Comment: An Englishman, Brendon Grimshaw, bought a small uninhabited island in the Seychelles for £8,000. He bred over 100 giant tortoises, which can live only there, and more than 2,000 species of birds. Many times, people attempted to buy the island for more than 50 million dollars. With that money, Brendon could have afforded anything he wished, yet he refused to sell the island. He said: “I don’t want the island to become a luxury playground for the rich. Better that it becomes a national park for everyone.”

My Response: All of this is good. There are people who take pleasure in such things. But what is the meaning?

Question: If one brings joy to others, is that considered meaningful?

Answer: It is the meaning of our life if our life has a meaning.

Comment: But this man wants to bring joy to others, so they can visit and enjoy such a place.

My Response: A good man.

Question: And who, in your view, is truly a good person?

Answer: Someone wise, strong, capable of lifting a human being above the boundary between life and death, so that he may attain the upper force, the Creator. Otherwise, what meaning is there?

Question: So a person must be a tremendous egoist, greater than the whole of humanity, in order to lead others to the goal?

Answer: Yes, all of his other qualities exist precisely in order to include people in this goal.

Question: And how does such a person know that he is leading toward the right goal?

Answer: He must be a special person.

Question: And what is the right goal?

Answer: The right goal is the connection of all people above their egoism, above everything that separates them. All people, this is the total, highest connection of all humanity.

And if this goal truly stands before a person, then we can use it as a “spaceship” and fly anywhere we want, to such an “island” somewhere in the “Pacific Ocean” of the universe, where everything is already prepared for us.

Question: And take not just a small group, but all of humanity?

Answer: Of course.

Question: This must be the goal?

Answer: Precisely this goal of all humanity.

In principle, we can achieve this right here. Why fly somewhere? To some island in the Pacific? Why? We can turn the entire Earth into such an island. Otherwise, look at what is happening. We are already in a state where nothing may remain except a few tiny islands! It is very alarming.

Question: Perhaps that is why Kabbalists have always seemed too sharp, too harsh, too direct to outsiders?

Answer: They have no other mode of expression. They speak the truth and soften it, but even so, to the average person their language seems very harsh. “People don’t speak this way. One should speak gently, democratically, liberally, more about love.”

And what do you say? “If you do not do this, then, unfortunately, you will die. The glaciers will flood you; the sun will scorch you, and so on. You see where you are heading.”

Question: To crises and so on?

Answer: Yes, otherwise, there will be nothing. Nothing! We must clearly understand that a very strict law of nature is before us and it is beginning to enter its true realization. I am frightened for humanity.

Question: So we must bring them out of this state by any means?

Answer: Who could have imagined a year ago that the ecological situation would change so drastically? Ice caps are melting, there are hurricanes, earthquakes, everything, and humanity does not care. It is like in a drunken stupor. “We carry on. We don’t care. We fear nothing.”

Question: You believe that soothing humanity is harmful?

Answer: If I see a sick person before me, and I see that one path leads him directly to the grave, and another will let him live and develop, how can I not say something?

That is why Kabbalists speak correctly and accurately. But even then, only to the extent that people can hear them without shutting their ears.

Question: So they still soften it? Meaning, you also do not tell the whole truth?

Answer: No. I cannot.

Question: Is it important to you that people hear you? Do you think they will?

Answer: I have no choice, I must do this. I have no other option. I live in constant disappointment, on the one hand, and constant tension, striving, and inspiration on the other. You can see both states in me at the same time. And what can you do?

Question: What gives you inspiration given the state of the world today?

Answer: I work. This is my work. And its reward is that there is no reward! No reward at all!

Why do I do it? That is an entirely different story.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/7/19

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Comment: Winston Churchill is a symbol of an era—calm, confident, determined, with his ever-present cigar. He was not only a great statesman, but also an artist and writer. His aphorisms are still well known today. It is worth listening to his principles of leadership.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

My Response: I do not think we need to sacrifice. It is not sacrifice; it is a rational distribution of strength and destiny when you give everything to the upper governance and, in accordance with it, flow toward it at every moment.

This is not a sacrifice but a very wise, correct, and true decision. Because in this way I lean upon and cleave to the upper governance. What else could there be? Would you suggest that I act according to earthly logic or some philosophy?

Comment: So if I acted for myself, for my ego, that would be a sacrifice: “I sacrifice.” But if I lean on “there is none else besides Him”…

My Response: I believe this is the only choice a person has. And therefore for me it is not a sacrifice, but quite the opposite. To discover that this is how one should act, that is a great gift.

Question: They say: “Relax and enjoy.” Is this in that same realm?

Answer: Yes. Every moment, no matter what happens. You understand how everything is arranged! Everything is for a person’s good—but with this condition.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

My Response: In truth, there are no unfavorable ones. Some are better, some worse, some threatening, some gentle that make you relax.

Question: But from your approach, are all of them favorable?

Answer: All are favorable, all are necessary, all stem from the root of your soul, and each one corresponds to the next moment that you must correct. Therefore you must accept them as proper and necessary, and respond accordingly.

Every moment is right; it is what you need to receive in life.

Question: Do you receive what you are meant to receive?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And is it precisely because you are aligned with the law that only the upper one leads you?

Answer: Yes. You work together with Him, like in a tango.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it… But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.

My Response: You should pay attention to them in order to turn them into prosperity, to see in them the hidden help and love of the Creator.

Question: Even if someone threatens your life?

Answer: It is said: even if a sharp sword rests upon your neck, you must still believe it comes from the Creator’s benevolent intention.

Question: Is that even possible?

Answer: I have not tested it myself. But one can come close. In truth, at that level, I do not know. Yet we have gone through many operations, and I felt even in those moments that it was an expression of love, when we were literally on the edge between life and death. I love such moments.

Comment: That is a great love! I was with you then, so I can appreciate how one can suddenly feel that it is an expression of love.

My Response: That is right.

All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honour; duty; mercy; hope.

My Response: Cling to them, constantly develop them, raise them, and reevaluate them.

Question: What is the most essential value for you?

Answer: The most essential value for me is to be myself as I am written in the Creator’s book of fates—to realize myself. That is all. Nothing else is given to a person.

Question: In what way to realize yourself?

Answer: It is by transmitting through myself, in the most optimal and complete way, the influence of the Creator upon the world, as each person must do.

I try to do this through myself, to convey to everyone in this world the existence of the Creator, His plan, His attitude, loving and bestowing.

The revelation of the Creator to people in our world is the subject of the wisdom of Kabbalah.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right.

My Response: For that, one must first rise to the level of Bina, the quality of complete bestowal. And from bestowal and love for all, one acts accordingly.

Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential.

My Response: The challenge is to yourself, to no one else. Because besides you, there is only the Creator. You play only on your own side.

Everything that appears before you is a challenge sent to you, and you must lower or elevate yourself to the correct realization of this challenge, since it comes from the Creator.

Comment: For an egoist, “challenge” means to challenge others.

My Response: But there are no others! Whom to challenge? There is only the Creator. This whole worldview is false and deceptive.

Comment: So everything I see, everything that comes to me from the world…

My Response: Everything before you is a play, staged perfectly. And you must play your part correctly, and turn through all the actors to the director Himself.

Question: And through all these actors, is the Creator addressing me?

Answer: Only that.

Question: So that I may turn to Him?

Answer: Yes. And that is all. In this way the whole world becomes an intermediary between you and the Creator. It is that simple—all problems are solved.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

My Response: Exactly, that is how it is. Regard difficulties as opportunities because all difficulties that arise are opportunities for our egoism to elevate itself to the next level.

We cannot afford—we have no right—to look back. We must look forward.

My Response: That is necessary—otherwise you cannot advance.

Perspective means the complete revelation of the Creator to a person.

Priorities mean making the entire world into the link between me and the Creator, between us. The whole world! This is me, this is Him, and the whole world is between us.

Comment: Beautiful, but not very clear.

My Response: In your attitude toward the world, you must reach a state in which the Creator is revealed to you in the world, in every detail of it. And to each detail you relate accordingly.

Never, never, never give in, in nothing, great or small, large or petty, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

My Response: Be unyielding toward your egoism. You must set yourself so as to be steadfast in the struggle, to rise above your animal nature. In Kabbalah this is called “to make a restriction, a screen, and reflected light.”

There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them.

My Response: A person needs a small surrounding society—people he can rely on, at least somewhat. Because even on himself he cannot rely. But on them, if he builds the relationship correctly, he can.

Such a society is essential because the Creator deliberately pushes him, throws him off balance, and he sometimes needs support.

No case of this kind can be judged apart from its circumstances.

My Response: Naturally, what else to act according to? To rise above the situation also means to act according to it.

Question: So is it very natural?

Answer: Yes, that is the right thing.

You ask, What is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory—victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

My Response: It is not a wish, but a necessity—to win.

Kabbalah is the science of victory: to conquer oneself, and through oneself all of reality, so that you compel the Creator to reveal Himself within it.

That is victory.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 1/1/25

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Comment: Dividing the world into “good-us” and “bad-them” is rooted in human nature and is the source of many conflicts.

Some research found that monkeys judge other members of their own species with the same degree of prejudice as people judge “newcomers”. Monkey populations form various social communities within their species. After migrating to new communities, the monkeys seemed to judge members of their species alien to their community with a degree of prejudice similar to human prejudices of “strangers.”

It seems that the nature of prejudice is older than the history of civilization and culture, and therefore it is impossible to get rid of biased thinking by appealing to human culture! The real reason for intolerance lies outside the problems of cultural (national, religious, political, etc.) differences, but is much deeper, and not a consequence of cultural evolution.

My Response: No problem of society can be solved at our level, but only by rising to the next level of our development, which is possible only through integral education, because it causes the highest energy of development (light, Ohr Makif) from our future level of “man” at our current level of “animal.”

Only an ascent to the next level of our development will rid us of all animal prejudices, and all other attempts to achieve agreement, understanding, or equality are useless. It is better to look at ourselves soberly, friends.
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From KabTV’s “Evolution Beyond Darwin’s Theory” 3/2/12

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Question: Today, children are also taught to share and to give in school, but when they go out into the world, they fall under the influence of different values. What should we add to the existing education system in order to form a human being and not just a specialist?

Answer: A typical contemporary school cannot raise a human being or instill the right attitude toward others because this is possible only through the proper environment (society) that must first be created around the students.

No school in the world sets this as a goal. Students everywhere are taught to achieve formal success in exams, to win competitions, and to step over others. The main goal in life is to succeed and to acquire a profession that will bring the highest income possible.

This was the right approach in a competitive society. But today, we have entered an integral society where the law is: “It is not the strongest who conquers all, it is the one who unites with others who win (along with all).” Therefore the need has arisen to cultivate a new kind of human being, not an adversary of all, but a friend to all.

Raising this kind of person goes against our egoistic nature. Therefore, a special method (the wisdom of Kabbalah) and a means (the force of correction) are required. Otherwise, people will once again distort the idea of unity into a form of “Workers of the world, unite!” and will again try to build socialism or kibbutzes. As long as we act from within our inherent egoism, nothing else will come to mind.

Therefore, education is the fundamental problem of society. Without solving it, society will never rebuild itself as required by nature. And such rebuilding is possible only through the application of Kabbalistic principles.
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From the KabTV 6/4/9

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Question: You said that Nature, with a capital “N,” is equivalent to the concept of the Creator. The Gematria (numerical value) of these two Hebrew words is the same. So, we are talking about the Creator, right?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: And you say, if we are good with the Creator, then He will be good with us.

My Response: Naturally. Fulfill His commandments, and you will see how He relates to you in the very same way! The commandments are the laws of Nature.

The laws of Nature are not physics, mathematics, and so on, what we know from science. The laws of Nature relate to the level of a person’s attitude toward the world: how people relate to each other, how a person relates to the still, vegetative, and animate nature, how one relates to the universe, to everything. That is what is meant by a person’s attitude toward the Creator.

In general, this should simply be love, a correct and heartfelt attitude toward everything outside of you.

Comment: So, I already have love for myself, there is no getting away from that.

My Response: That is your egoism.

Question: And love for others, for what is outside of me, are you saying that it doesn’t exist?

Answer: No, of course not.

Question: Or maybe it is insufficient?

Answer: No! It does not exist at all.

Question: How can one come out of oneself and love something around? Are there any steps a person must take? We’re basically talking now about how to resist or stop this war that Nature has declared on us. If possible, please give some concrete advice. How can one come out of oneself and love something outside of myself?

Answer: That’s exactly what “Love your neighbor as yourself” means. That is the main and general commandment of the entire Torah.

Question: When you say “neighbor,” do you mean another person?

Answer: In general, it refers to everything around you. You must develop this love within yourself and start giving it. Not just rationally “love this one a bit more, that one a bit less,” and so on. Love! To love means that your heart tells you how to relate.

Comment: That is exactly the problem. We don’t really understand what it means to love with the heart.

My Response: You have to work on it. It is not like flipping a switch. It is an entire process to love someone outside of yourself.

Question: What does it mean to love?

Answer: To love means to relate to another as to yourself. What could be simpler?

Comment: That’s true. And we can’t make that step.

My Response: No, we don’t even understand how.

Question: So how can we do it then?

Answer: I don’t know. Maybe we should first watch some movie about how a person loves themselves so I can learn from that how I should love others.

Question: Do you mean to copy it?

Answer: Yes. Show me, in some film, how I love myself without any filters. And from that, I will see how I should love others, so that I will always have this example in front of me.

Comment: So, I’m constantly living wanting to receive something sweet, good, warm, kind, heartfelt, that is how I want others to treat me.

My Response: Mainly, you always want to be right.

Question: Do I suddenly have to give that away and say, “You’re right”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: That is serious work. Will Nature calm down then?

Answer: Of course, it will! Because you, the main initiator of all this negativity, will simply remove yourself from the picture. Nature corrects us and leads us precisely to this realization.

Question: Is Nature really like that?

Answer: Yes. Nature responds to us. It gave the world, this Earth, into human hands: “Do as you wish.”

Comment: But in essence, Nature itself is giving, bestowing.

My Response: It is giving and bestowing to the extent that you are giving and bestowing.

Comment: So, you’re putting an equal sign here, if I become like it, everything will be fine.

My Response: A person must come to equivalence with the Creator. That is why Nature will not yield on this.

Question: So, in short, we must correspond to the Creator, is that it?

Answer: Yes. What else?

Question: Only how can we actually do it! Will Nature not calm down until we reach this?

Answer: No! That is exactly what is written: “Rise to the level of the Creator.”

Comment: Understood. But you know, seismologists are already predicting that this won’t stop, that it will keep shaking, shaking, and shaking. Something is happening with the Earth’s core. I won’t go into technical details, but they say more and more places will open up where it will shake seriously. That’s what they’re saying.

My Response: The Creator seems to be playing with our Earth like with a ball.

Question: So, will this continue, as you say, until we make this decision and begin to move toward the Creator?

Answer: Yes.

Question: We just have to make the decision? Is that all that is required of us?

Answer: To agree! To accept means to agree. It is not like at a meeting where they reach a unanimous decision, and then everyone goes home. Here, there must be unanimous agreement among all people to live by the principle “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Question: Can we say that all 613 or 620 commandments are included in this one?

Answer: Of course.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/28/25

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A person must understand that they live in a world in which they have no right to anything at all. And if they take something, consume it for themselves for their own sake, then they must pay for it, give it back, repay it, and so on.

Question: And the fact that we break everything, kill, does all that come back to a person like a boomerang? What do you think?

Answer: We will have to pay for all of that on a global scale.

Comment: Remember, Rabbi Akiva said that “the book is open, the hand writes,” and you borrow, as it were, and later you must repay all of it.

My Response: You will have to.

Question: Is that what this is about?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And is it normal to take only what is necessary for survival?

Answer: Only for survival, and if you take only for survival, then you will be able to give it back.

Comment: And it is so, blessed be it.

My Response: Relatively. It is a very complicated matter. After all, nature is closed, integral, perfect. And therefore, our existence within it, in nature, requires that we be really careful and completely dedicated.

Question: How, then, can we achieve harmony with nature?

Answer: Only if we manage to unite with nature and achieve the ability to give in the same measure that we take. Then we will regulate how much to take and how much to give.

Question: But aren’t we, in principle, constantly moving toward that in one way or another?

Answer: I hope that someday we will.

Question: Why haven’t we been given the ability to understand and feel all this? We just take things from nature without concern.

Answer: But we are moving toward it. It is a development, the gradual development of nature from the inanimate onward.

Question: So we must come to the point that I cannot just take everything as I want. And certainly not kill, steal, and so on?

Answer: Of course.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 11/3/25

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Question: How is poor education related to a lack of connection between people? I don’t see the connection here.

Answer: What we call “education” provides education, but does not educate or develop. School does not build a human out of a child, but only gives him knowledge: in physics, chemistry, and so on.

We call the educational system a system of upbringing, but it does not provide upbringing at all. This is evident from the results as well as from the subjects that are taught there.

How many lessons and discussions in school are aimed at nurturing a person? Does anyone even care about that?

The schedule includes only physics, chemistry, reading, and writing, and then we wonder why we have such difficulties with children. School produces robots who have been taught to work at enterprises. This is the task of the school: to prepare a worker (an engineer, etc.) who will work on the “conveyor belt.”

And what kind of person he will become and how he will live, no one in the education system cares. Because it is not, in principle, a system of upbringing!

This system of education has never set the goal of upbringing a person. It arose during the Industrial Revolution, when it was necessary to turn peasants into workers.

That is when the modern school was invented to teach a little reading, writing, and so on, so that someone who had worked with cows and on the land all his life could work with machines, understand the simplest physical and chemical laws and could follow instructions.

This is what school was built on and it continues to exist in this form to this very day. But today we must move on to a truly “educational” system of upbringing, and that is something entirely different.

It is defined not by how much you know in physics or mathematics, but by how much of a human you are! A human being is someone who is connected with others! Only this connection allows you to be called a human, not the amount of scientific knowledge.

If you succeed only in science, it will help you only to create a more terrible weapon. After all, you will add the knowledge you acquired in school to your uncorrected ego and with its help you will go and use everyone else. And this will determine your success in life.

This is how people are raised today; the first questions: what major did you choose, and how much can you can earn it? And this is called education?!

If people see that a system has appeared that truly allows giving children an education, they will immediately respond. After all, this problem is clear to everyone.

Today, people don’t even want to have children, they have nothing to give children. They don’t want to bring them into this world to condemn them to meaningless suffering.

Therefore, it is necessary to convey to people that all the problems in society and in our private life stem only from the lack of connection between us. And this connection can be achieved only by the path of light.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/28/10, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot”

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What is love? It is when I feel myself physically connected with another, dependent on him and he on me so much so that I cannot exist without him, and he cannot exist without me. Such a state obliges us to care for one another.

Question: So I have a desire for him to feel good all the time? For him to be happy?

Answer: I think about him because by doing so, I also ensure my own well-being.

Comment: You are not destroying this egoistic foundation. You are not destroying it; it always remains.

My Response: And it is necessary. You cannot get rid of it. It is like in a couple who love each other; it is egoistic love. They understand that without each other, they will feel worse. And they care for one another because in doing so each one is really caring for oneself.

Question: Then when does war, hatred occur? At what moment?

Answer: When those bonds are broken. When I stop caring about the other, I begin to fight with him. There can be no peace. Peace can exist only when we are dependent on each other, when this dependence is mutual, and when we absolutely must be together.

Question: So your main advice is to build such connections that can never be broken?

Answer: Yes.

Question: In everything, be dependent in everything?

Answer: In everything. That is how it is in nature. That is how it is in the global nature, in the  cosmos, everywhere is the same.

Question: If we speak of governments, should their main concern be to ensure that one cannot exist without another? That I cannot exist without the other?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What happened to the world then? Why is it like this?

Answer: People became independent. They think they can exist without one another, can conquer one another, and so on. But in fact, that is not the true principle.

Question: Yet we have always said that today’s world is interconnected, completely interconnected. Why don’t we see it?

Answer: We do see it. That is why the world still exists and remains interdependent. But you see how people use this mutual dependence in a way that leads to poverty, to death, and so on.

Question: So still, this principle “that I should feel good and not that he should feel good,” this principle rules—“that I should feel good”?

Answer: Unfortunately, a person does not understand the universal law that it can be good only if it is good for everyone. Otherwise, everything constantly boils in a cauldron of hatred. That is our egoism, created by the Creator so that we would see that we can never get along with each other except if we accept the rule of the Creator, the rule of love, and cover everything with this feeling, with this attitude.

Question: So this egoism, I must cover it with love?

Answer: Yes, and this must be practiced every day, remind ourselves, speak about it every day, and so on.

Comment: A person always feels that the work should end someday. But you say it will never end.

My Response: Never. Every day you must think about how you love the other and hear the same from him.

Comment: That requires not just inner strength but higher forces!

My Response: When you understand that it is inevitable, it no longer feels difficult.

Question: Is there a moment when it becomes an easy path?

Answer: Yes, it becomes second nature.

Question: And for close ones to live in peace and love, what is needed for that?

Answer: They must need each other, need and not suppress and get rid of each other to be free, but understand that their life, their freedom, their very existence depends on the other.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/23/25

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Comment: We must bring Kabbalah to people without frightening them.

My Response: I’m not frightening them. I’m offering medicine for their fears, only I’m offering it not so that they would stay in this life and sweeten it a little, but to rise to a level where they would be eternal, perfect, infinite. Of course, it sounds cool and unclear, but deep down every person basically wants only this.

Comment: It’s clear that the one who is meant to come to Kabbalah will come, his inner part will open. And the one who isn’t meant to…

My Response: Even the one who isn’t meant will still want to come, because this life is becoming very frightening. Frightening! Just wait a little. Here there will be an oil spill, there will be a volcano, another tsunami, a couple more fires. Let’s live until winter and you’ll see what kind of winter it will be, maybe minus fifty degrees. That is worse than plus forty in summer.

So everything is still ahead. I’m not threatening, on the contrary I want us to go on a fast, good path, because for your child you always want him to grow wiser, not make foolish mistakes and to have things go well, not so you have to punish him.

Question: But in fact, a blow comes, a person feels depressed, unwell. Do you really think some part in him will open, or that some process will happen in him?

Answer: If you get hit a couple of times, you will agree to anything! You don’t have your own “I.” Our “I” is not ours. We are all little animals. The “I” can be suppressed any way, and you will agree to anything.

Even now you subconsciously act according to your animal state. You have no personal philosophy, no ideology, you don’t stand on anything. There is no such notion in our world. We all proceed from our egoism; it dictates to us what to hold onto, what to value. That is all.

Who is a person in this world anyway? A small programmed egoistic creature with nothing of his own. A puppet on strings pulled from above, with no freewill. So why even reason about it?

Question: And the process? What happens to the person after the blow? What is transformed?

Answer: This puppet starts to twitch a little. Then he gets the chance to hear how to get rid of suffering.

Question: And how will he hear among the general mass of information around him?

Answer: Maybe he will have to go to India for twenty years and come back empty. And the next generation won’t go at all. For now, nothing can be done.

Question: So it’s not a stage of one single blow?

Answer: No, humanity must come to awareness on its own, otherwise you will lead it by force. This unprocessed stage must work itself through. It is like a rocket: the first stage burns out, the second ignites, then the third, and so on.

People must see the emptiness in philosophies, in sciences, in religions, and in everything else. They must uncover this emptiness, see in all of it only earthly culture, and to that extent use it reasonably. But it will give them only registration in the train in which they are riding. And where is the train going? That is for them to find out.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Where Is the Train Going?” 8/26/10

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Comment: Winston Churchill, the greatest statesman, Prime Minister of Great Britain, military leader, and Nobel Prize laureate in literature, formulated the laws of leadership that allowed him to become a great strategist, tactician, politician, and orator. First law: “Enjoy the moment.”

My Response: That is true. Because without satisfaction in the very moment in which you exist, you cannot produce anything.

Comment: “Be a realist.”

My Response: Yes, one must necessarily weigh the dark and the light sides, the possibilities, and choose the middle line realistically.

Comment: “Define your destiny.”

My Response: Choose what you exist for, and gradually, constantly, and precisely realize it.

Comment: “Learn from mistakes.”

My Response: As much as possible.

Question: You mean to say, it is impossible?

Answer: It is possible, but only within certain limits. Because mistakes, in principle, are needed in order to learn from them. Not to regret past mistakes, but precisely to learn from them.

Question: And does a person really learn from mistakes?

Answer: He does not learn, he remakes himself. Mistakes are necessary in order to constantly rise higher.

Question: So he leans on them all the time?

Answer: Yes they are needed. In no case should one regret past mistakes. On the contrary, you should rejoice that you went through it and moved forward.

Comment: A person keeps thinking: “What a mistake I made! What have I done!”

My Response: Self-torment is the worst thing that can be!

Comment: It is unclear how. I catch myself so many times on this thought.

My Response: Then be ready for the fact that you are making a mistake even now, and everything will be fine. And then you already have a good mood, and you catch the right moment, according to the first point: “Enjoy the moment,” and everything goes well.

Comment: “Just do your job.”

My Response: Right, every day systematically do what you are obliged to do, and add one day to another, another day to another, so that they all add up to the realization of your idea, of the goal you set for yourself.

Comment: “Verify through your own experience.”

My Response: One must sometimes draw a line and make sure that, after all, you did do something, you did bring something into the world, you did actualize yourself in some way.

Question: So this check mark is needed?

Answer: That check is needed in order to move forward. Maybe make some correction, but in general it won’t change much, you will remain who you are. But it is necessary.

Comment: “Be fair.”

My Response: Be fair, first of all, to yourself. Try to put yourself in another’s place, and others in your place, and from this draw the conclusion: How much you are not better than others, and how much you, in principle, are fulfilling your function. At the very least, do not expect from others more than from yourself.

Comment: “Draw the line.”

My Response: Below which you cannot sink, and above which you would like always to be. That is, of course, a dream!

Question: And what is your line?

Answer: That is a cherished dream. One does not speak of such things. I would like to see my students as the great leaders of this world. That, yes.

Question: Do you want to dissolve in your students, or that they be your continuation?

Answer: Well, my continuation… Who am I? I want them to rise to such a level that they would be worthy of leading the world to its spiritual goal.

Comment: “Always remain yourself.”

My Response: That is, do not deceive yourself. Do not think of yourself higher than you are; get used to, agree with the fact that you, perhaps (perhaps!), are worse than everyone. And act so that you could always say: “I tried to do better than everyone and I am always at peace with how it turned out.”

Comment: But that you are worse than everyone, that won’t really please a normal person. If he feels that way, he will always be depressed.

My Response: But you are asking me, not some ordinary person. I exist in two lines: in the real one and in the desired one, and I try all the time to be between them.

Comment: “Speak the truth straight to the face.”

My Response: Well, I try. Although every day I feel from my students that perhaps it shouldn’t have been said at all.

Question: That is, too much truth straight to the face. You tell it to your students. But to another person, not your student, can one tell the truth straight to the face?

Answer: No, one must not. By no means! As it is said: “Do not put a stumbling block before the blind.”

Comment: “Follow your own compass.”

My Response: That, yes. That is, if you have an orientation in life, you will have to say many unpleasant things and, naturally, hear many unpleasant things. But you must go that way, because otherwise you are nobody.

There can be no compromise here. Otherwise, it will not be you, then go wash dishes. And that’s all.

Comment: You once said that your teacher Rabash prepared you so that after him you would not buy into something, into all those “offers” that exist.

My Response: Yes, because there were very many opportunities. There were very many enemies who said: “Come to us, and everything will be good. Here, we must create such a group, such a society. Otherwise…”

Comment: “No one will come to you.”

My Response: Not just “no one will come,” but “we will eat you!” Well! In the end they didn’t eat me. They nibble a bit at each other, and we exist.

Comment: “Accept the unknown.”

My Response: Yes, it is very good when you live in the unknown. That is, for you every next moment is something new, arising, that you did not expect, and it doesn’t matter to you how it will be. Because it is determined somewhere and descends upon you, and you are ready to accept it.

Question: But isn’t it important to you whether you will reach the goal or not? Or is it unimportant?

Answer: No! I strive toward it, but nothing matters to me. Nothing! No-no, these are different things. These are two lines.

Question: That is, the result, whether you reach it, does not matter to you?

Answer: Of course not.

Question: And what matters here: to go, go, go?

Answer: As long as I can, I go. And each next minute, whatever falls on me, I must meet it with blessing. And that’s all. It is as simple as that!

Otherwise, one cannot live. Could I have carried it for so many years otherwise? No.

Comment: To go out again to the lesson, and again to the lesson, again, to stir everyone, again to stir.

My Response: Yes. And it is not hard for me. People think it is such an effort, and again, and again, and each time, and so many times repeated. But I do not repeat myself, no minute is similar to another for me! None!

Comment: I am always amazed that for all these years with you, the same questions are asked! And so, you begin again, begin again…

My Response: For me these are not the same questions.

Question: Because you feel that the student is new, or that you are new?

Answer: Neither he nor I, we together reveal now some new quality in the world, something that did not exist before. Because minutes are all different.

And therefore, it is not hard. Not hard! But the world does not understand this. Kabbalah gives such an approach that all life is truly an adventure.

Comment: That is, you are like a child, constantly discovering a new world, with wide-open eyes…

My Response: Yes, and therefore, you have energy and ignition. Of course. It is simply God’s gift!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/29/25

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