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From a Meaningless Life, We Will Come to Harmony

715Question: I look at people. Today, anyone can post a video and talk about themselves or others. People write a lot on the internet. There are personal blogs, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, whatever you want. And in general, we all know what is happening in the world today. What kind of time are we living in now?

Answer: Our entire existence emphasizes our meaninglessness. This meaninglessness is so complete that there is absolutely nothing. That is why there is apathy.

Question: Is this the time for understanding or figuring out why I live? Has that time come now?

Answer: Yes, it is the time to realize that there is no meaning in our life. And where is it?

Question: Where is it?

Answer: It is nowhere.

Question: At the same time, everything I see is joyless, empty. So what should I do? Where is this meaning of life? Where is that something to make me come alive again?

Answer: The meaning of life lies in the fact that there is nature, vast, immense nature, and there is a thought that governs this nature, sets it in motion, and creates it.

It is this thought, this design, this great intention of nature that we must reveal. And then we will get to know the meaning of life.

Life is everything. What does “everything” mean? It is inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human nature. All of it has a certain meaning that lies above all of it. Meaning is what binds, organizes, and moves all of this. So we must rise above our life.

Question: Are you calling on a person to become a scientist?

Answer: Not a scientist, no. We must simply open our eyes.

Question: And understand the intention behind everything?

Answer: Yes, why nature created all of this.

Question: And what is that intention?

Answer: That is exactly what nature is pushing us toward. That is what we must reveal.

The intention is to rise above our world because this world is actually the worst of all worlds. And that is not a poetic expression. To rise above it means to discover this intention, this force, this thought, this design.

And when we attain this thought, we begin to perceive everything beyond time, beyond space, beyond everything. Then a person begins to feel himself on the level of the Creator.

Question: So what is this thought?

Answer: It is harmony. Absolute harmony among all parts of creation. It is something that we lack. And that is why by acting on us in this way, nature is driving us toward attaining that harmony.

This is what we must reveal. We cannot escape from it. We will not be able to just destroy ourselves completely or forget it. We will have to reveal and attain this harmony.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/11/25

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The Terrible Jealousy of the Creator

294.4Fulfillment that comes to a person from the Creator is incomparable. If a person turns away from it, then naturally, the Creator expresses His jealousy.

Question: So the Creator is telling us: “You have no idea how much I have prepared for you, and you are wasting your love.” Is He implying that there is no earthly love?

Answer: It is given to us only so that we reach heavenly love.

Question: And to turn us toward Him, He gives us all kinds of suffering, pain, and so on?

Answer: He does not give them. He simply shows us His love, which we reject. And we experience this rejected love as suffering. That is all.

Question: So what comes from Him is only love?

Answer: Yes, and if you reject it, you yourself turn it into suffering.

Question: What should we do? What is He calling us to? After all, we do not see Him, we do not know Him, and we do not feel Him.

Answer: That does not matter. You are given the opportunity to direct yourself properly toward Him.

Question: And this, essentially, is one’s main task, the main purpose of life?

Answer: There is nothing else in nature at all.

Question: A person must turn toward the Creator and love Him?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But do we first need to go through earthly feelings or not?

Answer: They should help us reach connection between us and organize that connection as much as possible in the qualities of bestowal and love.

Question: Is that exactly the desire of the upper force?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Will He stop being jealous then?

Answer: There is no jealousy, these are completely different levels.

Question: Yes, but we cannot express it differently. Human language calls it jealousy. Is it actually a level of love?

Answer: It is the level of absolute love.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/9/25

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294.4The way you react to a child is how the Creator responds to them.

Question: So through me, the Creator responds to the child? If I live with this awareness, is that called education?

Answer: Yes, in doing so, you open channels of connection between the child and the Creator.

Question: Through me, the Creator connects with the child? Am I supposed to open the Creator to the child?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: That is an incredible responsibility!

My Response: It is as if you are introducing them to each other.

Question: Beautiful! Tell me, should this awareness come to the parents even before the child is born?

Answer: In general, yes. We have spoken about this more than once.

Question: We have, but we have a million questions after that. For people, this is not just interesting, it is vital. But actually, we never said it quite the way you just did: “I open a channel for the child through myself.”

After such a warm and loving upbringing, how is the child supposed to go out into such a cold world?

Answer: If the child perceives the world correctly, then they will have no problem. They will feel the world is multi-layered, at least as themselves, their parents, their home, etc., and strangers. They will know how to relate all of it correctly.

Question: Does that mean the parents succeeded in bringing the Creator to the child?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/5/25

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There Will Be No Disappointments

202.0Question: What is your opinion on the claim that there is a suicide gene? They say American scientists have identified 22 suicide-related genes. Does this gene really exist? Do you believe it has an effect?

Answer: As far as a gene, I do not know, I am not an expert in that field. But a predisposition to it certainly exists. The Japanese have it, and there are other peoples and tribes, or historical periods when it appears, and so on.

Question: And how can one supposedly overcome this predisposition or gene?

Answer: With the meaning of life.

Question: Meaning? Only the search for meaning?

Answer: Only that. What else is there? The meaning of life and its correct realization are leading you to a new life even now. You do not need to die or imagine anything. You can see your future world already in this life. It is right in front of you; it only depends on the correct realization.

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

Answer: The meaning of life is to change one’s nature from receiving to bestowing, from hatred to love, from rejection to rapprochement with others. Then within these qualities, you will feel an entirely different form of existence. It will be an opposite world.

You will find fulfillment in the act of fulfilling others. And in that, there will be no disappointment.

Comment: It would be wonderful if a person could really live like that!

My Response: We will reach that.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/3/25

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Japanese Wisdom, Part 1

926.02Comment: The mysterious Japanese soul is very different from the European one. Their sages are very different from European ones and so is their wisdom. If possible, please comment on some sayings of Japanese sages.

“It is better to be the enemy of a good person than a friend of a bad one.”

My Response: That is true; it is more beneficial for you. You can learn a lot from a good person. But being a friend of a bad one is certainly the worst.

Comment: “Whoever strongly wants to rise upward invents a ladder.”

My Response: Yes. He will find a way to rise.

Comment: “Husband and wife should be like the hand and the eyes: when the hand hurts, the eyes cry, and when the eyes cry, the hands wipe the tears.”

My Response: Beautiful!

Question: “The sun does not know the righteous. The sun does not know the unrighteous. The sun shines not with the goal of warming anyone.” Is that so?

Answer: It all depends on how you look at it. It is all relative to a person—with a goal or without a goal.

Question: But if we speak of the warmth of the Creator emanating from Him, is there really no purpose?

Answer: It is all absolutely thought out and foreseen in advance. Based on the final goal, the final state, all the intermediate states come to us and move us toward that goal.

Comment: “Even if a sword is needed only once in a lifetime, you must carry it always.”

My Response: Yes, that is true. Precisely because you always carry it, you will be ready to use it that one time in life.

Comment: “Grief, like a torn garment, should be left at home.” But a person cannot help but show grief.

My Response: It is a cultural attitude toward the world, toward life, meaning nothing will shake me.

Comment: “When there is love, smallpox scars are as beautiful as dimples on the cheeks.”

My Response: Yes, love smoothes out absolutely everything. “Love covers all transgressions.”

Comment: “No one stumbles while lying in bed.”

My Response: Best of all is to lie down.

Comment: “Yield the road to fools and madmen.”

My Response: Yes, that is true. Because others may understand you, but these ones will not.

Comment: “When parents work and children enjoy life, the grandchildren will beg for alms.”

My Response: That is true. Children must not be given anything for free. You have to push them with all your strength toward acquiring a profession and mastering life, so that while you still exist, they are already building themselves. That is what love for children means.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 1/24/25

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It’s Mind-Boggling!

237Question: For you, does God exist?

Answer: There is a Creator for me. It is the one who created everything, including you, and wants you to fulfill your purpose.

Question: What is it?

Answer: Your purpose is to reach His level, to become similar to Him. That is why a person is called “Adam” from the word “Domeh” – “similar” to the Creator.

Question: Then again, similar to what?

Answer: To the Creator.

Question: And what does that mean? What is that quality?

Answer: It is the quality of bestowal, the quality of creation, the quality of governing all the worlds. This is the state a person must attain.

Question: Anyone in our world?

Answer: Absolutely everyone!

Comment: It is mind-boggling!

My Response: But you will come to it, whether you want to or not.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/19/25

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761.2Question: The God that many people think of, does He exist?

Answer: He does not exist.

Comment: But there is a God, as you say, who is called…

My Response: The Creator, the upper force.

Question: And what is that really?

Answer: It is the supreme force of nature, which includes all of nature. The Creator Himself is God. Nature itself is God. Not the nature of our world, but the general one, which we can already begin to reveal to the point that we can unite with it, with this nature. We can even govern it. The Creator wants us to be at such a level in order to become partners with Him.

Question: And when you say the word “nature,” what do you mean by that?

Answer: I mean all the worlds. Of course, our world does not even count. All the worlds, including five worlds in total, which are all included in and governed by one single force, one single law, this law of unity is the Creator.

Comment: I see, but this is quite elevated.

My Response: Not really if we are talking more or less about some kind of approximation to the truth. And that is why, naturally, I seem…

Comment: Like an atheist, a non-believer God, and so on.

My Response: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/9/25

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760.3Question: Can you tell people whether there is a God or not?

Answer: There is a single force of all nature in all the worlds including our imaginary world. It is called Olam Amedume—the imaginary world. So the highest power that includes absolutely everything, of course, us too, is called the Creator.

Question: And how should we interact with Him, with this nature, as you say, with the Creator?

Answer: This is what Kabbalah teaches. You have definitely come out on a direct line: “How am I supposed to address the Creator? What should I do? How do I find Him? How do you regulate your state relative to Him? And anyway, what should I do with my life? How do I live? What if I get something for it?”

And here we need to understand what the Creator is. So what does Kabbalah do? It tells you how to behave so that you do not feel bad.

And why do you pray? It is about actually feeling the remote control of the world and really starting to control your destiny. It is given to man. And the upper force that we know, the Creator, wants us to come to this.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/12/25

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The Brain of Humanity

032.01Question: According to statistics, a significant portion of Americans feel overwhelmed by the abundance of news. Seven out of ten Americans (68%) say: “We are fed up with the news; it is too much for us; we feel bad because of it.”

Is a person unable to just disconnect? Just turn off the news?

Answer: No, they cannot. I know this, and I feel this pressure too. One has to actively resist and turn off the news.

Question: How can an ordinary person free himself from this pressure?

Answer: Sift through the day’s news, and you will be left with, at most, two or three small pieces of actual news. Everything else is just filler.

Question: What is this phenomenon that the world pushes itself into a person and forces its way inside him?

Answer: I think this is already starting to burn out.

Question: And what will come next?

Answer: I hope it will be the question about the meaning of life because it is this question that drives this whole revolution.

Question: So will we eventually come to deeper communication with each other?

Answer: No. We will not get to this communication in a natural way. It is very threatening to our egoism; it pressures and obliges it. That is why I do not believe that connection or communication is our near future. It is our distant future. Only when we realize that we cannot go on like this anymore will we move toward connection in a very special way.

Question: Then where do you find the strength to spread the wisdom of Kabbalah even though you keep saying that one way or another, we must reach unity and connection?

Answer: You are thinking like an old-school materialist who believes that he has to lead humanity to happiness through his slogans.

I know it will happen in a completely different way. A small group of people, moved by an inner spark, will create proper relationships among themselves and through nature’s internal structure will influence all of humanity. And all of humanity will begin to resemble them, without even realizing it.

This small group will become like the head, the brain of humanity. As they change, all of humanity will follow them automatically, like a shadow.

Question: So you claim that all responsibility lies on this small group?

Answer: Yes. Good luck!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/28/24

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627.1Question: Do you know how many elderly people feel unnecessary? Neither their children, nor their grandchildren, nor anyone else needs them. There are so many like that. They feel that nobody needs them. How can a person learn to feel needed?

Answer: I believe the key is not to look for someone who needs you on a personal level but rather to ask: What can I do that would be good and useful for a large number of people, for all of humanity?

Question: Really?

Answer: Of course. Today, everything is designed to make us as independent from each other as possible. And when someone tries to step in and help, we do not want that.

Question: So you mean that a simple grandmother can open herself up to the world and can be useful to the world, to people?

Answer: Absolutely! If she understands what true benefit for the world and for others means, she will find her place in it.

Question: Can you gently suggest what kind of benefit she might bring to the world?

Answer: She can teach herself and others how to be properly interconnected with one another; that would bring an enormous positive force into the world and make the world better.

Question: That is, she should just think about this connection every day and try to build it in some way?

Answer: She can do it this way, yes.

Comment: Especially in the age of the Internet. That could give her a sense of being needed.

My Response: Yes.

Question: Is the desire to feel needed the meaning of life? Could that be the meaning of my life?

Answer: No, that is not the meaning. It is only a means. The meaning of life must be something higher than that.

Question: Is the meaning of life in establishing good, kind connections with others, as you said?

Answer: Yes. Absolutely!

Question: And that meaning will fill a person?

Answer: It certainly will. A person will begin to feel that he has this meaning. Through this fulfillment, through the connection between us, we rise to the next level, and we can fill ourselves for another hundred years ahead.

We enter a system in which we are all connected. It is an entirely new sense of life. We live as if in a single body.

Question: Could there be a “second youth” after 70 or 80 in the sense that you are describing?

Answer: Absolutely! A person opens himself up to the society that he is in, that he is helping to build.

Question: And his thoughts about good connections, new connections, are those thoughts renewing?

Answer: That is exactly what we need to do.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/6/25

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