There is an easy solution: Start disseminating. While engaged in dissemination, you forget about yourself. Even people who are not connected with each other, begin to establish contact. The more knowledge about unity you generate in the world, the further you advance. Forget about everything that happens to you personally, except for basic needs. Turn everything else outward—this will prevent friction and discord between you.

This is just as spouses devote themselves to the problem of their sick child, forgetting about themselves. Their attention shifts outward, and that is where they concentrate all their efforts. This common problem unites them. Thus, begin to take care of your “sick child,” the world.

This will cool the passion between you. It is pointless to fix your relationship directly. Switch outward fully, really immerse yourselves in the practical work, and then you will suddenly see how to organize things inside. Taking care of the group‘s internal matters will work only if it is necessary for the work with the outside world. Only then you organize everyone and everything. Let only the need for external dissemination define who we are and what we do. Then, we really will work to bestow.

Take the example of Bina. Its upper half is aimed at bestowal to the Creator; its lower half is aimed at bestowal to the world, and it itself is the middle third of Tifferet, merely the decision to divide itself into two parts. Thus, this is how everyone and each group should perceive themselves.
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From the 7th lesson at the Toronto Convention 9/18/11

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My Good Environment – Dr. Laitman’s Advice and Principles for the Week

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My Good Environment – Dr. Laitman’s Advice and Principles for the Week

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Question: What happens after the end of correction when we have ascended all 125 degrees? Does a new process begin there?

Answer: We will see once we have risen to the end of correction. Right now, we do not even understand what the first spiritual degree is. This is how opposite the spiritual world is from the corporeal world. As it is written: “I saw a reverse world.”

We cannot even imagine what happens after all the spiritual degrees, at the end of correction. There, we will have completely different instruments of perception, not just something larger than now, for comparison purposes.

It is just like as today, we are unable to speak about an integral world, where I will think about everyone and perceive everyone only together. Right now, we do not know what this is. We cannot imagine that we will see the entire world as one single organism.

I will automatically perceive from within every thought, appeal, and desire as my own because “I” will be “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” It will be as if everyone were within me.

However, are they inside me now in reality? No, they are not. I feel a distance of 125 degrees of hatred between us. This is how great the hatred that we reveal is, as it is written: “He who is greater than his friend, his desire is greater than his.”

Why do Kelim Igulim (circular vessels) take up such enormous space? It is because of the amount of hatred. This entire space is the hatred that will be revealed, and I must fill it with love over this hatred.

Hatred inflates spheres and distances them outside (“extra”) from the central point. Now, I must compress them back inside (“intra”) with my love, but I do this over their distance. I want to bring my neighbor closer, and I do it. I feel like he is close to me, as if he were inside of me, but all of this happens “as if” over the entire distance that remains between us.

I only shorten this distance, correct it, but I do not eliminate it. The depth of the desire, Aviut (coarseness), is not destroyed, and for this reason, I get huge spheres, instead of one tiny point, grown out of this hatred that distances all of our points from one another.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/10/2011, Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah

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Desire is what was created as existence from absence, as opposite to the Creator. Yearning is what the vessel must develop on its own. This yearning is the creature.

To the degree to which one builds the environment, he opens its influence upon him. The more a person invests in the environment, the more it becomes valuable to him and therefore, he opens to its influence back on him. With its help, a person builds means for advancement towards the goal of creation against his or her desire and thereby completes his or her effort.

No one can advance on his own fuel; I cannot awaken if not for those who surround me and therefore, I need to influence them so that they awaken me. In the end, one is bound with others so much that he awakens them and they awaken him, each takes everyone’s reward and no one lacks anything. And this is the perfect completion of the effort.

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No person was born without a reason, and, of course, no person received spiritual awakening for his own purposes. In the spiritual world, one person does not count, the whole system does.

This is why every person has to always ask himself: “How do I help fix the common interconnection? How do I convey my awakening to my friends? How do I participate in the search for the common program in the revelation of the Creator between us? How does He connect us?”

In the end, we will discover that we are in a single system, a single connection, a single function, and the upper force exists within us equally under all conditions. Then, we will reach the wholesome and perfect state of the world. Together, we will unite with this force specifically because it involves us equally and simultaneously.

The flaws that are revealed in our lives are the flaws of the program of the universe that must now manifest. We discover evil, pain, confusion, and disorder in the darkness that covers it. This allows us to do an exact diagnosis in the same way a doctor diagnoses an illness. The Creator bares the symptoms before us through disasters and problems.

So, let us have enough reason and feeling, enough preparation, and mainly, mutual support to recognize the essence of these events. When I feel pain, when I get angry at someone and do not wish to see them, when I justify myself, proving to myself that I am right and everyone else is wrong, then I need to understand that I am confused by the same desires and thoughts that are not yet corrected for connection with the common system.

I should not run from them. I need to work with them properly until I create a completely correct attitude toward others, beginning with close friends and relatives, and ending with the people I hate most, those who are distant and opposite to me.

As it is written: “Love covers all transgressions.” We scream about “love thy neighbor” not because we are kind-hearted. Real love is mutual inclusion between us, without any differences, with the purpose of joining the force that activates us, the program that must become revealed between us in an analog form outside of time and space, connecting all of us into one. We must use all available methods to explain this to the world. This is our work in between conventions.

I hope that we will be better united during the lessons. I really recommend reading my blog, regardless of the repetitions. There, I provide the opinions of many scientists and professionals, and this does its job: It enables us to connect to the world. We need this.

Today, we must feel the desires and the pain of the world, their impressions and feelings about the crisis, and use it always to look for ways to explain, influence, and slightly sweeten the pain of people, without calming them down, and instead, show them the correct way to view their problems. This work will require a lot of time, and we must do it.
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From the 7th lesson at the Toronto Convention 9/18/11

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My Good Environment – Dr. Laitman’s Advice and Principles for the Week

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Most of all, we are misled and bribed in our work by pride, which makes us think, “I will be in charge, I will control everything.” This appears in the most primitive form, the way it happens in the regular world when a person doesn’t give others opportunities, tries to circumvent them, and is not ready to go along together with them as equals.

Yet we need open relationships where I don’t try to be higher or lower than others. Being lower than others is not good either because it does not let you be friends. And naturally, being higher also doesn’t let you be friends.

It is necessary to be absolutely equal—meaning to stop feeling yourself! I feel myself only when I am higher or lower than others, but when I’m equal to them, I do not feel myself, but only a connection among all of us, floating together with its flow.

This is the feeling we should constantly have. Sometimes it becomes revealed to us during conventions, different gatherings, and special events. However, we have to maintain it all the time because this feeling of the connection between us is what will turn into the Light and the revelation of the Creator.

For now it is just a feeling of us being connected and bonded. It is just the construction of the vessel. But eventually, this vessel will reach the state of bestowal and then we’ll feel the Light inside of it.
From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/20/11, Shamati

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Question: How can I know for sure that I have risen above reason?

Answer: To rise above reason means to enter the reason of the other.

We exist in the world of Infinity. I am one of many. Remaining inside myself, I exist in my reason: concern for myself, thoughts about myself, in a race for my personal well-being. This is our ordinary state. Subconsciously and consciously, we think only about it.

Undoubtedly, my children, wife, relatives, friends, and perhaps even my nation and country where I live are also part of my sphere. This is determined by how much I depend on the people around me and to what extent I’m subject to their influence. Accordingly, I attribute them to my own Self.

What does an ascent above reason mean? It means that I move into the reason, the desires of the other person, instead of being inside myself. I’m at his or her service completely. For me, the other person is primary, while I, the one who executes, secondary. The other is like a beloved baby for me, while I’m his or her mother.

This is what rising above reason entails. In other words, it is a change of priorities: Now the other is more important to me than I am to myself, like a baby to his mother. This is a true sign that I have succeeded.
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From the 5th lesson, Kabbalah Convention in Toronto, 9/17/2011

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Question: If I start to correct in my little group and my group is doing well together, what impact will that tiny particle of the total population have on the rest of the world if the majority of people still stubbornly refuse to change internally and connect?

Answer: Since we are all connected into one general creation, by this you evoke in them the circulation of the Light, and they awaken for spiritual attainment—the property of love and bestowal.

Question: Are there any questions or methods that can awaken people’s point in the heart and make them ask about the purpose of life? Or does it depend only on the amount of suffering?

Question: The question about the meaning and life and suffering.

Question: What should the government in the UK do to stop the riots?

Answer: Start educating the entire nation: pay those who study and train them to be teachers. We have prepared the methodology for this and are successfully applying it in practice.
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