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: There are many stories about men who lived, quiet, grim lives. Even though they have families, they are grim and remote. They never speak a kind word to anyone, but on their deathbeds, they turned to their wives and finally utter, “I love you.”  What can you say about this?

Answer: A person, before death, begins to sense something from the world of truth.

Question: So it is like something is illuminated for him?

Answer: Not only is his future illuminated, but he is freed from the egoism of the past. What is death? First of all, it is the death of our egoism. And whether he gains something after that is another question.

Question: So it is like a boundary between caring only for oneself and stepping into a completely different space? And there is a small truth there?

Answer: It is small, but that is where we begin to grasp it, and a new world opens.

Question: And is this “I love you” the truth?

Answer: Yes, that is where it begins. With the realization that until now you have not loved and what it means to truly love.

Question: So at that moment I feel that I have lived for myself, loved only myself?

Answer: Very much so!

Question: And what is in this final confession, cry, prayer?

Answer: A person realizes that his whole life in egoism was, essentially, wrong. But there are also people who say the opposite: “Drink, smoke, have fun, take everything you can from life.” I am serious. I have heard it: “Do not take anything into account! Fulfill your desires.”

Comment: That is quite a twist, suddenly from the romantic “I love you” to this…

My Response: It is not a romantic “I love you.” It is what a person truly feels. It is not the romantic “love–do not love” feeling.

Question: Is this really the truth shining through?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: And what you just said, the opposite…

My Response: That is also the truth, but the other side of it.

Question: What is behind “I love you”?

Answer: Depends on who says it.

Question: But in general, truthfully, what is behind the phrase “I love you”?

Answer: “I love you” means that I want to feel as though I have no self of my own and existence is only to fill you and rejoice in your fulfillment.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/4/25

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Comment: Sometimes people have bad genetics. But scientists have invented molecular scissors that can be used to cut off the bad hereditary information so that it does not affect subsequent generations. A defective gene can be cut out, and the person is different: he does not get sick, his character even changes.

My Response: I believe that all this needs to be critically checked. Naturally, we will face a lot of problems here because all diseases actually bring health. They heal, if not the person who dies from it, then at least humanity is freed from it.

Just as wolves, eating other animals, are the “orderlies” of the forest, so are the diseases that are directed at us. If there weren’t such problems, there would already be who knows how many billions of people, no matter what we do. We would only build more and more hospitals and homes for the elderly.

We must understand that nature will do it in its own way anyway, but we are trying to do it through our own means, and nature, the supreme government, does it through its own.

And all these inventions of scientists are given to us from the same natural program. But, in general, we still need to check how rational it will be.

The fact is that we do not understand the laws of nature and to what extent we are given and what exactly to correct ourselves, and to what extent nature itself will correct us in accordance with this, and instead other problems, other diseases will appear. We just don’t see the connection between them.

Let’s say there is going to be a cold snap or warming, or other problems, maybe a war, and another couple billion people will die from it. This may be due to the fact that we will tweak our genes and try to make ourselves healthy.

That is, it’s still a closed picture. That is why you can’t do what you want to do: you heal in one place, you cripple in another.

Question: If this were done by a Kabbalist who feels the law of nature, the forces governing the universe, and the connections that exist between us, how would he do it?

Answer: He wouldn’t do it. He would teach people how to influence the root of their lives, the root of their problems, so that they would correct it there and not with the help of molecular scissors at such an insignificant ancient level. Why would I cut off some chromosomes and rearrange all sorts of genes?! Why do I need this?

I know in advance that all these manipulations will come out of the way in something else anyway. You can’t mess with nature; it won’t work! She will definitely do something else. All the same, you will have to come to construct yourself in a new way with the help of an upper force in accordance with the higher government and with God’s example.

Question: What would a Kabbalist doctor do?

Answer: It would be only to reach the highest stage of a person’s inner development and from the inner development would come all the rest of the external, and as a result, human health.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/18/17

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Happiness is when something you very, very much desired, wanted, suffered for, were in pursuit of, and created such huge aspirations in yourself suddenly begins to be fulfilled, and you begin to feel relief, as if from pain. This feeling can be called happiness.

But there are levels and gradations here: what a person suffers from and, accordingly with this, from what he can be happy. And it turns out that his highest happiness is when he feels himself approaching the Creator, clinging to the Creator like a child to its mother, something like that. Then he feels true happiness. And this is a very strong desire that has been gnawing at him all the time.

He wanted it to happen so badly, and he had already despaired. And suddenly the Creator appears and says, “Well, where are you? I am looking for you!” And a person wants to say: “It is me who is looking for You! Where have You been, not me?!” And so, they rush toward each other, simply without words and without holding back. This is happiness.

Moreover, this is not a merging as in our world, when bodies join, and each body remains with its own volume and sensation. But here it’s like sensations that mutually penetrate each other, and there are no bodies. And such a state appears, truly I do not know how to say it.

Question: This is very beautiful and poetic! It is just that you have never spoken like this before.
And does my “I” disappear? After all, it is me who wanted this. I wanted this after all.

Answer: I want it to disappear! I absolutely don’t need it! But if my “I” disappears, then the feeling of the other will disappear as well. That is why it is arranged so that the “I” does not disappear.

This is explained in Kabbalah that the Aviut (thickness of egoism) does not disappear. And precisely because it becomes greater and greater, we get the opportunity to combine it with the quality of bestowal. And it turns out that the greater the egoism, hatred, the greater the love. And the greater the hatred, and the greater the love.

We don’t understand how this can be. In our flat world, it is all…

Question: Either this or that?

Answer: Yes, we don’t understand. But in the spiritual, it is so.

Question: And to what extent will all this grow: hatred–love above it, hatred–love above it?

Answer: Until the state of infinity.

Question: Until the sensation of infinity?

Answer: Yes, that there is no limit to this.

But it must be felt, otherwise it is meaningless. But it is a very long path to achieve feeling it.
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Question: How should we work with insults? Children do not help their parents; they have practically abandoned them. Someone truly betrayed someone else, someone sold out a friend, and so on. How should we work with these offenses?

Answer: I think we need to reach a level of development at which we will understand that all the people around us are puppets controlled by the Creator so that we can properly correct ourselves in relation to these people, justify them, and wish them well.

Question: Is that possible?

Answer: Generally, yes. Not always and not immediately, but still…

Question: It is a long process, but that is the direction we should go in?

Answer: Yes! Otherwise, you are slandering the Creator. And that is a completely different matter. There the calculation is entirely different—it is a matter of how you perceive the universe: whether it exists on its own, or whether you govern it. If everything comes from above, then we have no other choice but to make ourselves absolutely submissive, agreeable, and capable of changing to resemble this upper force.

Comment: That is beautiful. I would cautiously suggest that our whole world is a world of sinners. We all exist in a state of hatred and constant offense.

My Response: Like little children in a sandbox.

Comment: And we respond, and respond; we keep responding. Look at all the diplomatic corps, how they clash: “You expelled my diplomats…”

My Response: Stop joking! Just stop. This is all…

Question: Then why are we being joked with like this?

Answer: So that we eventually become truly disappointed. Not in how the Creator made us this way, but in how foolish we were not to realize why He made us this way. And the answer is right in front of a person, but he does not want to see it. But all this is so that it accumulates, breaks through, bursts out, and explodes.

Question: If people begin to follow this direction little by little, what will our world become?

Answer: Our world will transform from today’s madhouse into a world where people are engaged in self-research, self-healing, and self-building.

Question: And through that, do they, as it were, bring the Creator into this world?

Answer: Yes, to the extent that this happens, the Creator is revealed within them.

Question: And what do you mean by “the revelation of the Creator in a person”? What does that mean?

Answer: The quality of bestowal, of love, which elevates us to an entirely different level of perceiving the world.

Question: Are you certain that there is only one path, and no other?

Answer: No, there can be no other path.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/24/25

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Comment: Researchers have found a formula for box office success of a screenplay. Films that follow a certain pattern make the most money; the pattern is a sharp fall and followed by a rise.

My Response: Of course, a “happy ending.” To do this, you need to create a drama and then gradually bring it to a happy ending. People cry and come out of the movie theater moved. Or when they finish watching TV at home, they feel content and joyful.

Question: Is it the same in Kabbalah?

Answer: It is the same in Kabbalah, of course. That is how it works: there is no rise without a fall, no love without hate, and so on.

This is the whole method of Kabbalah—ascents and descents. “And there was evening, and there was morning, one day.” It all starts with the evening, with night, with descent.

This needs to be learned, one must know how to control it so all ascents and descents are controlled, and a person enjoys descents as much as ascents. That is the thing!

Just like with scientists: achieving a result is good, applause, awards, all else. But the search, the suffering, the birth of everything new, this is pleasure, this is creativity!

Comment: An ordinary person wants to get out of misfortune as quickly as possible.

My Response: To do this, he needs to understand the general equation of nature. Everything goes exactly according to this sine wave. There is a special progression in this, and in this way, everything is created in nature.

Question: Can a person accept this?

Answer: It needs to be explained. But who is going to do it? That is the problem! There are no people to do this. Nobody has the strength to go up to people and start explaining it all to them, they just turn away.

Comment: It is easier to take antidepressants and disconnect. Or smoke something.

My Response: Smoking something is the future of humanity. But life will lead us. Nature is shaking us up; we are close to people beginning to listen because there is no other way out. Humanity will find itself in a state where, like a small child, it stands in the middle of the room, not knowing what to do, and cries.

Question: Where is that lifeline so one understands that this is a descent for the sake of a great ascent?

Answer: No, he should be really scared and cry out. He must find that he cannot calm down because no help comes from anywhere. There is no mother, no adults, no one to rely on. And all the time, a bear, a wolf, or something else keeps coming out from different corners of this room. Then humanity will begin to listen to what the Kabbalists have to say about it.

An egoist cannot listen to anything unless he is scared. This is the only thing that leads humanity to its goal. Through evil to good, through thorns to the stars, that is the only way.

Good luck to all of us in this!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 11/6/24

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Question: Don’t try to buy off your child with new sneakers, tablets, or toys. Then how do you “buy” a child?

Answer: By showing him that you are his friend, that you are supposedly on his level. And just imagine how much you have to remake yourself for that, how much you need to change.

Question: Yes, it is me who has to change. And what do you mean by the word “friend”?

Answer: You understand him, you are ready to help him, support him. The main thing is to understand him.

Question: Don’t overdo it with developmental courses, clubs, extracurricular activities. Let the child live through their childhood organically.

What is an organically lived childhood?

Answer: In general, yes. A child should do what he wants.

Question: To that extent?

Answer: In the end, he gets his desires and opinions from his friends anyway. So it is not really his own. But still, encourage him.

Comment: But you said you were surrounded by composers, by music. And little by little…

My Response: It did not really give me anything special.

Question: But it gave you an ear for music. You definitely have an ear. Do you still think a child should be given freedom of choice?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Keep your word. Say it once, do it the second time. Would it be better not to promise the child anything at all so as not to deceive them?

Answer: No, but if you want to demonstrate upbringing, then you must both promise and follow through.

Question: Let him make mistakes. Finnish researchers say: “What a wonderful mistake!” That is, I could even say for a mistake: “Well done. You made a mistake.” Can such an approach be used?

Answer: Not “well done.” But find the mistake, correct it. Here you have a mistake. And it is not an accusation, you are not blaming him.

Question: “Do not be afraid to overlove your child”—people say that. What does it mean to “overlove”?

Answer: Not to show excessive love, especially where it might get in the way.

Question: Can love get in the way?

Answer: Of course. Everything must be measured and in balance.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/1/25

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Question: What is the right approach to failure?

Answer: What must be, will be. What is meant to happen will happen. And we must be ready for everything and understand that life is like this: a white stripe, a black stripe.

Question: So after the black stripe, a white one will definitely come?

Answer: Maybe it will just lightly pass, just touch you, but it will come. And then again, a black one.

Question: Then how will I change? Will I not suffer from this, will I not beat myself up?

Answer: No, we are built in such a way that we only run away from failures. We cannot properly analyze them, understand them, correct something, and prepare for something. We cannot. We only work to escape from them. And this is a completely wrong action and philosophy in general.

If we connect these two states—failure and success—we will make ourselves sovereign over them and will not be weak-willed in times of failure or in times of success.

Question: So I kind of unite black and white?

Answer: Yes.

Question: I do not perceive it as a failure?

Answer: You rise above both states and thus go through them easily. You just need to understand what it means to rise above them.

It means to rise above your life’s striving, to stop chasing success. Understand that right now, today, you are in success already, within it.

It is like physicists say there are all sorts of black holes. So actually, we ourselves are in a black hole. In an astronomical black hole.

Question: And what is beyond it?

Answer: Nothing; and nothing is needed. Relax and understand that you are inside nature. And let it lead you. The main thing is to surrender to nature.

Question: So I throw away the oars? There is a current, I throw away the oars.

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is there a current?

Answer: Even that does not matter to me.

Question: That does not matter? To just let go of everything like that?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is that possible?

Answer: If you believe in a wise, great, eternal, all-powerful nature, then in my opinion, it is the most reasonable decision.

Comment: Yes, this sounds very timely: nothing is in my control.

My Response: And moreover, anything you come up with to go against this on your own only emphasizes the insignificance, limitation, misunderstanding, ignorance, and disagreement with this great nature in which we exist.

Resist nothing. Invent nothing. Try simply to understand what nature itself is, agree with it, cling to it, and you will find the most optimal component of your existence.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/23/25

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What would I gain if I found out what will happen to me in a week, a month, a year, ten or twenty years? I think it is much more interesting to live when you do not know anything. You just don’t know! This is much more interesting; it is exciting.

When you know everything, it is as if you have come to a movie theater to watch a movie, sat in the chair, and suddenly realized that you remember this movie very well; you have already seen it. The whole thrill disappears.

Comment: Meaning, it is better to live the way as you say: tomorrow is tomorrow, whatever will happen, will happen. Everything is in the hands of the upper one. Hence, we should move with this flow.

My Response: Yes, the best thing is not to know anything and be the boss in your life.

As much as you are the boss, you are the boss, and as much as not, you will start figuring it out; it just does not need to be. I am moving forward according to the rules that the Creator has set up for me in order to come to Him. I am approaching Him precisely within those conditions that He has presented for me. I do not want anything more. I do not want to see more than that, even a tiny bit! I do not want anything else! I want to be exactly so, a devoted follower of the Creator.

This is the most wonderful of anything that can be! This is a great award to a person when he can act this way!

And at the same time, hearing them speak about your future? No way! We must come to the state of bestowal.

Question: What if around the corner of this movement, as you say, of giving oneself to the Creator, suddenly horrible things happen?

Answer: There is no horrible or non-horrible. It all depends on how you relate to it. If you give yourself to it with an open heart and soul, then whatever happens, happens, but this is from the Creator; there is nothing horrible.

Everything in the next moment just becomes simple, clear, soft. Your attitude to the Creator is what makes Him the Creator. That is all. Here also comes the correct connection between you.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/19/25

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Comment: Chow Yun-Fat, a  Hong Kong actor and filmmaker is a millionaire; however, he lives on limited budget, uses public transportation, buys clothes only on sale, saying: “As long as it is comfortable, I do not need anything else.” He has had a small phone for 17 years and just recently replaced it with a smart phone. He says that he does not need wealth for the sake of wealth.

My Response: He was created this way. There are people who like to live precisely such a lifestyle; they feel better this way. It is not overcoming of their egoism, but rather an expression of their nature.

His egoism is balanced. Large egoism exists in a huge number of people eager for everything and ready to sacrifice their lives for the achievement of some egoistic, earthly goal. Here we must show how it is possible to balance these aspirations in order to be happy.

Question: Do you feel even closer to people who are bursting and their ego is raging?

Answer: Yes, such people are closer to me because they are the ones who are people. But he is like: “Here I have green grass, and this is good. Sun, water, and that is it!”

Question: Do you say that you are closer to those millionaires who go and make more and more money and even step over others?

Answer: Yes, they realize the enormous egoism of nature that exists in humanity. For that reason, humanity will come to recognize the evil of egoism. Precisely thanks to these millionaires. They are working correctly for the general law of nature, and we have to be grateful to them. They show all of humanity how quickly we have to burn this egoism; otherwise, nothing will happen.

We have to realize its futility, uselessness, and emptiness. Most importantly, it does not bring us to any good goal. This knowledge and this experience of accumulation of negative results are necessary for us.

Question: Meaning, it is all opposite. People admire this person. However, you are closer to someone who steps over people, makes millions and billions, and that is all. He rages! And he is closer to you?

Answer: Of course. Precisely thanks to them, humanity understands what it has to correct within.

Question: Will it come to this fast?

Answer: Certainly. It will come only through recognition of evil and the nature of egoism when it grows and is gradually more and more recognized by everyone, and through revelation of its corruption on our side.

Question: Only in this way?

Answer: If there is a possibility to do something in a good way, then this is the only choice. And if not, then it will be through suffering. Let’s hope that it will not happen this way.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 11/15/19

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