How can I trust myself? I am entirely in the hands of the Creator, and suddenly I am my own master?

Question: A person should not trust himself?

Answer: No. That is why it is said: “Do not believe in yourself until the day you die”

Question: What death are we talking about?

Answer: The death of the egoistic self. And who knows how much egoism is still within each of us?

Comment: So you think that these tests, which people undergo when win lottery tickets or earn millions on YouTube or TikTok.

My Response: That is misfortune!

Comment: So it is not happiness, not something to be grateful for, but rather something to beware of.

My Response: I ran away from it. And I had enough strength; God guided me so well, in general, to avoid all of that.

Question: But if it happens? Then at least it gives some way out, a little loophole. It happens that a talented person starts earning crazy money while young!

Answer: That is misfortune.

Question: But what should he do?

Answer: Nothing can be done. I do not think there is anything one can do against it.

I had such situations, but they were when I met strong, serious people who could tempt me with wealth and so on. No, I managed to keep safe. Of course, it was all the Creator who did it, but I tried to slip away.

Question: Is it a test? Is it how a person is brought along?

Answer: Yes! A person cannot live without boundaries; firm, rigid boundaries within which he exists. He cannot!

Question: And why does the Creator do this to a person?

Answer: To show an example to others through him. “Distribute your treasury to the homeless and set the slaves free.” This is Shota Rustaveli.

Comment: So, the conclusion is if a lot of money comes to you—run.

My Response: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/20/25

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Question: What is your advice to young people who are starting a life together with the feeling that everything will be fine for them and that they will live together for a long time, forever?

Answer: It takes a lot of long, even tedious, conversations with each other. Pour out everything you think and so should your partner, like two researchers. Gradually, you will reach a state where you both begin to examine yourselves and one another, and your partner will also examine himself and you.

Then it turns out that life becomes interesting and it becomes a study: how can we change our relationship, make it different somehow, and get closer? What if we do it this way? What if that way? And constantly try to reveal these qualities, feelings, and relationships as vividly as possible.

If people think about this and understand it, then somewhere after fifty or sixty years, this is what happens. That is all. Until then, it is: “If youth only knew, if old age only could.”

Comment: So this turns out to be the golden rule. Let’s hope some kind of change happens.

My Response: The time will come, and people will live like this. But we can already teach them! This is what must be added. We can teach these young ones how to become researchers. We can “age” them through our lessons, so to speak. They can undergo a kind of practicum.

Question: Even before they have joined together? To prepare them for this life?

Answer: Yes, of course. Then they will already know how to act—this way or that.

Question: So you are saying that young people should come to the wedding to unite together already as if they were old people?

Answer: Yes, inside. Of course. Will they discover on their own who they are? No. They must come with experience in communication, psychological communication, so to speak. This will give them confidence that they can overcome all sorts of difficulties in closeness and even turn those difficulties into greater contact.

Comment: Beautiful! We are talking about a scientific laboratory.

My Response: Yes. Oh, how much the world needs this!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/12/25

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Question: Is it true that if we didn’t do harm to others, we wouldn’t get sick?

Answer: Of course! There would be no illnesses, nothing. That is the root of everything.

Question: At the same time, you say that with our nature, it is also impossible to do good to another?

Answer: Impossible.

Question: Then please, lead us out of this dead end. What should we do?

Answer: Well, let us dream a little.

Suppose we invented a virus that would somehow “bite” all of us, and we would begin to feel that we are all the closest of relatives. Like brothers and sisters who simply feel themselves as one whole.

Comment: Meaning, we ourselves can’t do anything, but if a virus came…

My Response: Maybe we can at least want it a little. That is our main task.

For this first we must see who we are today and not deny the bad that exists, not reconcile with it. We need to try to understand that there can be an absolutely opposite quality. Because in nature, all qualities exist in pairs, opposite to one another.

If we truly desire it, then this inversion might happen to us.

Question: But it must happen?

Answer: I think yes. Because nature always manifests itself in two opposite qualities. Therefore, I think that after our current state, when we reach the breaking point, as they say, there will be a reversal, a kind of phase shift.

Comment: And we will begin to understand that everything was created by love and must lead to love.

My Response: It will happen above us, that is, outside of us. It will act upon us in such a way that we will change, become absolutely opposite, loving to the extreme.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/21/25

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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: Empathy is the ability to feel emotions that correspond to the emotions of another person and compassion is the sympathy for someone else’s suffering.

My Response: It is as if you relocate into another person and feel their experiences.

Question: How can one develop this within oneself? As I understand it, if this feeling were cultivated, we would live differently.

Answer: Yes, then we would educate people accordingly. I believe this is possible. We simply do not engage in this. In general, from the age of 13 to 14, people are already capable of deeply sensing another person’s suffering. And they need to be educated for this.

Comment: This would absolutely, completely change the world.

My Response: Of course, without a doubt.

Question: So compassion can be cultivated in a person?

Answer: One can cultivate the understanding of compassion for another person and give a person the ability to comprehend how to perceive it to the point where in their compassion, a person will be able to share in another’s suffering, partially take it upon themselves, and thereby neutralize the suffering of the other.

Question: And will you not burn out from doing that?

Answer: No, because by neutralizing their suffering through your participation, through your empathy, and through your compassion, you gradually divide their suffering into many smaller parts, and in this way, the person calms down. And in doing so, you can lead the entire world to balance, to an inner state that can already be called bliss.

Question: So if compassion were shared equally among all the inhabitants of Earth, would it bring bliss to the world?

Answer: Yes, this is precisely what we must achieve in our unity. Because, in principle, we are certainly facing very serious problems ahead. After all, egoism is growing, and the upper light is being revealed more and more in relation to our egoism. That is, related to our egoism, we will feel increasing pressures to such an extent that if we cannot unite and share it all among ourselves, we will not be able to endure it.

Question: Now I understand the essence of what you always say: “Unity, connection, good thoughts, and good relationships.” The foundation of all this is compassion, is it not?

Answer: Yes, but it is practically not even compassion. It is the sharing of the enormous suffering: the opposition between the enormous desire and the enormous light that is meant to fill that desire, and the lack of intention “not for oneself,” which would allow the light to fill the desire.

Question: So fulfillment is only possible if it is for the sake of others?

Answer: Yes, that is why we need balance here. This can only happen through understanding how to learn compassion, how to share the opposition between absolute fulfillment and absolute emptiness among everyone.

Naturally, it will turn out neither less nor worse. But if we want it to be shared in this way, then the contradiction itself disappears. This is the special property of unity.

Question: And then, this bliss comes?

Answer: Yes, at that point, the sensation of opposition, impossibility, and inner cry transforms into satiation, into something higher, into pleasure. There is no longer any difference between enormous pain and enormous pleasure. They merge into one.

Question: And what, then, does pain become in this case?

Answer: It turns into pleasure because you have balanced them with one another.

Comment: That is something truly elevated.

My Response: That is how it happens, on a higher level.

Question: So pain is given to us in order to turn it into pleasure?

Answer: Yes, of course.

Question: And the greatest pain ultimately becomes the greatest pleasure?

Answer: Yes, if you know how to reconcile these opposites, you receive pleasure.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/15/25

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The Creator Himself does not exist.

Comment: Well that statement shocks everyone.

My Response: But it is true! How a person reacts to this, if one does, is his business. I must set things straight. The Creator Himself does not exist. What exists is the feeling of closeness with others that arises through mutual effort to reveal the quality of love and bestowal.

Question: So this feeling, you call it the revelation of the Creator?

Answer: Yes, the Creator is love. And this has nothing to do with what is between a man, a woman, children, it does not matter who or what. It is simply a relation to everything that, I would say, I perceive as outside of me.

Question: And outside of me, you say there is only love?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Within me, there is none. But outside me there is love?

Answer: Within me, it is egoistic, predetermined, over which I must rise and feel true love.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/18/25

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The Creator suffers greatly without us. He has a desire to give, to saturate, to emanate, and there is no one, no one who wants it.

Question: But we want to be satisfied, to receive, don’t we?

Answer: But we do not want to be satisfied from Him or by Him! Therefore, here, I would say, it looks like a war of nerves; who will be the first to give up and say: “I love you!”

It is, of course, a game of exhaustion, really.

Question: And what is our identity when we complement the Creator, as you say?

Answer: In the fact that we become necessary for the Creator in action; we are necessary as it is, but in action, in the fact that we draw closer to Him, unite, merge with Him, in the fact that we complement the universe. We evoke a filling in the entire universe, the supreme light that fills the entire creation. And without us, it would be empty, cold, and dark.

Question: What kind of addition does He expect from us?

Answer: So that we turn on the light. Turn on the light in this world so that the universe may be filled with the light of the Creator, love, goodness, unification, and perfection in all forms.

Comment: At the same time, you say this today when you do not know where to run with these crazy wars…

My Response: You do not have to do anything. We just have to wait calmly, with confidence that this is going to happen.

Question: And still want it?

Answer: Yes, want and ask, quietly ask the Creator.

Question: Is that all that is required of us?

Answer: Yes, without unnecessary noise, statements, or arguments, without anything.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/10/25

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Comment: Elon Musk once said: “I want to be part of what changes the world. Making mistakes is not scary. The main thing is to make new mistakes each time.” I would like you to comment on this.

My Response: That is correct.

Question: So we make mistakes all the time?

Answer: Without that, it is impossible.

Question: It has always been said: “We learn from mistakes.” Do we really learn from them?

Answer: Not everyone does, but mistakes come precisely so that we may learn from them.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/30/22

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Comment: “School doesn’t teach you to be happy.” That is what an eleven-year-old boy wrote.

My Response: That’s right! In school today they simply demonstrate that dullness, obedience, and the suppression of happiness are normal conditions.

Question: But in principle, the slogan of the school should be: “We must teach children to be happy”?

Answer: Yes, we must raise people who are happy.

We need a school that teaches the correct attitude toward the world, toward life, toward friends, toward teachers, and toward parents, and this does not require grades that someone else gives you, but rather that when you are taught, you yourself give yourself the grade.

Question: Can make such demands even of a little child?

Answer: That is what we must aim for. Explain this so that they themselves can grade subjects, textbooks, their instructors, and so on.

Comment: So the child can say: “Today I was not in shape. I should have read this, and worked on that a bit.”

My Response: That is good.

Question: There is a fear of making mistakes. School doesn’t teach that it’s possible and necessary to make mistakes. By the way, that is what the eleven-year-old boy says. Do you think one should make mistakes?

Answer: I agree with him.

Question: So is a mistake an important thing? And one must make mistakes?

Answer: It is inevitable.

Question: And what if I make a mistake?

Answer: It is okay. I’ll fix it, I’ll learn from it even more than from something I did without a mistake.

Question: So it is even more important than if you move forward flawlessly?

Answer: We constantly make mistakes and correct ourselves, make mistakes and correct ourselves.

Comment: Trolling, classmates’ mockery in this often the fault of teachers who expose children to ridicule.

My Response: To live in such a society, a child must be taught how to relate correctly to society, to the environment, that this is possible, that this is and will exist until we correct our nature. That it is the nature of man that compels him to be above others at any cost.

Question: And the fact that they put me down now, is that just human nature?

Answer: Yes, that is their nature, nothing can be done. But I must understand their nature and somehow, in some way, forgive them, accept them as they are. And maybe even correct them in this way.

Question: And I should feel that this is also my nature; it is the same, and I can do the same?

Answer: Naturally, yes.

Question: So, you would like to introduce the words “human nature,” “human egoism” almost from the first grade, so that a child would feel it?

Answer: Even earlier.

Comment: The amount of homework. “I think homework does not affect children’s performance and education,” says the eleven-year-old boy.

My Response: I think homework causes disgust, hatred toward school. And therefore, it is not needed. What is needed is simply that a child goes there (whatever they teach him and however they teach, better or worse, more or less interesting), but he comes back from there, and he doesn’t have this homework hanging over him.

Question: So that he doesn’t have this burden, that “I urgently need to do this, how will I go to school tomorrow!” And instead of homework what should there be?

Answer: Instead of homework there should be absolutely free time, somewhat structured, but felt as free, what he himself would like to occupy himself with.

Question: Himself? So that he finds his own niche?

Answer: Yes, everyone in something. We had a lot of clubs back then. I don’t know they probably do not now.

Comment: I don’t think so. There were Pioneers Houses, clubs.

My Response: There was such a huge House of Pioneers! And there were a huge number of clubs, and all were free. You went, signed up wherever you wanted. Even in several if you liked! And went, studied.

Comment: Do you remember the modeling club, radio.

My Response: Yes, and you didn’t pay for anything. I went, among other things, to a photo club. Photographic paper, chemicals, everything was free. Absolutely everything free! That is so amazing!

Comment: And how warmly the club teachers treated the children!

My Response: Yes, people with a character like that worked there.

Question: Where did it all vanish? What was so bad about it?

Answer: The time! The time is not the same. We fell into such a bad streak.

Comment: “We fell into it, ”that should be the name of this story.

My Response: Yes.

Comment: “School doesn’t prepare you for adult life,” this boy thinks.

My Response: I actually think that nothing can prepare you for adult life. We just plunge into it, like into a whirlpool. And that’s it. And then each swims out in his own way.

Question: What is preparation for adult life, if we’re speaking about it?

Answer: Here it is necessary to create special, absolutely clear, realistic pictures from life.

Question: In school? Right for the children so they learn to get out of them, to deal with them, and so on?

Answer: Yes, to discuss and so on. On the other hand, to give them some patterns, but realistic ones. For example: “How would you act if you…” and you give them a story.

Comment: You know, this boy’s conclusion is very interesting. He says: “I think that the main subject in school could be a subject where we are taught to understand one another. After all, the ability to communicate is the most important thing.”

My Response: That’s exactly right!

Comment: It’s as if he’s listening to you.

My Response: Make him Minister of Education. And that’s it. ☺

Comment: No knowledge is needed, only such conclusions.

My Response: And put all these ministers into school.

Comment: Exactly!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/13/25

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Comment: Social networks love touching stories. Recently, there was a buzz with the story of a female soldier whose mother could not pay her electricity bills.

While traveling on a train the girl was explaining over the phone to the electric company employees that her mother is disabled, receives a small pension, and cannot pay for electricity until her pension money is deposited into her bank account. Crying, she asked that electricity not be cut off for her mother.

Suddenly, a man approached her, found out what was going on, called the electricity company, gave his credit card number so that 2,000 shekels could be withdrawn from his account to pay off the soldier’s mother’s debt, and then he disappeared. But someone managed to snap a photo of him. It turned out that he was a former military man.

My Response: Such extraordinary actions are very touching. We need more such insightful examples to encourage everyone toward kind interactions.

On the other hand, the electricity company’s policy is business, and there is nothing you can do about it. At the same time, it is necessary to consider that there are special consumers, such as pensioners, who should be treated differently, possibly through redistributing the burden among others.

Question: Do you like such stories?

Answer: No, I do not want these stories to be tearful exceptions to the rule. I want them to be consistently carried out in real life by a correct society that deliberately and systematically cares for all its citizens so that there would be no such cases that are good for a movie, but not for life.

There are still many such cases, but we do not hear about them.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/21/16

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