Comment: We are all egoists. But the egoism of some is made such that they frankly rejoice if someone else gets blows.

My Response: Such is our egoism! No one is to blame for this. But to admit to oneself that one is like this must be very painful for a person. But deep down, we absolutely do not care what happens a millimeter away from us with someone else. And even if he’s worse, I feel better. This is our egoism.

When such events occur and I feel that egoism is aroused in me, I must understand that this is evil in me and I would like to somehow get rid of it, to correct it.

And you should not rejoice in the troubles of others. People do not understand that they are only harming themselves with this.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up. Branch of Sakura” 5/15/11

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Question: Today they write a lot about such a phenomenon as “the end of the world.” Not in the sense that we will cease to exist but as the beginning of a certain period where you do not know what to do. What is this stage in the development of mankind?

Answer: It is a wonderful stage!

We were born and live now in a period when the first generation was born in our world that really got off the trees, not because we have developed technologically and are able to make all kinds of cars, locomotives, and airplanes, but because we have come to a state where we have to decide why we have appeared on this globe at all, what we should do on it, and how to truly realize ourselves.

Such a monkey appeared, developed into a little man, looked around, and thought: “And what am I for?” It looked around a bit more, saw all this: “Well, okay. And what’s next?”

Today we are coming very close to this issue in our historical development: “Why did we appear? We climbed down from trees and developed technology and social structure. What’s next? Does man have some higher purpose?”

Of course, this is not a simple question. Until it cuts through humanity, until it is realized from within that this is precisely what we are asking, that this question is a challenge that nature poses to us so that we realize and in the end give ourselves an answer or at least begin to look for an answer to the question of the meaning of life. This is a very special moment, and this generation—it is special too.

So, it is searching, without understanding why and how, trying to solve all these issues either through terror, drugs, divorce, all kinds of searches, adventures, or space, no matter what. These attempts, everything we do is practically a search for an answer about the meaning of life.

Let’s say I am heading somewhere. We see that all space programs are being curtailed: “Well, what will we find there? Stones. Nothing else.” And what will we find in some technological developments? Or in culture? We once thought that with the help of culture we would develop ourselves. And all of a sudden, they were exhausted. In the 19th century this practically ended.

The 20th century came, the century of technology: nano-technologies, computers, everything. Today we are coming to a state where the Internet connects everyone together, and we suddenly see that we are working with a machine, that is what is interesting. A person begins to discover that his connection is mainly with machines even if he communicates with other people through them.

These are machine responses, this is automation, and there is nothing here. A person wants to go out somewhere, to escape! But in which direction can he go?

And if not, then again: back to drugs, to some kind of reassurance, just to forget. Why are sport games so developed today? All governments want to shift the attention of the masses to football and other games. Occupy people! The main thing is to forget yourself. That is why such a large number of media outlets are aimed at this.

And if you look ahead, the development of technology does not stop, and billions more unemployed people will appear in the world, not millions, but billions of people with good qualifications who can do everything. And what to do?

With the help of new technologies, we will soon come to a state where 5% of the world’s population will be able to provide for everyone else. What is next? Overabundance on one hand. The lack of distribution on the other.

In general, we are in a state of misunderstanding the meaning of life. That is the most important thing we need to answer.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up. Around the World” 2/20/11

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Question: You talk about a kind of global connection that thinking people detect and feel. Does this mean that if we don’t consciously reveal this connection, it is revealed by negative cataclysms, strikes, and perhaps even world wars?

Answer: That is absolutely right. Exactly! If we do not want to go the right way and act in unison, in harmony, in balance, with nature, then nature shows us the opposite.

In other words, the same formula is satisfied, only we participate in it as a negative element. All we had to do in nature was to come to balance with it. And now we are reaping the fruits of this imbalance in the form of all kinds of cataclysms.

It’s the same with a child: If he behaves well, his parents also treat him well, if he behaves badly, then his parents treat him badly. In fact, they treat him normally, it’s just that the correction of nature is set up that way.

Nature does not have any defined scheme. It has an absolutely clear system, and it is unchangeable. This is not some god who sits somewhere in the sky and commands as he wants, but a huge universal formula for global balance.

And we are getting more and more out of this balance. As we develop, we increasingly violate nature and our attitude toward it. Therefore, it naturally treats us the opposite way. We put ourselves in opposition to it, and we feel this opposition as all sorts of crises and problems.

People should understand that they need not suppress each other, but they need to start working with each other in real unity where not just borders between countries, but also all differences between people are canceled, when they begin to strive for connections with each other, try to eliminate all kinds of cultural and ethnic contradictions separating them, to reach mutual understanding that we are all one humanity, one Babylon, and we must come to mutual support, brotherhood, and mutual concessions.

Question: You are not talking about some external declarations that are fixed on paper and carry nothing internally, but about an internal message?

Answer: Not about the message, but about the realization of our inner connection, when it will be felt by the common nature. Only then will we get rid of all the problems that we cause by our imbalance with nature.

By hating others, I evoke a negative reaction from nature. It seems to us, what difference does it make if I hate someone or I have a conflict with someone. But by this I cause a negative reaction of nature on myself and on the rest of the world.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up. Europe Today” 1/26/11

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Comment: Two thousand years ago it was written in The Book of Zohar that the Earth is round.

My Response: It turns out that the unfortunate Giordano Bruno was burned, and the Kabbalists were sitting somewhere in silence.

The fact is that it was impossible to reveal this to people ahead of time, otherwise, all Kabbalists would have been burned. The Book of Zohar contains such things that humanity has discovered not only in the last two thousand years but there are those we have yet to discover. Still, we do not talk about them.

It is not necessary for a person to know more than he himself achieves through his work. As it is, we have revealed too much, it would have been better if we knew less. After all, most of our discoveries are not good for us.

Everything that a person has done after he left the cave or descended from the tree, he does only to his own detriment since technological progress overtakes moral progress.

We are not even trying to make ourselves better and naturally adapt nature for ourselves. We try to artificially clothe ourselves in some kind of cocoon and be independent of nature, independent of the Creator. It does not work.

We are constantly in a race of how to protect ourselves, how to secure ourselves. We nevertheless come to a failure.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up. Pole Inversion” 5/15/11

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Comment: In 1945 the terrible nuclear explosion took place in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. But outwardly, this country recovered very quickly and reached an even higher level.

My Response: The Japanese can recover very quickly because they have a serious desire to work together, above themselves, in connection. Community, society, the dependence on it, and the value of the opinion of society are for them in first place.

This comes from those ancient duties that a person had back in his ancestral clans. We see all their sacrifices that they are ready to make in the name of something common, in the name of the word of honor.

There is no such thing in the West. In the West, taking, cheating, snatching, selling, even one’s own father and mother, are all acceptable things.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up. Branch of Sakura” 5/15/11

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Comment: Natasha is asking: “You are talking about correction of the world, but it is such a long process, it will all happen sometime in the future. What can we do to realize right now that we urgently need to change our attitude to each other? I see that neither wars nor suffering help. What will help then?”

My Response: It can be a long process when, firstly, it does not depend on us and when it takes place through some external actions. When you need to build something, to do something, or even destroy something.

However, if this is the process of realization, you can say two words to a person, and it will shake him up and that’s it. He realized everything.

Question: What happens within him then? What turns over?

Answer: Cause and consequence. He begins to understand the relationship between cause and consequence. And this changes absolutely everything in him.

He begins to understand the reason why we exist in such a terrible way. The reason is not in you or in me, but in the egoism between us. It means that this egoism is between us, it is not yours and it is not mine, and it is not that you are good and I am bad, or I am good and you are bad, no one is bad! Between us! The Creator specially created egoism between us in advance so that we would understand.

He even says: “I created egoism between you so that you would destroy it. It is in this way that I want you to understand that there can be something opposite of connection, love, and interaction. In this way, you would come to this connection, love, and interaction by removing the opposite.”

Everything that we attain in our world is attained from the opposite state. As they say: “The advantage of the light is from the darkness.”

Therefore, it can happen very fast.

Question: Is this understanding, in fact, the process of correction?

Answer: Yes, when you say, “Ouch!” and besides the pain you understand, in this “ouch,” the cause of this pain. You refuse it in advance, instantly, right there. You do not want it in any way. By this you reach correction. You do not need to do anything else.

Question: Why are we not saying “ouch” now? After all, it seems like the right time.

Answer: We do not understand that this thing that exists between us and prevents everything good is only our egoism.

Question: Why do we always have hope that egoism will lead us out, that it will get better?

Answer: We want to rise above each other. This is the problem.

So how can we humiliate ourselves relative to others? It does not matter what others will think, how they will look at us, what conclusions they will draw from our behavior. We just need to bow our heads down and start acting.

Comment: And we will hear: “Rag! Not a man! Who is he?”

My Response: No, I do not think so. If a person really acts in this way, people will understand that he is doing it consciously.

Question: Does this also apply to the leaders who lead the nations?

Answer: Everyone. To set such a good example. This is when the correction process will begin.

Question: Why can’t the Creator do like in your fairy tale? Like this: “Whoosh!”

Answer: The Creator did everything opposite of this. He must do everything opposite of this. Because only in this way will we attain the greatness, perfection, and the quality of love.

Question: Out of complete lack of love?

Answer: Of course, only like that.

We have to come to the understanding that we are coming to an end. We have no other choice but to make an effort over ourselves to transfer ourselves to the next state.

We just need to say, “Whoosh!” And everything else will happen from above.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/28/22

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Comment: Humanity is a huge organism. A person cannot be lucky or happy alone, but only so in connection with other people. But in fact we see that most people are unlucky and unhappy.

My Response: Only because we have such a relationship with each other. According to the science of Kabbalah, if we treated each other with kindness, according to the principle of “love your neighbor as yourself,” we would feel ourselves existing in the most perfect sphere of good, in a good world.

Question: How does this happen? After all, it cannot be said that people do not understand this. We understand!

Answer: Our egoism prevents this from us. Moreover, it interferes so much that we are ready to give up luck, just not to object to our egoism. It’s very hard to live like this, but people still accept it.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 5/24/22

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If we understand that our salvation is in unity, then everything will be fine. If not, nature will punish us long and painfully until we agree. And we will agree because we have nowhere else to go; we really do not like it when it hurts.

We will be hit by hurricanes, snowstorms, droughts, volcanic explosions, all kinds of upheavals. Suddenly some small emergency will occur and, for example, communications will be stopped. And why do we need communication, egoists that we are? And then again, maybe it will be turned on again. In general, there are means to influence us.

As a result, we will come to the point that we will inevitably be forced to work on ourselves, and even to do it willingly, with a song. Everything depends only on the amount of suffering that we will have to endure. Then we will ascend to the next degree.

However, we can ascend to it only with two forces, not just with one egoistic force of nature, which has constantly developed us and pushed us forward, but also with the altruistic one, which is paired with it, like the right and left lines, so that we use them together as a middle line. But this is already for those who are studying the method of Kabbalah.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Organic Food” 10/21/09

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Question: In the past, Kabbalists performed a very strong connection in a small group and it has been fruitful for the entire world. Why now is it so important to pass this methodology through the masses?

Answer: Everything that happened before us in the world, in the modern global Babylon, happened in the form of preparation of personnel, theory, methodology, and universal integral connection of people.

Now the time has come to implement it. Therefore, there is a great difference in the work of Kabbalists in the past centuries compared to what is happening today. Now Kabbalists should go out to the masses and explain to humanity what the methodology of connection is that will save the world.

In fact, this methodology is intended not for the sake of saving the world, but for the sake of elevating humanity to the next degree, but people do not know about this, do not want to know, and do not understand this. Nature, the Creator, has set the task for us to ascend to the next degree, to become united, to become similar to Him, but you cannot explain this to a person.

It is clear to him that when a stick pursues him from behind, he must run away. And we want to show him a carrot ahead instead of that stick: “A beautiful good life awaits you, let’s strive for it!” After all, you can run away in any direction, in 360 degrees, and they will all be bad. Instead, you show him that it is necessary to go precisely to connection, not to run away, but to strive! This is a completely different system, a completely different methodology, a completely different attitude to the world and to life.

Firstly, it gives you hope, shows you the future state, how to reach it, by what forces, and so on. All the leaders sitting in the government are running away from this, they do not know where and how. “Let’s chop this, push that, let’s not do this!” which means they act without any understanding.

If they understood the future state of the world, they would see that by starting again to play confrontation among them they are committing hara-kiri for themselves and their countries. But none of them hears it. Look what they do to people, what hatred they cause in neighboring fraternal nations!

Therefore, to show a carrot ahead, something sweet and kind, is not like pushing people to a bomb shelter, but on the contrary, to a meadow, together! I believe that the problem is still with us, I never blame the world itself. If we made more efforts, we could still be heard on the Internet.

We need to create a unified good team and purposefully carry out serious advertising through the Internet and explain the methodology of connection, its necessity, the urgency of the need for it all over the world, anywhere, under any formations, from slave-owning to capitalist and the most modern ones. This is what we need to do.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Methodology of Salvation” 5/4/14

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Question: Pavel writes to you: “Today people are saying, ‘Do you remember the pandemic? Those were the good old days.’ What awaits us, Dr. Laitman?”

Answer: I am not a doctor of medicine, but I am, to a certain degree, a doctor who treats a man within a human. One who cures.

I would say that a long and difficult period of recovery awaits us. However, recovery is impossible without feeling the illness; otherwise, the patient resists and does not want any medications and treatment.

Therefore, precisely those who advocate the fact that they are absolutely healthy: “We are invincible heroes,” and so on, these are the most ill people. Let’s hope that gradually this will all become clear. We will help them with this. They will see how much they are deceiving themselves and trying to deceive others. But in general, of course, this period, I hope, is beginning to be more or less obvious to many, not to everyone yet, but to many.

Question: As a doctor, you say to the question “What awaits us, Dr. Laitman?” that we will feel that we are ill. Is this the main thing that awaits us?

Answer: Yes, this is the main thing.

Question: Do you transfer this to the entire humanity or to individuals?

Answer: Starting with the most severe cases who are those that  are not aware that they are ill. They are not aware to such an extent that they are still trying to lead all of humanity, to show them the way forward.

Question: Do you think it will start with them?

Answer: No, it will start, not with them, but they are the most serious cases in the ward. It will start with the mildly impaired patients, who will feel that they are ill in some way, and that this does not give them the opportunity to live well.

Question: What kind of illness will we feel? What are we ill with?

Answer: We are ill because we cannot distinguish good from evil and cannot accumulate the good in ourselves, integrate the good, so that it slowly, gradually covers the evil. This is a very difficult path.

Question: Does it mean that we will be looking for this good, that we should take like a pill to feel that we are complete egoists?

Answer: This is what will be considered evil. Because with our sufferings today, we are already inviting such an illumination of good light upon us, which can reveal where in fact our evil is within us.

Comment: This is the most important thing. You lead us to it all the time so that a person would suddenly see himself in this way: angry, bad, no good. You used to say the opposite: you still have this and that in you, you can.

My Response: This is there just to get started. But who are you? This is an absolute evil. But there is a spark that will lead you. We need to inflate it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 3/28/22

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