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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The crises passing through the world are not just the constant crises of overproduction. Now it is already a global crisis. But the point is not that people are tired of buying and they are fed up. The fact of the matter is that a person has changed.

This is no longer a person who wants to grab the whole world for himself. He himself has changed so much that he no longer wants this world. This is the reason!

Offer me another 20 phones, 1,000 televisions, something else, and something else; there is no longer a craving for this!

No! Invent me something else. So what? The general depression that passes through the world in a strong wave suggests that a person today no longer needing material fulfillment. Everything has its own limit.

We come to: “What’s next? What will you fill me with?! What will you sell me?!” And what can you sell me? After all, I don’t want anything anymore!

First, sell me a desire to make me want. And the fact that you invest 50 – 60% of the cost of the product in advertising, with this nothing can be achieved. It does not work anymore. No matter how much you spin it on TV and on the Internet, everything is practically useless.

A person is not just oversaturated with toys, he is no longer interested in these toys at all.

A new kind of emptiness appears in him, an internal emptiness that in our world has no source of filling. That is the problem.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Make a Revolution” 2/10/12

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For the first time in the history of humanity we are moving to an inverse perception of the world. We have to change our own perception.

We do not have to change the economic, sociological, political structure, and various superstructures in society. We have to change ourselves. Therefore, the transitional period should be very simple, a period of self-education and self-training.

You cannot change anything further without changing yourself, because you have to be at the foundation of radically new changes. Accordingly, the transitional period is only a period of our own adaptation to the calls of nature.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Make a Revolution” 2/10/12

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There is a funny story about a seven-year-old girl Gili giving parking tickets to cars parked near her house. But she wrote on the infringement note: “Thanks for the great parking” and drew a heart.

Why do only children think about making others feel good? Apparently, children are smarter than adults. After all, it does not occur to us to give each other such cards and smiles at random passers-by. The egoism of an adult is very big because we have to rise on top of it, above all nations and countries.

Instead, we go along with our egoism. It controls us, not that we control it. It is good that we have such children next to us. Let’s hope that when they grow up, they will be able to change something in this world.

Although most likely, it is now, while the children are small that they can do such noble deeds from the bottom of their hearts. Later their egoism will grow, and they will join the common competition with everyone. Maybe they will even join some party, and then we will see them handing out completely different flyers.

At the moment children want to be guided by their good intentions. Cute children! But then their egoism will grow, and they will start distributing other leaflets, campaigning for some party or against someone. In such a way they will join in the squabble going on between everyone. Cute children will be corrupted and join the ranks of the fighting parties.

It is necessary to go by faith above reason and think that salvation is only in connection. Otherwise, this is the end. We can win and stand up against everyone, but not against our egoism, which will bury us.

To take control over your egoism means to appreciate something more than a sense of your own rightness. That is, you strive to cover all crimes with love and desire nothing but that. The main thing is connecting with other people. This is the only thing that counts.

But as a child grows, his will to receive grows and forces him to make larger and more far-reaching calculations. There is nothing one can do about it, what is left is only to accept by faith above reason that everyone is obliged to concede. Instead of trying to win and outwit the other, we need to think about how to outwit ourselves in order to be together with others. The war should be internal, not external.
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From KabTV’s “An Inside Look” 1/15/23

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Some doctors explain harmful addictions as a person experiencing a pleasant sensation and afterward he wants to repeat it. But over time, the sensitivity is dulled, and the sensation weakens. It turns out that a person is forced to constantly increase the dose in order to reach the initial sensation.

It is the same in ordinary life; we never manage to repeat the experienced pleasure with the same intensity. This is possible only in one case. If the desire to do good to others, to bestow, to share, becomes such an addiction, then we will really feel happy because this makes us similar to the upper force of nature, the Creator.

In this form, we come to the fact that there will be a wonderful world around us. We will hear trees, bushes, and birds singing, we will understand and feel that all of nature wants to share good with everyone.

All nature wants to sing only about love, connection, and a happy life. But because of man, there are birds singing sad songs. We are just not sensitive to it.

If we felt nature, we would hear this melody in the rustle of trees, bushes, and grass, in the voices of birds and animals, even in the howling of the wind. We would feel them singing about a good, beautiful world if we, humans, did not spoil nature, did not bring the force of malice and greed into it.

We just need to understand the general mechanism of nature and turn it in a good direction by turning there ourselves. This can be achieved in the shortest possible time. After all, if we change at our human degree, then all degrees below us will change, all of nature will calm down, and harmony, perfection, and world peace will be established in it.

Man will have only one addiction: listening to the voice of nature, to its inner strength aimed at mutual understanding and care, as it is said in the Prophets that the wolf and the lamb will live peacefully side by side.
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From KabTV’s “An Inside Look” 1/15/23

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People often ask me how I see the world of the future, what it will be based on, and how we will interact with each other in it.

Unfortunately, I must admit that I do not see it coming in the near future. There will be many more problems that accompany the birth of a new world. But when it is revealed, it will be a different world, one that exists in the minds of people who will understand that it is necessary to live in such a way that we do anything to avoid wars and hatred between us.

We must fight among ourselves so that no one has hatred for the other, but on the contrary, mutual love, respect, and desire for contact.

I hope that we will reach this. At least now all the events in the world are aimed at revealing what is good and what is bad between us.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/26/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Book of Zohar”

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