer: In order to bring us to the correct perception of reality and teach us to manage the concept of time, that is, our own changes, we are placed in two systems: giving and receiving. We find ourselves sometimes in one system and sometimes in the other, one good and one bad, an altruistic system of giving and love and an egoistic system of receiving and hatred.

This alternating transition from the rule of one system to the rule of the other is what we feel as the flow of time. This is what gives rise to the concept of time in this world.

Time is our sensation, not the rotation of the sun, the moon, or the Earth, which also take place within us.

Question: Does the solar system also exist within us?

Answer: Of course, because nothing exists except the human being who imagines the universe this way.

One moment I fall under the governance of the altruistic system of giving, and at another under the governance of the egoistic system of receiving. And these oscillations between the two systems, like a pendulum—tick-tock, tick-tock—create the sensation of time.
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From KabTV’s  New Life 934 – What Is “The Future?”, 12/19/17

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Question: We still need to understand that on the earthly level, in this world, we cannot do anything ourselves with these hands or with this head. Is that right?

Answer: We cannot.

Comment: And all our attempts now to make society better, to make the world better…

My Response: Again, the same old games.

Comment: The same games that will lead nowhere. And humanity still keeps looking for some earthly leader who will…

Answer: It simply does not know how to use the forces of nature! That is what Kabbalah gives us, what Kabbalah explains to us. Kabbalah tells us how to reach this positive force of nature, how to constantly draw it upon ourselves and thereby change the world.

What does “world” mean? It is what I see and feel around me either with my bad eye or with my good eye—that is what I call the world.

So, how do I change my evil attitude toward the world to a good one? This is the entire science of Kabbalah, the science of receiving, of correctly perceiving the place where you are—this world.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 2/5/26

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Evil rules the world. And God forbid, but we can still see it all.

Question: And no prohibitions will help? No agreements will help? Nothing will help whatsoever?

Answer: Nothing

Question: Is the elimination of nuclear weapons also impossible?

Answer: It is impossible. How can you eliminate them? Do you know who has them in the world today?

Question: Meaning, the world is loaded with weapons of mass destruction?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Will it be brimming even more?

Answer: No one is holding us back. Who can hold us back? You cannot restrain egoism, and this is what you get in return. Here, we need a serious hope in the upper force that would gradually sober us up.

Question: What does it have to tell us?

Answer: That there is no other way but to simply lay down our arms and begin to engage in positive connections between us, in the entirely new possibilities that are opening up for humanity.

We can’t continue down the old paths, not with thought, not with the mind, not with feelings, not with anything! Everything that has been in the past was built on absolute egoism. We must not use it any longer.

Comment: There is only one thing left—to see the ego as an enemy, and to see another person as a friend.

Answer: Very beautiful.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 1/23/26

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Question: When we speak about an integral state, do we mean society, or according to Kabbalah is it a single spiritual organism?

Answer: It is one and the same. We are speaking about a society that begins to sense itself as one common whole. Within it, a collective mind, a collective feeling, collective needs, and a collective outlook on everything emerge. That is, the entire society becomes one unified whole and begins to feel all levels of nature as fully interconnected. And when a person includes this vast nature within himself, sees it and feels it inside himself, he begins to internalize its program.

As part of this program, he starts to perceive it in its entirety. It is as if he sees himself as having originated billions of years ago and as continuing his development billions of years into the future because he begins to be included in this immense organism of integral nature. He starts to feel all the forces he exists within, and understands how this works, how it influences him, and how he can influence himself, his destiny, and his future, as the only active element in nature, not instinctively, but consciously.

However, he will attain this only when he is integrally included in all levels of nature. Then he rises to the highest level of nature, to the level of the Creator, so to speak. There is no Creator as such; nature itself is the Creator. But a person reaches such a level.

Question: How can we define the very concept of society, since society and an organism are perceived as different things? Society is sometimes compared to an organism, but this is a metaphor, an image.

Answer: These concepts are perceived as different in a society where all the elements are not interconnected. If it is an organism broken into parts, into fragments, like a sick person in a dreadful state, when all the systems are out of balance, then you are right. That is the state of today’s society that we are trying somehow to save from destruction, from the complete disintegration of all its systems. But when all systems are in mutual support and balance, each one and all together, like the human body, then this is simply an integral society.

Comment: So we must draw a clear line between the notions of society that prevail in sociology. There everything is very simple: there is a simple society, a primitive community, a tribe, and there is a complex society, which must be highly differentiated.

My Response: Primitive communities, by the way, were practically integral communities. For them this was based on an instinctive level, as in the animal world.

But we differ from the animal world in that egoism has grown in us. And now we begin to unite on a different level.

Animals are instinctively united in an integral community. Nature holds them together through its general law. Then, above our animal body, egoism grows, and we must begin to integrate above it, together with it. That is, egoism itself gives us a new level of integration.
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From KabTV’s “Integral World,” 11/26/12

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Now you can understand their words about the verse, “I, the Lord, will hasten it in its time.” The Sanhedrin (98) interpreted, “Not rewarded—in its time; rewarded—I will hasten it.”

Thus, there are two ways to attain the above-mentioned goal: through their own attention, which is called a “path of repentance.” If they are rewarded with it, “I will hasten it” will be applied to them. This means that there is no set time for it, but when they are rewarded, the correction ends, of course.

If they are not awarded the attention, there is another way, called “path of suffering,” as our sages said, Sanhedrin 97, “I place upon them a king such as Haman, and they will repent against their will,” meaning in its time, for in that there is a set time, and they will want it (Baal HaSulam “Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot,” p.7).

Before us there are two paths for attaining the very same goal, and we stand at their crossroads. Every moment we must feel ourselves at this crossroads that determines our free choice. And the choice here is very simple: to go by the path of light or by the path of suffering.

There is no third path! We are obliged to advance by one of these two paths, and at every moment we must decide how to take the next step. The foot is already suspended in the air; choose where to place it: on the path of light or on the path of suffering?!

A moment will pass, and again you will have to make the same choice. From above, your foot is lifted, compelling you to take a step, and you must decide where to lower it, onto which of the roads. And according to this, you will receive the forces and means for advancement, because in any case you are obliged to move forward.

But if you advance by the path of Beito (natural development, in its time), then the forces of nature push you forward against your egoism, since you wish to walk in accordance with your ego. And therefore, forces act upon you that oppose your egoism and try to keep you in bestowal.

Through the path of Achishena (accelerating time), you yourself begin to persuade yourself, through the environment, that it is worthwhile to be in bestowal, and in this way, you draw the surrounding light, which returns you to the good, upon yourself.

On the path of Beito, you receive blows, and you learn from them, until in the end you also come to a request, a prayer for correction, and advance, just as when following the path of Achishena.

And if you immediately take the path of light, you save time on the first section of the path where you would have lost it by not wishing to listen and to apply your own efforts.

There is no time for deliberation over which path to place your foot on! Everything depends on the preparation of the environment.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/4/10, Baal HaSulam “Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot”

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Question: A pack of wolves can take care of a disabled, crippled, or old animal. They feed him chewed food like puppies and can even catch fleas from him. But there is an addition here anyway: “In a hungry year, the pack cannot take on the responsibility of feeding elderly animals. And the elderly accept it.” Is this also a matter of survival?

Answer: It is a matter of survival and necessity for the pack. And that is why there are individuals who sacrifice themselves for the sake of the life of the whole pack.

Comment: Let’s build it up: they take care of the disabled, the elderly…

My Response: Of everyone.

Question: And we should take care of the elderly?

Answer: Yes. But if there are such conditions that it is impossible to take care of the weak…

Question: This is a very difficult question indeed! How is it selected?

Answer: The one who provides great benefits for the future generation is chosen.

Question: So, young and strong?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So the principle is still the survival of the pack, the survival of society?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: And now, if possible, please draw conclusions.

My Response: Conclusions: we certainly have a lot to learn from wolves. We need to do something to improve ourselves. We definitely need to think about the organization of our society: how to restructure it and make it healthier, and what educational programs we should adopt? For our children, for our grandchildren, for the future generation.

We have several generations in front of us, and we must change the social order for them.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 12/29/25

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Comment: In the 1960s, the CIA experimented with LSD and other drugs, and at some point they really did change the world. That is how the hippie revolution began.

In the end, this led people to drop out of society because they saw a little more. As people who took drugs describe their sensations, they could “see with hearing” and “hear with sight.”

My Response: There is nothing like that! It is only a disruption of the brain’s functioning, nothing more.
What happened to the hippies in practice? They lived in a drug-induced fog for several years, and then ended up thrown onto the “scrap heap.” By age 40, they were left without a profession, broken, incapable of anything.

The generation of the 60s had to painfully endure this until they passed on. Humanity understood that drugs disconnect people from reality, and rejected LSD and all the other substances.

Why do we reject them? Let us spray drugs over seven billion people, let them have fun! Why should they suffer?

But we cannot! Nature, the higher governance, does not allow this because we disconnect from reality. We are obligated to reach a certain special, predetermined result of our existence on this Earth. We must reach unity, a single organism. And if this does not happen, then our whole life has no meaning.

That is why people will never agree to drugs. This is programmed in nature. The program that operates within us is aimed at making us check and confirm once again that any disconnection from reality is unacceptable. That is how we are built. We cannot do anything about it!

With time we will not take drugs or alcohol at all. Perhaps more years will pass, but we will still have to tear this out of ourselves. I am sure such a time will come. Society will force itself to change, otherwise it will see that it is doomed to extinction.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalah and LSD, Part 1” 10/6/10

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The main problem in educating people lies in the fact that we do not teach them to find what is most important for themselves—a goal. Moreover, in this regard one must be truly independent, and place oneself in a state where neither the media, nor society, nor anything else influences you, where none of that matters to you, and you can withstand everyone.

This is scarier than a battle because you must endure a powerful attack of information, various ideas of a frenzied crowd, the so-called values of humanity. Where would you get the inner strength for this, the ability to compare things, to rise above it all, to disregard everything else where necessary? This is not simple at all. One must be taught this.

If we do not teach this to the growing generation, they will be tossed around like tumbleweeds, and will remain unhappy all their lives. We can see how people cannot find themselves. We think that out of seven billion people, 99% are simply not suited for anything. No, they were never taught. Each person has their own individuality.

When you give a person the opportunity to find themselves and their goal, their point among this vast number of people, they suddenly begin to understand themselves, and see that everything around is precisely adjusted to them.

Therefore, the most important thing is the education of a person: to be where one needs to be, to independently choose one’s own path in life, and to connect correctly with everyone else in order to realize this path.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Everyone Should Be the Same” 10/1/10

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Comment: The stronger and more experienced a leader, the more actively he suppresses all quarrels, the less strife and aggression in the pack, the friendlier the atmosphere and the more cohesive the group. Suppressing quarrels can be done with quite harsh methods.

My Response: Such is the law of any community, even an animal one. Not to mention human.

Question: So should one be both hard and soft at the same time?

Answer: I do not know about being soft. But he must be very decisive, confident, and willful.

Question: So all the quarrels, all the poor attitudes, slander, suppress it all?

Answer: Of course.

Comment: Tough… He will not be loved.

My Response: They will fear him; this is most important. Therefore, they will respect and obey.

Question: Is this leadership? He has a goal ahead of him—to bring his pack…

Answer: When with wolves, do as wolves do.

Question: The chief leads the pack, leads his own out of traps, plans and begins the hunt; he is the first to rush at enemies and prey.

What does it mean to be the first at everything?

Answer: To take on all the blows, all the issues that arise in his pack.

Question: Are we talking about human society?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So he is the first to take all the blows? Is he worried about all this?

Answer: It is like his own family.

Question: You perceive the leader as a father? And society as my family?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And if, as we have now, there was a blow-up, does he take responsibility?

Answer: If he does not take responsibility, he is immediately removed. There is no such thing among animals. He has to assume responsibility.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 1/8/26

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Question: The flapping of each goose’s wings creates an updraft that supports the birds flying behind.

If people move toward a goal, let’s say that they understand that they must move together. What are “wingbeats” for people?

Answer: For people, this can exist if they define a single higher goal and understand how to achieve it.

Question: It says here that this updraft from the movement of wings supports the birds flying behind. How do they support them? With what?

Answer: The same applies in battle: those who go in front set an example for those who follow. That is, the wingbeat is the example you show.

Question: When a bird breaks formation, it begins to experience sharp air resistance, which forces it to quickly return to formation and continue flying with less effort.

Suppose people set high goals and can’t endure it, they drop out, leave. How can it be made so that in their mind and heart there is the thought that a lone individual won’t break through, that to do so one must be in this group?

Answer: They must all be preoccupied with one goal. Then some will go in front, stay together, and others will hold on behind them, and in this way they will all reach the goal together.

Question: And those who hold on behind understand that they are weaker, so they hold on to their friends; will they have the thought that “I won’t break through alone”?

Answer: Of course.

Question: That is if the importance of the goal is constantly maintained?

Answer: Yes.

Question: When the leader gets tired, it flies to the back of the flock, and another bird replaces it. In life, leaders—politicians, those who lead people, states—don’t feel responsibility. They leave only at elections. There isn’t such a thing as “I’m tired, I give my place to another.” What must a leader have for this thought to arise?

Answer: The importance of the goal of the entire flock.

Comment: I see, the importance of the goal is the peak, the foundation.

My Response: Yes. He must understand that he is responsible for ensuring that the flock continues the path and reaches the goal.

Comment: Even if he won’t be there, even if he…

My Response: That doesn’t matter.

Comment: Meaning his thoughts are not about himself at all, but about the flock.

My Response: Yes.

Comment: That is the most important thing! We seem to have had such an example. Begin left that way, on his own. He suddenly stood up in the middle of a meeting and said, “I’m tired.”

My Response: Yes. That was a great decision.

Comment: And then he sat quietly for ten years, gave almost no interviews. And that’s how he departed.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 1/5/26

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