Question: If we take the upper governance, the Creator, and look at the human world, at these eight billion people as the Creator does, is there a specific place a person should be, and what is his place, in general? Or is there nothing that specifically belongs to a person?

Answer: That is pure psychology. It is possible to throw a person anywhere, and he will get used to it and will consider it his home.

Question: Does it mean a person can make this step and say, “This land is my home”? Can he move from place to place and live this way?

Answer: Yes. As soon as I realized that I had to move to Israel, I immediately moved from Belarus to Lithuania. I found myself in a different atmosphere.

Question: To make it easier to leave?

Answer: Yes. The first question was “When are you leaving?” In Belarus they were afraid to say this. That is all. Everything was quite simple.

Question: Meaning, a person has to accept what already currently exists and embrace it?

Answer: Yes, cut off his past.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/17/25

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Question: Is it possible for relationships between people to be built only on good things? Between friends, between husband and wife, without quarrels, divorces, and suffering— only good relations, is that possible?

Answer: No, everything is attained only from destruction. Therefore, a person who has not gone through all these periods of “ups and downs,” rises and falls, is unable to appreciate it. He will not cherish such relationships.

Question: So you even support the feeling of destruction in the connection between people? As if everything is falling apart?

Answer: Of course. It is necessary for them to experience these feelings too so that they guard their relationships and do not allow them to reach such a state.

Question: But those feelings would hang over them, right?

Answer: Absolutely. How could it be otherwise? Two egoists! Could they perform some kind of operation, cut their egoism out of themselves and become sweet, harmless little idiots?

Comment: That would not be good.

My Response: It is impossible! We meet, we bump into each other, and then, having despaired, we begin to understand how life can be built when you strive only for good relationships. You no longer need, as in youth, to be sometimes in bad relations and then in good ones, and so on, but only in good ones.

Question: But that comes through the ups and downs at a young age?

Answer: Of course. Without that, nothing can exist. You must accumulate this arsenal of all kinds of negative feelings and states, and then you will avoid them.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/14/25

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Comment: An ancient Chinese wisdom says: “Always look on the bright side of things. And if there is none, polish the dark ones until they shine.”

My Response: Because behind everything in the world stands the upper light. And where it seems to you that there is darkness, you must “polish” yourself until that phenomenon begins to shine. Because in every phenomenon, within it, there is the upper light.

Question: So I polish myself in order to see that it is not darkness, but light?

Answer: Yes. Wipe away your egoism, and you will see that the world around you consists only of simple upper light.

Comment: “The trick of life is to die young, but as late as possible.”

My Response: Yes, because being young means always striving forward. Youth is not about years. You can live 200 years and remain young, or be an old man already at 20, extinguished.

It all depends on your aspiration! If you have a yearning to attain the meaning of life, then you are always young. That is the most important thing. It depends on you and on the society you are in, your environment. But under no circumstances should you let yourself be extinguished. That is very important.

Question: Your teacher was called “the runner.” Was he really young for you?

Answer: Next to him, I was the old one. There was a forty-year difference between us. He was born in 1906, I in 1946. He was very strong, powerful, energetic, constantly striving forward, and in that, he was young.

Comment: “The temptation to give up will be especially strong right before victory.”

Answer: Yes, that is always the case. When a person is about to reach the goal, strangely enough, a weakness appears: “Why? What for? I am tired. No way. Nothing.”

At that moment, he must understand that he is being tested for his desire toward the goal. To achieve it, he must add something new, an even greater aspiration. Inject more drive, passion, appreciation of values, the importance of the goal. And then he will reach it.

Question: So he is practically close, but in front of him is a mountain he cannot climb?

Answer: Yes. That is why he must increase the importance of the goal now, to climb, to run up that mountain.

Question: And how does that happen?

Answer: It is the mobilization of inner strength through the importance of the goal.

Question: But logically, shouldn’t a person have more and more strength as he gets closer?

Answer: No, it is like a runner; at the last stage, his strength seems to vanish. That is when he must activate a new reserve, a second wind. A person learns this, and then he succeeds.

Comment: “A friend without flaws does not exist. If you seek flaws, you will end up without a friend.”

My Response: Of course. One must understand this and love a friend with his flaws. And even if these flaws are in your friend, they are actually yours.

Question: So looking at a friend, you are really looking at yourself?

Answer: Yes. You must understand that these flaws are within you.

Comment: But we do the opposite. We generally criticize the world around us.

My Response: Exactly, we criticize. But in truth, we should perceive everything within ourselves. It is very hard!

Comment: Most businesses that fail are those created by friends. Later, they just hate each other.

My Response: They are not educated. That is the whole problem, humanity is not taught how to interact correctly with one another. And we cannot do anything about it.

Each person is such an egoist! And they continue to be raised that way. The more egoism you have, the more you supposedly have the chance to succeed over others. We do not understand that, in the end, true success means being in the right relationship with others.

We have already reached a state where the world is burning out from egoism. It can no longer move forward egoistically. All our grand dreams and everything else are fading.

And only one thing remains—how to go on existing? This is possible only if we begin to value our connection with one another. Within that connection, we will discover purpose, dimensions, an entirely different world.

Question: Can you give the main advice on how to preserve a friendship to the end?

Answer: You need to understand that the bad you see in others is all within you. There is nothing bad around you—only yourself. You should strive to correct yourself until you see a beautiful world in everything around you. Then you will find yourself in the spiritual world, in the Garden of Eden. Turn the hell within you into paradise and you will see that you are in paradise.

But if you do not change the hell inside you, it will seem to you that you are in hell.

If you see hell in another, it is in you. Change yourself, and you will see that you are in a wonderful world.

Comment: “When they speak of my virtues, they rob me. When they speak of my flaws, they teach me.”

My Response: Yes, that is true. It is said in Kabbalah that a friend is someone through whom you discover your flaws. Because in this way, he helps you advance.

Those who praise you weaken your path; they fill you with an unnecessary sense of superiority, perfection, and so on. They do not help at all.

It is among those before whom you feel your negative qualities that you truly develop.

That means a friend is not someone with whom you feel comfortable—“I feel good with you, it is pleasant,” and so on. No, to the contrary. True friends are those who seem to push you away, and you feel you must make an effort to come closer. Those who mobilize you to rise above yourself, those are your true friends.

Comment: “An invisible red thread connects those destined to meet, despite time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break.”

My Response: Of course. Because from the beginning, we are all connected to one another. Everyone already exists in their own state. And if, as a result of the correction of the common soul, we must somehow meet each other, that is already predetermined by our spiritual genes.

So there is nothing accidental about our meetings or separations. Do not worry.

The main thing is that at every stage of your development when you meet others, be as kind, friendly, and welcoming as possible. Then you will never make a mistake and will always move in the direction of your soul’s correction.

Nothing is accidental. All our meetings are predestined. It is destiny!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 12/9/24

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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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Comment: Please comment on some of Albert Einstein’s quotes.

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

My Response: Yes, the impossible is the absurd. One who tries to reach something through completely absurd actions, agrees with them, and rises above his reason, which in Kabbalah is called “faith above reason” and that person can truly move forward. All others are in a state of degradation.

Faith is also knowledge, only each time it stands above me.

Question: So do you not accept earthly logic?

Answer: Earthly logic is animal logic. What I can grasp with my mind, whatever it may be, is animal mind, animal logic.

Einstein was great because, although he was not a Kabbalist, he thought like one. That is, I accept nature against my reason: “Such-and-such speed, such-and-such mass—can it change? It changes.”

Mass changes. How can it change? It just does.

Time can flow backward. Why? We do not know why, but let us accept that it can. What we perceive through our senses should not be taken a priori as an eternal constant.

Anyone who wants to see immediate results of his work should go into shoemaking.

Answer: Yes, that is well said. It is good when you do something and see the result right away. You even get paid. You finish your day, make a pair of boots, earn a few rubles, have a drink, eat, go to bed, and snore peacefully.

Comment: But that is what a person wants—to check a box: “The day was spent well.”

My Response: That is what the animal inside us wants. The animal in each of us desires only that! To lie down on a featherbed, snore, and that is it.

Question: So you say that is an animal state? And the human state is not like that?

Answer: A human being cannot be satisfied with that. There is nothing you can do. You were created so that you cannot be satisfied!

Question: But still, is there rest in life?

Answer: No, there is no rest in life. It all depends on a person’s nature. You might want it, but no—and actually, on the other hand, you would not even want that! How could you want it?!

Everyone knows that something is impossible. Then comes a fool who does not know this—and he makes the discovery.

Answer: And the most important thing is that everyone tells him how it should be done, but he cannot, he disagrees. He does not want to do it that way.

Question: But those who tell him that know it is impossible?

Answer: Yes, yet he still does it in his own way, twists it differently, and as a result he opens a new path.

Question: So do you think that science should, in essence, be entered by fools?

Answer: Science should be entered by those who can deny science, and by doing so, advance it each time.

After all, science itself, in principle, progresses through faith above knowledge, just like Einstein, like Tesla, although we know little about him. These are the kinds of revolutionaries I mean.

I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Answer: Absolutely right. I completely agree with him!

I do not think that humanity will restrain itself in the next world war, if it happens. It depends only on whether the Jews fulfill their historical function. If they unite, then it will not happen and we will reach unity by a good path. If not, then through immense suffering—ours and the world’s.

Question: Do you think that humanity, in the next war, if it happens, will not restrain itself from using weapons of destruction?

Answer: That it will not restrain itself—absolutely! The only question is to what extent it will not.

Because there are people who say that limited nuclear wars are possible, but I cannot imagine anyone being able to hold back.

After all, nuclear weapons are now in the hands of many countries that are quietly sitting and waiting.

I am afraid Einstein is right. If there is a world war, it will push humanity back by many, many thousands of years.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/26/18

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In the News (CNBC): “Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has a problem with the way kids are being taught in the U.S. today. And he says there’s a simple question that can help: ‘Why?’ …

““The why of things is extremely important because our brain has evolved to discard information that it thinks has no relevance,” Musk says. …

“For example, simply listing the tools you need to take an engine apart isn’t enough to learn how to do it. You also need to try it yourself, he suggests.

“By ‘taking the engine apart and putting it back together,’ he says, ‘you learn about wrenches and screwdrivers and all the tools that you need.’ As a result, ‘you understand the relevance.’

“And he’s right. A 2015 study by the University of Chicago found that students’ understanding of science concepts, such as angular momentum and torque, was significantly aided by physically experiencing those forces. Students got higher scores on their science quizzes all thanks to trying things out themselves.

“Elon Musk believes that ‘solving abstract mathematical problems and equations brings no concrete benefit; schoolchildren do not understand why it is needed.’ Instead, he suggests that students ‘study concepts from mathematics and physics in practice, for example, by taking apart engines or building a satellite.’

In his opinion, ‘designing satellites and dismantling engines will give a sufficient understanding of mathematics and physics, while the ability to use a wrench and screwdriver will have practical use.’”

My Response: That is true. I completely agree with him. Theoretical study does not give anything.

Comment: But we studied everything theoretically.

My Response: And what is the use? I studied the strength of materials, metal sciences, and so on, so what? If it is not in practice, there is no point. I think otherwise you cannot master technology. Theory is theory. Mathematics, for example, is theory. There is nothing you can do about it. But it is not really a science; it is a language.

I believe that it is absolutely necessary to give students assignments, let them think, work it out among themselves, and arrange group activities; that is very good. They will begin to dig into everything. Today they already know how to open Google and everything else, how to extract knowledge from the Internet.

Question: Why do you think this has to be in a group? Musk does not write or talk about that.

Answer: Group work is absolutely necessary; today everything works only like that because the world has come to a state where it must group together. One person not only will not be able to do anything and will not manage, it is the wrong thought, the wrong approach.

Question: Will the participants of group work combine their skills and talents?

Answer: They will have to find contact among themselves and thus assemble from their different qualities. I remember, even as students, in order to finish a lab assignment faster, we would work as a group of several people. Someone would write the report, which had to be handed in within two hours, someone else would help with the sources, and I would assemble the machine itself, the wires. For me it was easy. It was amazing how well it went for me!

And each one in his place; it was very good, a team.

Question: So could there be exactly such schools of the present and the future?

Answer: Yes, I think it is a very good thing. After all, we are not teaching children about discoveries, but about what exists in life. Therefore we must deliberately give them machines, instruments, anything, so they can use them to learn about the elements of nature.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 12/10/24

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In Kabbalah, there is essentially no such thing as past or future, only the present.

Question: Do you ever regret something from the past? Does a memory ever flash something before you that makes you flinch?

Answer: Everything has passed.

Comment: So this conversation we are having right now, this is this life. And everything that was and everything that will be no longer matters?

My Response: None of it depends on us in any way.

Comment: Teach me to live like that. I can say that, but a moment later, I will be tested, and I will be weak.

Answer: No, I am not worried about the past. Although if I were to count how much time I have wasted and on what, well, of course.

Comment: It is a a lot.

My Response: But that is how it must be. Agree that everything is done by the Creator, and when it comes to the past, that is especially true! You fully support Him, trust Him, and accept it.

Comment: And yet, about the future. Everyone dreams of the future, everyone hopes for something that will come. That cannot be taken away from a person.

My Response: You see, if you think about the future, you are taking it away from the Creator. That is not allowed either.

Question: Is that also His prerogative?

Answer: That too, yes.

Question: So if I define this formula for myself, then what?

Answer: In that very moment, I am connected with the Creator, merge with Him, cleave to Him, and I want nothing else, like a child clings to its mother, that is what he wants, that is all! That is how we should be.

Comment: So the essence of this formula is to cling to the Creator?

My Response: Yes.

Question: The past is His, the future is His. But this present moment, is it mine? Do I still exist here?

Answer: I exist. In the present, there is “I.” And only I determine that I want to be with the Creator, to hang onto Him.

Question: Right now?

Answer: Yes, that is all. There is nothing else. Nothing.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/21/25

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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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Сomment: The wisdom of the Chinese people is often very profound. For example:

“The one who points out your flaws is not always your enemy, and the one who praises your virtues is not always your friend.”

My Response: This is absolutely true. The most important thing for a person is to correct oneself along life’s path. And someone who points out your flaws is doing enormous work on your behalf.

In order to discover these flaws on your own (let alone correct them), you would encounter countless obstacles, bang your head against them, and get into trouble. People sometimes end up in prison, get free after a few years, and have to start all over again. But if someone can truly point out your shortcomings, and you are able to feel them, understand them, and recognize them, that person spares you enormous suffering.

Comment: Yet we often consider such a person an enemy: “He exposed my flaws, he humiliated me.”

My Response: Humiliation is a different matter. I can feel my flaws and still rejoice that someone has pointed them out to me. But the one who says nothing, or even flatters me, perhaps he does so maliciously so that I will not pay attention to the corrections I need to make.

Question: So it is not in vain you keep saying that someone who criticizes you is closer to you than someone who praises you?

Answer: Yes, of course.

Question: Do you listen to someone who suddenly tells you something about yourself?

Answer: I very much wish I could.

Quote: “What happens, happens at the right time.”

My Response: We must accept this apriori as an axiom. The thing is that everything comes from the world around us and has its own path of development. Therefore, all that unfolds in front of us comes from this great mechanism in which we exist as small participants.

We need to understand that everything happening around us in society or in the universe as a whole occurs according to a vast plan, and we are within this plan. Our task is to fit into this plan, not to change the external flow by any means, but to correct ourselves so that we adapt to it.

Question: And then I will feel that whatever has happened, has come at the right time?

Answer: Yes. It has come on time, properly and correctly. And suddenly I begin to understand the correctness of everything that happens and how perfectly it suits me.

Question: And I have no regrets?

Answer: There is nothing to regret because everything happens outside of me, before me. And what I am shown are just the steps that I must take within myself to perceive everything correctly, to agree with it, to connect with it, and to move forward in resonance with it.

Question: That is, in harmony with it?

Answer: Yes, in agreement with it.

Quote: “He who drinks the water must remember those who dug the well.”

My Response: Beautifully said. And one must be grateful to them because the one who dug the well was not thinking only of himself, he was thinking also of me, anticipating my need.

Therefore, I am deeply grateful to him and must, in some way, repay him, whether simply with my heartfelt attitude, or perhaps by doing something good around that well myself. In general, even a warm, grateful feeling toward the one who opened a source of life for me already helps to correct the world.

Question: This sounds very much like a Kabbalistic approach. That is, instead of focusing on the pleasure I receive from the water, I turn my thoughts to the one who dug the well for me. Should a person behave this way in life, for example, by digging wells for others in turn?

Answer: A person must feel that everything he has around him and in the world was given to us by our ancestors who left it behind. And we must do the same for others, and for future generations.

Quote: “Misfortune enters through the door that was opened to it.”

My Response: That depends only on the person.

Question: Am I the one who opens the door to misfortune?

Answer: Yes, naturally. It is us who do all this.

In fact, the world is filled with boundless, absolute happiness, but by our own attitude, we turn it into the opposite. This is why it is said allegorically that we “open the door” to misfortune.

Question: And what if I were filled with the thought that the world around me is absolute happiness? If I constantly thought about this and strove toward it, would I still open the door to misfortune? Would misfortune still come to me?

Answer: This is our egoism. In truth, it exists within us so that we may learn to recognize and open far more doors to what is good. But we use it incorrectly; that is the problem.

A person is essentially unhappy. He is given an egoistic desire, a foundation, a character, an aspiration, but only so that he may correctly sense in advance what to avoid and how to adjust himself. Yet he uses this desire in the wrong way.

Question: Is that why he opens the door to misfortune?

Answer: Exactly. He keeps stepping on the same rake. Imagine there are “rakes” placed on the ground to show you the right path and to guide you to walk between them. But instead, you constantly step directly on them. This wrong perception of life stems from the fact that we relate to it totally incorrectly. That is, in fact, we fail to understand that egoism itself shows us how to walk properly and what to avoid. But we use it in its direct sense, and so we step on the rake again and again.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 11/10/24

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