Question: Can you give any principle ordinary people should live by?

Answer: The principle is very simple—do not worry. That is all.

Question: So all these career ladders are worthless?

Answer: We can see it all crumbling before our eyes.

Question: And the search for the meaning of life?

Answer: The search for the meaning of life is to find a point of balance with the Creator where you understand that everything must go according to His plan. And you ultimately resign yourself to His plan  and float along calmly.

Question: Basically, this whole life path, everything, everything should come down to what you just said? Is it the search for this point of contact with the Creator?

Answer: Yes, find that current, join it, and sail along it.

Question: And when does the kind of calmness that you radiate now come? After all the running, searching, or after touching something, some kind of truth? When?

Answer: I think it might come after 20 years of studying Kabbalah. And if you are in the right environment, even sooner. Because you will hear from everyone, from there and from here, and so on.

Question: And then we return to all these principles, then they become real? Calm, unhurried, do not make God laugh with your plans.

Answer: You do not interfere with any of your plans and actions. You simply live, trying to grasp the flow of life more deeply.

Question: What do I grasp, anyway?

Answer: You grasp what comes from the Creator and carries you away. This is actually time. The river of life.

Question: Time, what do you interpret it as? For me, it can be the ticking of a clock, the passing of time, or aging.

Answer: No, no. It is just a current. A flow. And you feel like you agree with it, are ready to fall into this current and let it carry you.

Question: And is this the right principle, the right way to live your life?

Answer: Yes, you cannot do anything else anyway. Conversely, wisdom lies in submission.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/20/25

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Question: “Don’t pay attention to anyone, just live for yourself.” What do you think of such advice?

Answer: That doesn’t solve anything. “Live for yourself,” meaning, I’ll live for myself, I won’t think about anyone else. And then what?

Comment: I’ll die just the same one day, that’s clear. What worries me is that everyone will forget me. All those to whom I gave so much warmth.

My Response: That goes without saying. They will forget.

Question: Then what is the conclusion if everyone forgets me, even those I’ve done so much good for?

Answer: I don’t intend to live in others because they are mortal too. So what is the point of investing myself in them?

Question: What is the point?

Answer: Only to come closer to the Creator.

Question: So I have my own individual purpose?

Answer: Of course, otherwise, what are people for?

Comment: When I say, “I live for others,” it sounds like I live for others. But you say, “I live for others in order to come closer to the Creator.”

My Response: Of course, because others too are here today and gone tomorrow.

Comment: So others and everything else exist only so that I would move and draw closer to the Creator.

My Response: Exactly.

Comment: That means this goal should always remain the main one before a person, the central purpose.

My Response: I can remember how much my parents invested in me, and that never leaves me. But when I look at my grandchildren, they could care less; they don’t feel how much their grandparents gave for them to exist. And so it goes, after one generation, that feeling is almost gone.

Question: So everything in this world is transient, fleeting, and only our closeness to the Creator is eternal?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Then what does it mean to come closer to the Creator?

Answer: To come closer to the Creator means to enter into an endless chain of care for one another. We must feel that mutual care is eternal.

Question: Is it eternal or does it lead to eternity?

Answer: It leads to the perception of eternity.

Question: When we hear, “You can live eternally, feel eternity,” we get nervous and dismiss it. Is it because we are always living for ourselves?

Answer: Exactly.

Question: If we could direct ourselves toward others, would eternity no longer seem like a fantasy?

Answer: Then we would begin to feel eternity. You would as if dwell in others, and in that you would feel infinity. You would draw closer in your feelings to the Creator, and time would disappear; only the feeling would remain.

Question: What is the Creator like? When I say, “to draw closer to the Creator,” what am I really longing for?

Answer: For absolute care for others. For the other!

Question: Without thinking of myself?

Answer: If I can forget myself and think only of the other, then I enter eternity.

Question: Is there not even a little thought of “what will I get in return?” Does that not exist?

Answer: That is your reward. You will begin to feel eternity itself, precisely in your attitude toward the other.

Question: So, is the ultimate goal closeness to the Creator, and everything around us is given for that purpose?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What about wars, suffering, tragedy, and illness?

Answer: Without them, we couldn’t feel all this. They are also necessary. The evil inclination was deliberately created so that we could feel ourselves rising above it.

Question: Is our task to rise above all that?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: I see. Thank you. You have even illuminated that. For people all this suffering is such a pain, and you say, “That too is for the purpose.”

My Response: It is necessary.

Question: But can it be done without it? To just go smoothly through life?

Answer: No, a person can’t do that. He must pass through anger, through the evil inclination; otherwise, he won’t be able to feel the good.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/27/25

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The meaning of your life is to help others find the meaning of theirs (Viktor Frankl, Austrian psychiatrist, psychologist and philosopher, Nazi concentration camp survivor).

Comment: This is what you usually say.

My Response: This is already completely ours.

Question: It is ours. But he was not a Kabbalist. How did he come to this?

Answer: One does not have to be a Kabbalist for this. One just has to be a person who searches for the essence of life, and then he sees that the essence of life is to reveal the essence of life to other people.

Question: When does a person reach this? Usually, a person lives to find the meaning of his own life.

Answer: The search for one’s own life brings a person to the point where he sees that he can realize it only through the meaning of life of others by giving them the meaning of life.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/7/25

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The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love (Viktor Frankl, an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher who survived multiple Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust).

What is meant here is love, the understanding of the essence of nature, which lies in such a unification of all people when they do not feel what separates them. This emerging feeling of commonality, of being in one desire, this is the attainment of the goal of life.

This one desire, the unification of everyone into one desire is what love is.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/8/25

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There is no dead-end in nature. The dead-end that it sets for us are only for us to rise above, overcome this barrier, and develop further.

Dead-ends are only at our level, like steps. How does a small child climb stairs? He crawls with difficulty on all fours, and so on. That is why we are given these disappointments, ascents, and so on. They make us grow.

Question: So human growth occurs precisely by overcoming these dead-ends by sensing them?

Answer: By sensing them? A person cannot get up; one crawls up!

Question: So should I feel that there is a dead-end?

Answer: Yes, you must understand that the obstacles before you are the steps of the ladder of ascent.

Question: So where am I going? Here is this ladder. Where do I go, from one dead-end to another?

Answer: Toward understanding the meaning of life. Toward attaining the meaning of life.

Question: What is it? I am ascending toward something. Why am I climbing from one dead-end to the next?

Answer: I ascend so that these steps of ascent will create such desires, properties, and qualities in me through which I could reveal the meaning of life. It is there! But I do not see it, I do not feel it, I cannot  formulate or sense it.

As a result of these ascents, when I crawl from step to step like a small child on all fours, trying to climb, I develop the mind and senses within myself to understand the meaning of this ascent. And suddenly, I begin to understand, as if this meaning is located between the steps.

Question: Is there an end to these steps?

Answer: It is very far away. It is almost not even there. But why? If I start to feel this is life. This is life, when at every step you have disappointment, the need to find strength, the need to find the exact aspiration, the goal. Otherwise, you will not have the strength: what for, how, why, what will you consider the right goal, the right decision or not, etc….

That is, as a result of climbing these steps, you begin to feel yourself growing, creating.

Question: What is it that drives me? Is it to get through this dead-end or to get closer to something?

Answer: No, you no longer even want to reach any final step. You begin to feel pleasure in going through them. Between the steps, you begin to feel the wisdom and clarity of these steps.

Question: Am I starting to feel this governance?

Answer: This is called “Mi Maaseha Ikarnucha“—”From Your actions will I know You.” From the steps themselves, from how they were created for you, and at the same time you were created in order to rise above them—from all this, you begin to attain the Creator of these steps. And this is the main thing.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/8/25

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People understand that they cannot find the meaning of life in marriage. They cannot find the meaning of life in work either.

Comment: And, it seems, not in friendship either.

My Response: And in friendship, of course. Meaning—nowhere. So what is the point? I’m lying in bed, why should I get up? There is no reason, simply no reason to move, to think, to speak, to do anything at all. That is how a kind of world-freezing happens.

Comment: And today, more and more so.

My Response: Yes, of course.

So what is the point? It is only if we reveal the meaning of life, which is above this state. And if at least somehow, we can talk about it, show it, and shake people up, stir them. Otherwise, of course, it will all end with someone eventually starting to sell pills that put you to sleep forever.

And people will buy them. Oh yes, they will! They will happily throw them in their mouths, wash them down with a glass of water, lie down peacefully, and that is it. And what happens to them afterward, what difference does it make?

Comment: But that sounds illogical. If a person feels really bad, in theory he should be looking for how to…

My Response: But what can he do if he sees no way out? What is there to live for?!

Comment: In connection, at least in some kind of connection with someone else, some kind at all?

My Response: That exists. So they gather in some clubs. But in general, even that comes to an end.

Question: That isn’t a solution, you’re sure?

Answer: No, of course not.

Question: So not until a person breaks through to the meaning of life. Is such a breakthrough happening, and that is why this trend is here?

Answer: Yes, a person must break through such a barrier, which is absolute unwillingness toward anything at all. And only afterward does one discover a completely different life. In a certain sense it is death. After crossing this boundary, one discovers that there is life, but it is different, and now I can begin to exist in it.

Question: So you’re saying that a person really must go through death in order to start living?

Answer: He must understand, agree, and want to renounce this life, the egoistic life, the chasing after something and somehow. When he agrees to that in some form, it can be done in different forms, then he will be ready for the next life.

Question: What is your advice to a lonely person who is so lonely that his soul aches with despair?

Answer: My advice is to go to our website and read. Nothing else. Truly, I really don’t want to say this, but I have nothing else to suggest.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/23/25

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Comment: I lived normally, worked normally, was passionate about my job, and then suddenly, bam, I was empty. Suddenly, there is no point. There is work, there is a job, there is money, but I see no meaning in it.

Answer: This is natural. This is a person’s growth. This is gradual human development.

One’s egoism is no longer fulfilled. It is still the same egoism, which is our foundation. But there was a time when it was fulfilled; it enjoyed work, honor, fame, knowledge, money, the opportunity to somehow realize all this. And today, no. The opinion of others does not matter; climbing some ladder does not matter.

You could say there is a kind of fatigue, maybe like in any metal or material, it is the same here.

Comment: It is called “burnout.” There is even such a term.

Answer: “Burnout,” nicely said, yes.

Egoism has switched to the next operating mode. It is no longer enough for it that it is given everything, the things that used to bring satisfaction, fulfillment, the gratification of vanity, and so on. Now, it is not. What should I do? I don’t know why I should do anything. Why I should live or work? I don’t know! I am simply not interested in it at all.

There is just no satisfaction, no fulfillment, no saturation. Why work? Why live? There is no reason. That is it. Give me a pill, and that is it. People will get to this point!

Comment: Yes, I feel that they will, for sure.

Answer: Why not? It is a way out of suffering. I would like to forget and fall asleep.

Question: So you hand out the pill. You have now, let us say, brought us to this dead end. I even clearly feel that this will happen. I am almost certain it will. So what should a person do in such a situation? You keep saying that there will be such a universal cry.

Answer: Yes, but that cry is the awareness of the true desire to understand the meaning of life. In other words, why do I need all this?

To such an extent that even children, which is the most important thing for a person, and especially for a woman, will no longer bring joy.

You will have everything, absolutely everything, but you will not even be able to mechanically carry out your work or do something for them. Nothing! This is the real despair from the emptiness of the egoistic Kli.

Question: So when will deliverance come?

Answer: Deliverance from this state will come when there is an immense wail to the heavens, and humanity begins to understand why it really exists, and not before.

It is only when a true need arises to understand the meaning of life. We will live to see it!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/8/2025

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Question: According to Kabbalah, the purpose of human existence is to reveal the the Creator. What exactly is revealed to a person?

Answer: We exist within a certain informational field, and we do not know where or what it is.

We do not know where we came from, how we exist, what governs us, or where our thoughts and desires come from at every moment. We do not know what directs us when we decide to act.

We float along the current of life, and it seems to us that we are doing things, but in truth, we are not.

In order to understand where we are and who we are, we must reveal the governing force.

This is precisely what the wisdom of Kabbalah is engaged in. There is no greater purpose in our lives than to reveal the upper force and its governance over us. Only then will we know who we are, why we are, and how we are.

Question: What does the word “revelation” mean in this context?

Answer: I do not even know whether I truly exist right now or not, and what my life really means.

Comment: But I feel that I exist in some kind of world.

My Response: But do you feel that you are being governed, and who governs you?

Comment: True, we do not perceive the root cause.

My Response: We perceive neither the beginning, nor the middle, nor the end.

The attainment of the Creator must reveal everything that I want to know about myself, my existence, and reality as a whole—where I am, why, and what for.

Question: So when the reason for my existence and its purpose are revealed to me, is that what is called the revelation of the Creator?

Answer: No, that is the revelation of His attitude toward me. But essentially, that is how He is revealed, only relative to us.

Question: Is this some kind of sensory attainment?

Answer: Of course, it is sensory, direct, and scientific.

Question: Where does this become revealed in a person? Let us say one person attains it, and another does not. What is the difference between them?

Answer: The one who has attained the Creator perceives our world as a part of a vast reality.

He sees how everything happens not only in this world but in all of creation. He understands why each action occurs, with him and with everyone. He feels the entire picture.

We cannot even imagine what that means. But from that picture, a person understands everything that is happening to him and to everyone, in all of history and geography. It does not matter where, he understands the whole of creation and the Creator who governs it.
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From KabTV’s “Basics of Kabbalah” 7/2/19

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Comment: As a rule, a person comes to the study of Kabbalah closer to the age of thirty. You do not really see eighteen-year-olds wanting to know the meaning of life.

My Response: There are both kinds. But at eighteen, the issue is that we need to develop and somehow realize ourselves on the level of ordinary life. Our hormones are active. We need to explore this world, grasp something in it, and come to understand how empty it is. All of this is given to a person.

Many people come to us after they have gone through all that. They have, so to speak, stabilized in their understanding of this world and the lack of anything truly good in it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Who comes to Kabbalah?” 9/19/10

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Question: Can you tell us what the meaning of life is?

Answer: The meaning of life is to change one’s nature from receiving to bestowing, from hatred to love, from rejection to rapprochement with others. And then, through these qualities, you will feel a completely different kind of existence. It will be an opposite world.

You will find fulfillment in fulfilling others. And there will be no disappointment in that.

Comment: It would be great if a person could just—snap! — and it happened.

My Response: We will get there.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/6/25

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