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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Comment: Many insect species are declining, are endangered, or have disappeared altogether. Scientists say that their decline can lead to a catastrophic collapse. The loss of insects impacts plants, animals, and humans negatively. The number of cockroaches, flies, and other pests, they write will increase.

My Response: The Earth is gradually dying out.

Comment: Bees are disappearing. They say this is the basis of what will be bad.

My Response: Sure, because bees are necessary in the process of reproduction of the plant world. This is a problem!

Question: Is it possible to stop this by scientific methods, as they are trying to do now?

Answer: No, you cannot do that. There is no way. Make artificial bees?

Question: So you do not believe the “robot bees” or robotic pollinators will work?

Answer: I do not believe in any of the tricks of man in which they invest billions. I do not believe that that can help stop the moral decline of humanity, the decline of humanity in its relationship to each other, and help humanity survive. Humanity is moving toward a state where it is burying itself.

On the contrary, all these scientific tricks confuse us. If they did not exist, we would have wondered what we should do a long time ago.

Question: So they give hope?

Answer: Yes. We shift all this to science, and believe that we will put billions more dollars into them and everything will be fine. They will come up with everything for us, and we will continue to rest on our laurels. It will not work.

We must understand that only our changing toward the world, toward ourselves and between us will make the world integral and restore everything that is necessary for the proper integral development of nature. Nature is a closed system, and if we violate the integrity in this system, no one can make up for it.

Question: Even if we violate with our thoughts, not only with our actions?

Answer: Of course! But the thing is, we are still hoping and thinking: “We will build greenhouses. One greenhouse can replace a million hectares of land. And everything will be fine. We do not need anything in the greenhouse. We will pollinate them. We will do something.”

Comment: By the way, there are such proposals.

My Response: Yes, of course, I understand them. But it will not work! Nature acts very wisely. It has to bring us to a certain state so that we can change. We have changed! We did not just fix what we messed up, we have to change! And we do not want that.

We do everything. We continue to spread all over the world, we try to conquer nature, we try to fill our egoism in some way, and in the end no one is happy.

Comment: All of humanity respects scientists, Nobel laureates, and professors who conduct various studies and invent something. But when I talk to you, I always have the feeling that they are all like children. They do not understand the main thing.

My Response: I welcome science only in the form in which it allows us to see the integrality of nature, where everything is closed, everything is interdependent. A sense of the integrality and harmony of nature is very important for a person. Based on this, he himself begins to strive for harmony and for integration.

Therefore we need to talk about these achievements and these conclusions, and we need to take them from science, and thus bring them into human society. All other scientific achievements will not bring any happiness to a person in the end.

Comment: And are all the conclusions that it is possible to come to something scientifically untenable?

My Response: It will only eventually lead to a state where you will be forced to change yourself.

Question: What can be done to prevent insects from disappearing so that the ecology is normal?

Answer: Just explaining to people that each one is an integral being and must bring oneself to the right interaction with nature. And then we will see, as the Bible says, that everything, absolutely all animals, plants, and inanimate nature come into harmony, following man. “And the wolf and the lamb will live peacefully, and a little boy will shepherd them.”
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/30/24

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Question: If, for example, I come to the conclusion that inner beauty is much more important than everything external, do I notice this externality in a person?

Answer: You still remain a human being.

Question: So I still have an internal marker that this is a beautiful person?

Answer: Yes, even more than that, you are developing even more refined taste. You are developing an even greater need to see harmony in everything. For you, beauty already lies in harmony. And if you see harmony, you enjoy it.

Question: What is the inner beauty of a person for you? What is it?

Answer: The inner beauty of a person is when he sees the possibility of justice and even goodness, but at least justice in everything around him. When everything is balanced according to the spiritual law of buy and sell; meaning, the law of receiving and bestowing.

Question: So a person who is internally beautiful feels the absolute harmony of everything that exists around him?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: And there is no evil, and there is no…

My Response: There is nothing! He has aligned himself with the Creator! And nothing can be bad, dirty, or disgusting. Everything is in complete harmony. Because he sees not the external manifestation, but the force that governs all of creation from within.

Comment: That is beautiful, that the spiritual reflects on the material too. It is interesting. I thought that a person simply, in an instant, stops paying attention to anything. But you say it is the opposite.

My Response: No! Moreover, it is written that when approaching full correction, the taste of copulation and the understanding of beauty remain only with Kabbalists. It is very, very complex.

Question: That is, only Kabbalists can truly enjoy both materially and internally?

Answer: Yes, they see it as a creation of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 7/22/25

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Relax and realize that you are inside nature. And let it lead. The main thing is to surrender to nature.

Question: So I drop the oars? There is a current and I drop the oars.

Answer: Yes.

Question: But is there a current?

Answer: Even that is not important to me.

Question: And that does not matter? Just let go of everything like that?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is it possible?

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

Comment: Yes, it sounds very much like nothing is in my power.

My Response: And besides, everything you come up with in order to go against it on your own only emphasizes the insignificance, limitation, lack of understanding, ignorance, and disagreement with this great nature in which we exist.

Do not resist anything, do not invent anything. Try simply to understand what nature itself means, 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,” 7/30/25

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Question: How should I live my life in order to raise a true prayer that will be answered?

Answer: You must try to take your heart and open it up. You will see what prayer is inside it and how it comes out. But it really must be done this way; otherwise, it is not a prayer.

Question: When you say “heart,” of course you do not mean the physical organ. What do you mean by it?

Answer: I mean all your deepest desires and dreams, but more precisely, your complaints about life.

Question: That is what the “heart” is?

Answer: Yes.

Question: All these unfulfilled desires, what are they?

Answer: They are what you want to come to the Creator with and ask for Him to explain to you why He did not fulfill them.

Question: Which of my unfulfilled desires will receive a response?

Answer: Only one. If you ever desired something, did you wait for that desire to be fulfilled by the Creator? It is not about what you desired, but whether you desired that it would be the Creator who would fulfill them. That is where the fulfillment lies.

That is, you did not desire money, happiness, fame, success—no matter what or how—but you waited for it to come from the Creator because you wanted Him to fill your desires and only that would satisfy you. Nothing else is needed! Only that He would do it! And even if He fills it with just a drop, that would be enough because He did it!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 7/19/25

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Comment: Psychologists conducted a very interesting study that showed that volunteer workers engaged in charitable activities experience burnout more than anyone else. Emotional, physical, and mental burnout is caused by stress. They often suffer from what is called “compassion fatigue.”

My Response: This happens because of the complete powerlessness to do something above one’s own egoism. A person egoistically wants his altruistic actions to succeed, but in the end, they do not. As a result, he begins to hate it all.

He sees a wall in front of him, and he sees how much the demands of altruism are opposite to his egoism, to his nature. And there is nothing he can do about it.

Question: So what is real charity that would not lead to burnout?

Answer: Real charity is when a person works for the world in order to bring the world to perfection, fully understanding what that perfection is.

Question: And what is this perfection?

Answer: It is only in unification among people. In accumulating and developing the feeling, the quality of unification, in individuals and in nations. We have hardly seen any large-scale attempts of this kind.

Comment: People constantly unite against someone. But you are saying they should unite in order to unify the world.

My Response: Yes, that has never happened, and that is true charity.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 1/13/20

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Comment: A device was recently developed that can read a person’s thoughts and reproduce them in writing or artificial voice. The next step in this “utopia” will be a computer that can read both my and your thoughts and link us so we can share them. If we’re connected through the same computer, I can literally participate in your thinking. That is what experts say. They believe the prospect of this mass consciousness is quite terrifying. It completely destroys freedom of thought and individuality.

My Response: The same thing is already happening now, just through cruder schemes of influencing people through the media, etc.

Only this will be compact, quiet, and we will all stare at the world with square eyes.

Question: And think that those thoughts are mine?

Answer: We might not even be thinking at all. Wouldn’t that be lovely?

Comment: But I need to feel that there’s an “I.” That I made a decision.

My Response: Don’t worry, you don’t have an “I.” It’s going to be great? You will be floating in the clouds.

Question: Can they implant even that, that I don’t exist?

Answer: Anything can be done with a person. Life is one big joke. A small, silly one.

Question: Then what is “I”?

Answer: There is no “I” in anyone. It is a part of the Creator that a person acquires if he rises above his nature.

Question: Your advice for how we escape this?

Answer: My advice is very simple: wake up!

But this is possible only with the help of a special, higher energy that we can draw if we unite. That is what Kabbalah says. That is the whole secret of unity: Love your neighbor.

Why love your neighbor? To rise toward the upper governing system, to the supreme information. When you possess it, it is in you and you in it; you will be able to govern it.

That is what is meant by: “My sons have defeated Me.” That is, to reach a state where you, as a human being, govern the world, your condition, everything. You will understand what is happening and see the world from end to end.

Question: Is that the true “I”?

Answer: That is the true “I” of a person.

And if that is absent, then what is the point of anything else? We are completely dependent, trapped in a matrix that governs us. We don’t understand this and we don’t know this. So why should we obey and live by the laws of the animal world?

Question: What should I do?

Answer: Engage only in connection.

Question: What is the connection?

Answer: Connection is when all of us understand that mutual, kind relations will lead us to the understanding, awareness, and sensation of upper governance.

Question: Can egoists relate kindly to one another?

Answer: No, we start by asking: Who are we? What can I even do?

Question: So I must learn my own nature?

Answer: I can’t learn my nature if I don’t try to rise above it. This is how we begin to sense who we really are. And then, within ourselves, our new selves, we begin to feel the upper governance.

Question: So the sequence is: I realize I must connect with another person?

Answer: It is not just desirable, it is necessary! I don’t want to, but there is no choice.

Question: And I make efforts and more efforts and realize I can’t. What next?

Answer: I unite with others who also want to but can’t, and together we begin to ask the upper force.

Question: So in the end, we come to a plea to the upper force?

Answer: Of course! We have no other tool to change ourselves.

If we sincerely ask, from the heart, we receive. We compel this upper force to change us.

We change our nature and begin to see the world differently: through a different desire and different intention. In a different light, as they say. In the quality of bestowal. In the way the world truly exists. We are just trapped in our own qualities and that is why we don’t perceive it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 3/26/25

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Question: One of Jerusalem’s unique features is a psychological disorder found only in this city. It is called “The Jerusalem Syndrome.” About 50 foreign tourists suffer from it each year, regardless of their religion. Could it be that Jerusalem has some kind of mysterious influence on people?

Answer: Of course, it is a special city that leaves an indelible impression on most of us. It breathes antiquity, and the history of humanity flows through it.

Nevertheless, the Jerusalem syndrome is a purely psychological phenomenon, completely understandable and explainable. Similar effects, after all, occur at other world-famous landmarks as well.

The inner vibrations of the capital of three religions, its unique aura of being chosen by God, all of that is created by people and not sent from above. There is no holiness in stones. Spiritual qualities do not clothe in our corporeal physical world.

The true spirit is created only by people themselves when they unite in a common aspiration toward bestowal and love.

The real Jerusalem is the one in the heart, a spiritual capital of the whole world. It is not merely a city, but a special degree of human connection. A level where the trembling of creation seeking connection with the Creator and His response, merge into one whole.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 12/5/24

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Comment: When a person is afraid, he is like a little rabbit trembling under a bush.

My Response: This is any person.

Comment: Now they are being driven into this fear.

My Response: Yes, big and small, anyone. You need to crawl under that bush with him, snuggle up beside him, and say: “Buddy, do you want to be saved? I have something for you. I’m not asking you to buy anything, just listen to how we can be saved.

Only through uniting above all our problems, hatreds, and whatever it is. Only through uniting. Don’t ask any questions. Look at the other person as your means to survive.” That’s all.

Comment: That’s interesting.

My Response: Yes, egoistically.

Question: My life and the lives of my closest, dearest one’s depend on this. Will I be able to rise above my hatred and “snuggle up” to another?

Answer: It depends only on that. Go outside and look for people you can unite with in this way. You have to do it with everyone. With one person more quickly, with another more slowly, but just unite! That’s it.

Question: When you say “unite,” do you mean it in a very simple sense?

Answer: Nothing else, no other meanings or goals, just to feel each other more closely.

Comment: It would be good to hear you.

My Response: “It would be good.” It will be good! We can’t avoid it! It will happen, either in our generation or in the next, depending on who’s lucky.

Comment:  Better in this one.

My Response: I’m still an optimist.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 7/9/25

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Comment: It turns out that there are hundreds of millions of atheists in the world. By some estimates their numbers near 1 billion.  It is projected that their number will continue to grow.

My Response: The main reason is that a person is developing. But atheism is also a religion. It is the religion of nature, not godlessness.

For atheists, their deity is progress, technology, money, or something else. It is still a belief in something higher than oneself.

Question: So what is true faith then?

Answer: True faith is the revelation of the upper force—clear, absolutely attainable, analyzable, and synthesized within oneself.

Question: Is it felt?

Answer: It is a felt absolutely completely, up to full connection of a person with the upper force, when it “dwells” in him and becomes he himself. A person becomes filled with this upper force, and then it acts in him, with his consent, and through his mutual effort.

This is all described in Kabbalah. There is only one true religion, and that is the wisdom of Kabbalah, the science of revealing the Creator, of a voluntary, conscious, gradual rapprochement with Him, that is, adapting oneself to this upper force of nature.

And the upper force is bodiless and timeless. It has no whims, no conditions, only the revelation of the opportunity to merge with it, to attain its level.

Question: What are the qualities of the upper force?

Answer: Absolute bestowal and love, nothing else.

Question: But why doesn’t that attract a person? In theory it should attract him!

Answer: It is the opposite of human nature. If a person has a predisposition, a yearning to attain the upper force at any cost (meaning, “I have no reason to live except for this!”), then he goes for it, no matter what, and is ready to sacrifice everything.

But if this yearning is not given to him from above, then he remains on the earthly level, and exists to serve his animal body. Of course, everyone has to take care of this animal body, but he exists for the sake of it.

Then he is a so-called human, that is, an animal, highly developed in some way, who lives and dies, lives and dies, until this yearning for attainment, for merging, for rising to the Creator develops in him.

Question: Is it bound to develop?

Answer: In everyone! And after us, the animate, vegetative, and inanimate nature rises to the same level. We pull everyone along with us! And all of nature integrates into this upper level, into the Creator.

Question: Then is it rightly said that “Man is the crown of creation”?

Answer: In that case, yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 12/21/24

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