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A Turbulent Period for Humanity

293Humanity has entered such a turbulent period that there is nothing left to do but hold on. And we must hold on to one another. In this way, humanity will be brought to unity and forced to understand that we live in a global world. This is not some kind of global politics; it is simply that we are compelled to unite.

Globalism is not about the fact that I must take everyone into account in order to pursue my own policy or somehow manipulate the world. Globalism is about understanding that this world is shared, and if I do not care about someone else, then ultimately, I do not care about myself. Even from the point of view of egoism, I am involuntarily obliged to include the entire world within the bounds of my benevolent self-interest.

Nature will force us to this. We will still see what will happen. Mainly these will be environmental problems. In addition, we have not yet finished with the economic crisis; everything is still ahead. No matter how much we try to cover it up, it will explode.

Comment: Egoism is so adaptive. After some time, a person gets used to everything and is no longer afraid.

My Response: No, egoism does not “get used to” things; it develops. A person does not get used to anything. This is a mistaken understanding of what is happening to people. They do not adapt; they simply carry out the commands of their egoism. They cannot return to the past.

If they actually returned to the past and we froze at a previous level, even with a new egoism, then that would be adaptation. But we do not adapt; we follow the dictates of egoism, we become different, change ourselves, our nature, our society, our relationships, everywhere and in everything.

So what are we supposedly getting used to? Families are falling apart. Children leave their parents. The entire former system of relationships is changing. The greatness of science, the greatness of culture—all of this is declining.

Humanity (and especially those in power, together with the mass media, no matter how much they try to gloss it over) is still undergoing a very stormy renewal of the world. We are not getting used to it.

You want to say that people still continue to act egoistically? That is correct. But this too is planned by nature in order to bring humanity, so to speak, to the edge. And there will be blows, strong blows. It is precisely these that gradually lead us to awareness.

The point is not to strike. The point is that small blows should provoke the development of thought, awareness, comprehension, and feelings: “Where are these from, for what, and why? What is required of me? Who requires it? Nature? Does it have its own authority, its own power, its own opinion, its own goal, its own plan? Am I obliged to respond to this? Am I obliged to take it into account? Me? Who am I? A human being! I am above everyone!”

No, you are small. Who are you? What can you do? Entire villages burn down. A couple of hurricanes will sweep through and knock out all the electricity, or rivers that have not yet dried up will overflow their banks. And then such cold will come that all the pipes will burst and people will freeze. What can you do?

You will start thinking and suddenly realize that it is truly necessary to somehow come to one another’s aid. You will no longer walk around with your nose in the air, as if to say that you do not care about the whole world.

In no way do I want to speak contemptuously about anyone. I am saying that the blows of nature will force us to be different. When a person is in pain, he becomes human. When a serious illness is suddenly discovered, there is no time for polite conversation; he is already thinking about how to survive. This is how nature, the Creator, forces us.

Comment: People unite only when there are misfortunes.

My Response: But there will be misfortunes all the time! That will not be a problem. From now on, it will only keep escalating.

Question: But everyone, first of all, saves their own skin, don’t they?

Answer: People will have nowhere to go; there will be nowhere to save themselves! Neither America, nor Russia, nor Europe will have anywhere to escape to. The Asians will join in as well. Just wait.

Comment: But surely there is some boundary a person eventually crosses.

My Response: Crosses to where? They will beat him down to the point where he wants to die and will not be able to.

They will not allow it! The higher governance will not allow it. Can you imagine how hard it can be?

And on the other hand, we must develop and spread Kabbalah so that people see there is salvation; there is a method for changing oneself. Then you immediately change your entire perception of nature.

The Creator, nature, no longer becomes hostile toward you. You begin to enter into unison, into harmony with Him, and you feel goodness, paradise instead of hell.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Cal  2012”

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The Relevance of Dissemination

271Question: How should dissemination be expressed? Are there certain boundaries that we cannot cross?

Answer: The boundaries should be what is acceptable, decent, but without any fear, equivocation, or hints. Simply, in a direct way. Friends, look at what we have today: on one hand, the path of suffering, on the other hand, the path of correction. And you will immediately begin to feel yourselves and the world differently.

Yes, it is not easy. But it is simple if we are together. What does this mean? It means a change in social relations. It means new social relations that are built on brotherhood, camaraderie, mutual help, on the fact that we are elements of one single system. Let’s begin to build ourselves exactly as this system exists within us. This network exists between us.

Let’s first accept not to harm one another as a goal. Everywhere—at home, at work, on the road, wherever you are—let’s consider ourselves members of one family.

Comment: This instinct is characteristic of ants protecting their anthill.

My Response: What difference does it make? With the help of this, you attain the level of the Creator! And in fact, today you are an ant.

By fulfilling the laws of Kabbalah, we do not demean ourselves, but we elevate ourselves because in the correct connection between us, we reveal the upper force of nature.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. 2012” 8/25/10

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Nature Will Force Us to Correct Ourselves

95Question: Will nature, the Creator, put so much pressure on a person, but not allow him to die, that he will be ready to listen to the Kabbalists?

Answer: It is written in the Prophets, especially in Ezekiel, that merciful mothers will cook their children and eat them. That is one scenario. The second scenario is to take the method of correction and begin correcting oneself to resemble nature.

In principle, you understand that egoism develops. On one hand, there is the light; on the other hand, there is egoism, which gradually develops, becomes increasingly opposite to the light, and senses this opposition as various kinds of suffering: illnesses, many kinds of blows on the personal, social, political, and economic levels, at any level.

And to what extent will these sufferings continue? You will not be allowed to commit suicide; you must change your life. Nature will not give you this option; it will not allow you to succumb to drugs or something else. This is a temporary phenomenon.

You will not be able to use drugs. They will be lying next to you and you could take them, swallow them, and feel better. But “I can’t.” But you are suffering, aren’t you? “No, I cannot take it.”

Nature will force us to realize that we are opposite to it, that we are against the Creator. Like in Egypt with Pharaoh, something must be done; we must escape our egoism in order to soften this path and not climb the ladder of suffering within an ever-growing egoism.

We cannot reduce egoism; we cannot in any way limit its growth. And what can you do? You can only begin to correct it. The method of correction is Kabbalah. It shows you how, with the help of the force of the Creator, with the help of the light, to change the egoism. You have no other way out.

Only for this reason, we, those who have this method, must spread Kabbalah throughout the entire world as quickly as possible by any means. This is our task.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. 2012” 8/25/10

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A Look at the Rising Generation, Part 4

222Our Children Are Constrained by the Clothing of the Old World

Why is the young generation so problematic?

It is because we are meant to rise to the next level of human development.

And truthfully, even if all the parents, the government, the UN, and UNESCO engage in an educational program, nothing will come of it. I am telling you this as a Kabbalist.

We must understand that the next generation is obligated to be on a different level of development. And this does not mean being more educated, knowledgeable, or successful. It means developing new instruments of perception.

The kind of communication that exists today between people is destroying us. Children connect with one another through computers; they have no need to know anything, they freely draw any information from there. Humanity is obligated to rise above all this and reveal a new world.

And as always, when transitioning from one degree to another, every generation becomes disappointed in everything it has achieved, in what can no longer satisfy it, and wishes to rise above it. And then we trample everything we have and move on to the next level.

So now, too, we must rise to a very important and special degree, to the revelation of a new world. Therefore, first of all we are forced to become disappointed in everything we have in this world. What is most precious to us—our children, grandchildren, the next generation—we see how empty they are, and we have nothing to give them.

We have prepared death for them. Everything we built for the future generation—10, 20, 30 years ago—has turned the world into a place unfit for living. And that is why our children are as they are.

This decline will continue further and further until humanity understands that there is no choice but to rise to another level of perceiving reality and another level of existence. And then they will destroy the entire old world; they will no longer be able to bear it or live in it.

They will throw away all the computers, screens, and mobile phones when they feel that none of this can fill them. For now it still seems to them that it fills them, but gradually they begin to grow tired of these games that are imposed on them. This pain, suffering, and disappointment, the hopelessness of the present state must accumulate to the limit, and then this generation will break all former values and will desire to reveal a new world.

And the revelation of the new world is exactly what the wisdom of Kabbalah speaks about. I very much hope that this will happen soon, and that I will still witness it in my lifetime. I appeal to all parents: we must think about this, and prepare this world, this foundation, from which it will be easier for the young generation to rise to the next degree!
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From Kab  Radio Station 103FM, 1/8/16

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No Need to Pray for Rain

740.01Comment: Global drought trends show increasing frequency, severity, and areas of land impacted.

My Response: We have so disfigured nature that it simply cannot make up for all that we have done in it. There is a limit to what a person can do and not feel what they are doing. It is like in a car when there are problems, but you can still drive, and somehow move forward, and there are those when it is all over.

Comment: It seems that nature teaches us hard lessons.

My Response: No, I would not say that. Nature protects itself very well, it tries to soften everything. There is a very large margin of safety in it. But we have already crossed all imaginable boundaries.

Question: We know that water is very important in the life of any organism, and humans in particular. Ninety percent of chemical elements are water soluble; the human body is all irrigated and saturated with water.

What is water in human life?

Answer: Water is the foundation. From the point of view of Kabbalah, it is the light of Hassadim, without which one cannot exist. It holds everything together. Not just water, but the very property that it communicates, dissolves and allows you to flow from one state to another. The special properties of water, freezing point and dew point, are very important properties.

Water is practically what gives life to our planet. Of course, nothing will happen without it.

We are already in a state that can be called irreversible. We have to wait until this “patient” finishes his torment and that is it.

There is nothing we can do anyway. We cannot curb our selfishness; we cannot curb our appetites. Grabbing more and more—for what? It doesn’t matter what for. We cannot! Selfishness just makes us do it, that is all. It forces us to do absolutely irrational things. And as a result, we get…

Question: If we return to water, to its physical and spiritual properties. You said that it helps to transfer from one state to another, to break down, and to dissolve. How can a person learn this flowing property of water?

Answer: This is possible only if a person rises above himself, only if he does not use his selfish desire, but cultivates the property of water. This is an altruistic desire.

The property of bestowal, the property of love, the property of connection with others, is the property of water. That is why it is so important and everything is based on it. Inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature exists only because of this. A person has to do something with himself to match the world around him. He is the opposite of it.

Question: We know that in ancient times people called for rain and prayed to the rain god. And what should they do now so that nature becomes merciful to them and gives them water?

Answer: I do not think prayer can make it rain. Let them try.

It is just that nature has to react normally. One act of man against one act of nature. That is, if man destroys nature through his actions, then nature will destroy man by her actions. That is all that is going to happen.

Comment: We see that such abnormal cases occur in southern countries. But now Europe is also suffering from the heat; temperatures are reaching more than 40 degrees Centigrade.

My Response: Europe, Russia, and Siberia will all suffer from the heat, and even more so than the southern countries.

Question: And what happens in the spiritual world? Is there a shortage of the light of Hassadim, the properties of bestowal and love?

Answer: People who enter the spiritual world must create the light of Hassadim themselves from their altruistic actions, from working on their egoism. Otherwise, they will not succeed.

Question: When they are organized in this way, what can this equivalent of water do in spirituality?

Answer: If they organize the light of Hassadim, then they will be able to receive any abundance based on it. Then life develops on its basis.

Question: How does this happen? Where does it come from?

Answer: The spiritual world has everything in abundance. It depends only on a person how to reveal the light of Hassadim and then attract the light of Hochma to it.

It depends only on the person, on his kind attitude to others and to nature.

Question: How can we connect these two entities: the spiritual component, where there is a lot of water, everything is saturated and nourished, and the depleted relationships, the depleted Earth without water, without the light of Hassadim in this world?

Answer: You cannot do anything with our world. It is a consequence of what we produce in the spiritual world. Therefore if we cannot be kind, good, and correspond to the higher world, then this is what we are supposed to do in our world. I do not see any prospects. No.

Unless people eventually realize that they need to listen to the calls of Kabbalists and actually engage in relationships with each other in order to truly become one benevolent family, then our globe simply cannot stand us and will lead to us disappearing from the face of the earth.

Question: Is there a recipe for such an acute situation?

Answer: There is. Tell all the people that everything depends only on their kind attitude toward each other. Otherwise we will die.

Question: If everyone turns around to face each other now, will it rain and the drought will disappear?

Answer: Yes, real life will begin.

Otherwise we will be forced to happiness with a stick. Otherwise you will not get anywhere. There is a certain time, a certain atmosphere, a certain behavior of people where it is possible to do all this. But if we cannot take advantage of it, then other problems happen and evil times come.

Question: What are your wishes for people who suffer from the heat?

Answer: To get smarter. We need to understand that we don’t need to pray for rain. We don’t need to do anything with nature or anything else. We need to ask the Creator to help us become wiser and begin to apply altruistic relationships between us. That is all.

Everything will depend on it because the property of rain, the property of Hassadim, is the good dependence of people on each other.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/23/19

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Living Together Is Easier than Living Alone

423.02Question: Statistical studies show that a person with more friends has a greater chance of feeling happy. Why is that?

Answer: It would seem that friends should bring me even more trouble than happiness. After all, they pass their moods on to me, and I worry about everything that happens to them—good and bad. So I should actually be more upset because of them, since usually a person has more problems in life than joys.

But the point is that people tend to hide their problems and talk about their successes. Therefore, it seems to me that those around me live normally and prosperously. And even if others are not very happy, a shared misfortune is not as frightening. I see that others have the same problems as I do, and I no longer measure my condition against some ideal of happiness.

I understand that I am no worse off than others and that this is simply life. I accept this as a given and lower my standards to the general level accepted in society.

In addition, I see that commercial and industrial systems are built to make life easier for everyone. This is why we unite and create cities and factories. Together, it is easier to survive in this world, and we have more opportunities to enjoy life than each person on their own. Someone living as a hermit in a forest faces a very difficult existence, if they survive at all.

Clearly, connection among all of us benefits us. When problems arise, they become shared and are divided among everyone. By living in society, we learn from each other and take example from others. Therefore, the more I am included in society, the more support and sense of stability I can receive from it.

Everything bad and good that happens in life ultimately evens out. Even though in the end society may bring me more problems than good, these will be the same problems that everyone has, and so I will agree with them.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 242 – Happiness And Social Ties,” 10/17/13

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Nature Has Begun to Remove Its Protective Screen, Part 4

761.3Nature protects us by creating a restriction, that is, our impact on nature manifests itself only to the extent of our inner development. As a merciful judge assigning punishment, it takes into account, not only the crimes, but also our ability to understand and realize them.

Nature, as it were, filters our negative influences and gradually reduces them billions of times. As a result, we exert only the slightest influence on nature and in a certain form only in order to learn from it and understand that we actually influence it.

First of all, man must take an integral part in nature at the human level, that is, in relation to one’s fellow human beings, each of whom must understand that they all are one body. A person must ensure one’s correction and not hope that simply protecting the environment (the inanimate, vegetative, and animate) will help him or her. This is the most fundamental point.

Even if we put all the waste into “recycling,” that is, into secondary usage, and even if we clean up the entire Atlantic Ocean from waste, this will not help us save nature. The integral relationship of man to nature is expressed at the level of thought and desire—this is our main impact on nature.

The law of universal integral connection operates in nature because nature is the Creator! Even if a wolf kills a sheep and eats it, it does so on the orders of nature, which instructs it to kill sick individuals.

If you destroy all the wolves in the forest, all animals will get sick, and the whole forest will die out. In nature, everyone lives for the sake of others. It does so instinctively, without knowing it. The wolf does not know it lives in order to eat sick animals.

But people do not need to eat each other to survive. They harm each other only because of their egoism.

Instead of “protecting” nature on a physical level, from it we need to learn the instinctive right connection in which all parts of nature exist. We need to base human society on the same laws. What animals do in physical actions, we need to examine and fulfill in spiritual actions.

People’s thoughts and desires are projected onto lower levels, as an application to the inanimate, plant and animal worlds. Therefore, we must build a human society in an integral form and treat nature as a general system that we are a part of.

Rather than looking down on nature, or from the side, we must feel that all of nature is the upper force, the Creator, and humanity must become an integral part of it. With our correct participation, the whole of nature will come into balance.

All imbalances in nature are shown to man to bring himself into balance. Then he will see, in his application to nature, how it all returns to balance. Earth will turn into a Garden of Eden, into a perfect system, if man corrects himself.

If we do not do this, nature will ruthlessly teach us, which is what we have recently been seeing.
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From the Conversation 9/6/17, “Climate Cataclysms”

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If Joy is Shared by All

936There is a special phenomenon in the influence of society on a person. If I face a problem together with a large society, it is divided among everyone and I do not feel that I am alone with it. If I were to fall ill with a rare and severe disease, I would be terribly anxious. But if it is an epidemic and everyone around is sick, then it is not as frightening.

The trouble is instantly shared with the entire society where I am simply one among all. Therefore, my fear is no longer the full fear of the problem itself, but it is divided among everyone else, reduced to one millionth. This happens regardless of my desire, because I am connected with others in one system. So, my relative part in the common trouble is only one millionth.

This does not mean that the trouble will not happen to me, it will happen. But the feeling of fear and threat is divided among everyone in the perception of people. To the extent that I am connected with others, I worry less about hardships.

But if joy comes, it does not decrease when shared by all. Because joy is felt together with everyone. Misfortune is felt within oneself, but joy is felt outside, between us. The benevolent force that created the entire world acts on everyone and is not divided. If joy comes, everyone rejoices in full measure.

Moreover, shared joy increases the joy of each one. For example, news comes of victory in a war. That joy is not divided by a million, leaving me with one millionth of happiness. On the contrary, it is multiplied by a million, and I feel joy a million times greater! I go out into the street, see everyone celebrating, and I am filled with happiness, completely differently than if I were alone at home.

The force of unity has a unique, wondrous quality. It divides misfortune among all, while multiplying joy and happiness among all. This follows from the very source of creation, from the fact that we emerged from the point of the Big Bang, from one single force.

Therefore, today we reveal that all of nature is one system. The closer we come to this force, the more we resemble the unified system of nature, the more we gain, and we gain greatly, instead of one millionth, we get one multiplied by a million!

If, through integral education, we learned to use this correctly, we would attain the pinnacle of happiness.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 242 – Happiness And Social Ties,” 10/17/13

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When There Is Nowhere to Run

272I do not believe at all in a positive change in the world. I believe only that humanity will bring itself to such a state, I hope not to the final one, where it will understand that it must change, and seriously.

Question: So are you saying that humanity will change only when it is horrified?

Answer: Yes, it must see its own end.

Question: But you surely have some hope? After all, you are conveying something, one way or another. Many, many people watch you.

Answer: I hope people will see that they are heading toward a quick and inevitable end. And then, perhaps, they will understand that there must be some way out. But they do not see this way out.

Tell people today: “Let’s treat one another well.” And what then?

Comment: For them, this sounds like something childish. And for you it is something very high.

My Response: It is a very high approach, but unfortunately, it sounds unattainable. Although I do not laugh at it, and I understand that, in principle, it must happen. But how much suffering must humanity still endure before it says: “Enough!”?

Question: But one step before the abyss, what thought will suddenly come to humanity or to a person? What thought? One step before the abyss.

Answer: I believe that when people understand that they are losing everything, for example, their children. Something so terrifying that there is nowhere left to run, nowhere to turn away, and they must make a decision.

In such a case, perhaps they will agree to change something. Because change will still come from above, but only when we are ready for it. And readiness, it looks like this: when children and grandchildren are under the threat of death, disappearance, extermination, then we will be able to do something with ourselves.

Comment: I see. But this is a formula where I cannot stop along the way, but must reach that point.

My Response: Yes. We are moving toward this, and we cannot stop.

Comment: So neither my reason nor my logic will work.

My Response: There must be a feeling, the deepest inner feeling, that a dead end is inevitable.

But let us hope that, on one hand, through our dissemination we will accomplish something. And on the other hand, humanity must see its own end and decide.

There must be a way out. Otherwise, our entire existence is meaningless. But how can we make this happen quickly, smoothly, and perhaps even somehow in a controlled manner? That is the problem.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 11/14/25

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The Balance in Nature Depends Only on Us

707All parts of nature, except the human being, are capable of establishing a special connection between themselves, and through the unique force that arises from their uniting into one body, one desire, they can influence nature with tremendous power. This influence is far greater than that of a hurricane, a tornado, an atomic explosion, a volcanic eruption, or a tsunami.

The positive force of unity that we can generate between us, and with which we can affect nature, is capable of calming all the natural disasters that have been occurring so frequently in recent times, and have been destroying the very foundations of our lives.

Everything depends on whether we finally understand that we are one of nature’s species, one of its levels: still, vegetative, animate, and human. We belong to nature and are included in its mechanism, rather than standing above it. It is precisely we who—through our improper participation in nature—cause all the destruction within it, through our improper participation in nature, through our negative attitude toward one another, and through our unwillingness to connect.

If we begin to unite and take each other into account, we will be able to produce a positive, benevolent force among us that can stop all the blows of nature that are already approaching us. This is how we will bring order to the world, because everything depends on the highest level that humanity is capable of reaching, that is, the level of thought, awareness, and desire.

Therefore I strongly recommend: let us unite, sit together, talk and think about how through our connection we can influence the whole of reality. It is within our power, so let us carry out such an experiment and observe it like in a laboratory. I believe we can learn a great deal from this about how to influence nature and see its reaction.

In light of the disasters that are approaching us, let us become more sensitive to nature and begin treating it as our partner. Nature treats us so harshly, as if a cruel force is acting within it. But in essence, nature wants to awaken us so that we will begin to respond to it correctly.

Let us connect with one another, unite our hearts, and influence nature with the force of goodness. Perhaps then we will see hurricanes, tornadoes, and the frightening blows prepared for us by nature begin to calm.

We are all part of a single mechanism. All of humanity, in essence, belongs to one level of nature’s development: the human level. And we have already discovered that we exist in integral connection with one another. We now understand that we all depend on each other. So let us unite, all of us together, whether we are in Miami, in North Carolina, in Cuba, or in the Dominican Republic.

We must understand that we are one humanity, and we must unite and repent for having brought such powerful blows of nature upon ourselves. This must be done by everyone together, regardless of whether you live far from the places struck by natural disasters—in Australia, in Asia, or in South America, which have not yet felt such catastrophes.

We are all under a common, serious threat to our planet Earth, so let us give our Earth a positive force: the force of love, connection, and mutual bestowal. And this applies to all of humanity, wherever each one of us may be.

In this way we can sweeten the judgments nature places before us and come to a beautiful life. Our small planet will turn into a garden of paradise, a single shared home for all of us. Let us make it kind.

When I see all the natural disasters occurring in the world, I pray that people will understand that they belong to one mechanism. And if this mechanism becomes connected by the force of goodness, it will be able to balance all of nature’s blows and bring much calm, wonderful development, confidence, and satisfaction to our world, to Earth, to human society.

We can attain a miraculous life; it depends only on us! Let us unite and see how exquisitely, sensitively nature responds to our attitude toward each other.

Wishing you success!
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From a conversation about Bringing Nature into Balance, 9/11/17

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