Question: What does it mean to draw closer to the Creator?

Answer: Drawing closer to the Creator means becoming included in an endless chain of caring for one another. We must feel that caring for one another is eternal.

Question: Is it eternal, or does it lead to eternity?

Answer: It leads to the sensation of eternity.

Question: So, when we are told, “You can live forever and feel eternity,” we become skeptical and say, “Well, that is fantasy.” Is that because we spend our lives caring only about ourselves?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And if we were able to direct ourselves toward someone else, then it would no longer seem like science fiction to us?

Answer: We will begin to sense that eternity. It is as though you transfer yourself into others, and in that you will feel infinity.

Question: Is the purpose of life contained in this? Is this precisely what it is?

Answer: Yes. Then, through your feelings, you draw closer to the Creator, time disappears, and leaves only sensation.

Question: But what is the Creator like? When I say, “Draw closer to the Creator,” what is it that I actually want?

Answer: To care absolutely for others. For another.

Question: Just like that, without thinking about myself?

Answer: If I am able to forget about myself and think about another, then I enter eternity.

Question: There is not even a tiny thought, a hidden calculation: “What will I get in return?” That doesn’t exist?

Answer: But that is precisely what you will receive. You will begin to feel eternity itself within your attitude toward another.

Question: So, to sum it all up, the main goal is to draw closer to the Creator, and everything around us is given precisely so that we can draw closer to the Creator?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Even wars, suffering, tragedies, and illnesses?

Answer: Without them, we would not be able to feel any of this. They too are necessary. The evil inclination was created specifically so that we would feel ourselves rising above it.

Question: Our task is to rise above all of it?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: I see. Thank you. You have shed light on that as well. For people, these things mean such pain, such suffering, and yet you say, “This too serves that purpose.”

My Response: It is necessary.

Question: And is there no way without it? Is it impossible to pass through life smoothly and effortlessly?

Answer: No. A person is incapable of it. One must pass through malice, through the evil inclination; otherwise, one will not feel the good.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/13/26

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You cannot live in a world of absolute goodness. You must gradually come to it and understand how evil participates in creation and how it helps us become completely good.

Question: Are saying that evil must not be destroyed?

Answer: It must not. It has to exist alongside good and constantly help the good to reveal its unique quality.

Question: And what allows good to keep growing?

Answer: Evil.

Question: So, as soon as evil grows, good will grow as well, and this is how we advance?

Answer: Yes.

Question: To what heights can good rise?

Answer: To complete freedom of will.

Question: What does that mean? What lies behind it?

Answer: It is a state in which a person becomes absolutely good, completely corrected, entirely bestowing, and yet this does not hinder his further development.

Question: And this is all thanks to evil?

Answer: Yes. That is precisely why evil was created as the fundamental force of nature.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/17/26

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Question: Is humanity actually lacking a tiny ray of light in this dark realm?

Answer: Yes. I think that we will gradually break through this foolishness.

Question: What would it take for the Creator to shine a little light? Just a tiny bit?

Answer: He cannot. He has no right! The Creator has no right! Otherwise, He would violate the fundamental law of nature: egoism is completely opposite to Him!

Question: What does this law of nature provide?

Answer: It allows a person to become equal to the Creator at the end of correction. Otherwise, they would not.

Question: So, if He did that, He would suppress the person? The person would simply run after that little ray and keep chasing it forever?

Answer: Yes. In a sense, they might reach something halfway there, but to become equal to the Creator, to be free in one’s actions, to choose (by free will) likeness to the Creator, and to attain this similarity despite all problems—and to achieve that likeness despite all problems—to become independent, that is, to create another image of the Creator from all the laws and properties of the universe, that is what a person must do.

If the Creator were to do this, there would be no point in it. He does not have the right to change anything in these conditions; not even by an iota.

Question: So, according to your words, can we say that after some time, a
complete darkness will come?

Answer: Yes, naturally! The greatest darkness will come before the final correction.

Question: Before the ascent?

Answer: Yes! We have not yet seen it.

Question: So, this is not the end yet?

Answer: No. There will be a universal descent into savagery. As it is written, the nations of the world will rise against the people of Israel, and so on. In general, these will be terrible things.

Comment: You speak of “terrible things” and a “universal descent into savagery,” yet, you still seem to have some inner joy.

My Response: I have joy because this is a necessary stage that we must go through, and we can navigate it successfully by countering the darkness with light. That would truly be a massive leap forward.

Question: What must humanity do if it suddenly faces complete chaos and total darkness?

Answer: We must first grow to that state. Complete chaos and darkness will not be revealed unless we also have the possibility of revealing the light.

Question: Does the Creator give us only what we can endure? Will we be able to bear it and rise to our feet?

Answer: Of course. But for now, it is still dragging on, and on, and on. The more we tell the world about who and what it is, the faster the problems will arise, and the faster we will solve them.

Question: Then why do you keep urging the world to come to its senses? If that is the case, why bother? Let it simply be driven to that state of complete darkness.

Answer: That is exactly how it will be brought there! The more we know, the faster we will be brought to it. But we are obliged to go through it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/25/26

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Question: How should an ordinary person live so as not to divide life into periods of unhappiness and happiness, unhappiness and happiness?

Answer: Treat each day as an entire lifetime. Start from zero and end with zero. Give yourself completely during that day.

Question: In other words, live that day as if it were a whole life?

Answer: Yes, that is all. Tomorrow, I will wake up, and it will be a new life.

Question: How can I motivate myself so that from morning until evening I live fully, as though I were living an entire lifetime of 120 years in one day?

Answer: My students obligate me. I feel a sense of fear in front of them. Fear. I am obligated, I owe them. I have no right to leave them as they are. I must push them forward, inspire them. I must constantly awaken them. All of this concerns me deeply.

As for myself, no. I try not to make any calculations concerning myself.

Question: So the task is to give yourself completely?

Answer: The task is that before the morning lesson begins, when I wake up, even before I start preparing for the day, I consider myself already dead. Yes, dead. I need nothing from life except to give everything I have today.

Question: By “dead,” do you mean that I no longer exist? That I have no concern for myself, and that is how I go out into the world?

Answer: Exactly.

Question: So this is how I should start the day and how I should spend it?

Answer: Of course. Then you have a very correct accounting with yourself, with life, and with your students. After that, whatever happens is already in the hands of the Creator.

Question: If we apply this to an ordinary person, can he have the same attitude toward his family and children?

Answer: Absolutely the same. He sets himself aside and gives himself to others, to the world.

Question: To family, to those close to him, and to those far away?

Answer: Yes. Live this way, give yourself. You cannot imagine how good, light, free, and most importantly, how correct it is. But you will constantly be in tension: are you truly giving yourself to them?

Question: Is that a good kind of tension? Is there an element of happiness in it?

Answer: That is happiness.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/3/26

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Question: What if I were able to say that I have only today? I want to live it as if it were my last day. Is that the right approach?

Answer: Yes, certainly.

Question: How can a person do something that seems impossible?

Answer: By convincing yourself that when you think positively about the world, you improve the world and help bring it to a better state. This is your responsibility toward the world.

Comment: How did the world suddenly enter our discussion? We were talking about my life.

My Response: You were born for this: to think about how you can improve the world. You and only you. By wishing to improve the world, you ask for it to change.

Question: Do you realize that we are speaking about ordinary people?

Answer: Ordinary people. If we want to change our world, then we must think only about one thing: that we want it to change.

Question: And is that what it means to truly live life?

Answer: Of course. It means understanding that everything must be done now, without waiting.

Question: And where is my “I” in all this? Where is my personal decision?

Answer: In the present moment.

Question: Right now?

Answer: Right now. That is where your “I” exists. Beyond that, it does not exist. If you do not stop and decide, “Now, only now!” then you are no longer truly present.

Question: You once studied human capabilities. I think you even worked on research involving hypothermia and how much a person can endure.

Answer: Yes.

Question: What are the limits of human potential? Can a person actually reach such a state? Is it possible to live for the sake of the world in this way?

Answer: I think so. We simply need to speak to people about it.

Question: Do you believe that what we say actually enters people?

Answer: Yes, it helps.

Question: How does that happen? Where does it enter a person so that he suddenly changes?

Answer: Into the air.

Question: So, to summarize: how does a person live life with “one arrow,” with one chance?

Answer: One must constantly think about improving the world. Nothing else is required. Only thoughts, only our desires.

Question: And what do you mean by improving the world?

Answer: Good relations between people.

Question: As simple as that?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/11/26

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Question: What is the inner wisdom I arrive at as the years go by?

Answer: Where to run and for what purpose?

Question: Should I answer that question or not?

Answer: You do not have an answer.

Question: Should I be searching for it?

Answer: You will search. As long as you search, you will keep running. Then gradually, as you become convinced that there is nowhere to run, you will stop. And that is correct.

Question: Then what am I waiting for? I have stopped.

Answer: You are waiting for nothing. You simply see that no movement can replace tranquility.

Question: So I am arriving at a state of peace?

Answer: Yes, both inner and outer peace.

Question: What do you call the peace that I am arriving at?

Answer: The absence of an impulse to move.

Question: Then what is movement?

Answer: The desire to change your state.

Question: So, the right thought is not to change my state, to accept whatever is?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And what about the phrase, “Peace to the madman who will lull humanity a golden dream”? What about that?

Answer: Why do you want to drive the world mad? Let people simply understand that nullifying one’s ego before the Creator is the highest movement we can make.

Question: Is this what we ultimately come to? Is this peace?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this what is meant by bringing the Creator into this world?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/29/26

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Question: What would you call a sincere connection?

Answer: It is when you are understood. But that isn’t necessarily a good thing either. A person is left with very little of their true self in such a situation. After all, it is true that we don’t really want to open up.

Question: Yes, we are guarded, of course. So, what is a sincere connection?

Answer: I don’t know. It is when you feel at ease with a person. But with whom can you feel at ease, and consistently feel at ease?

Comment: That is also a problem.

My Response: Of course.

Question: What is a genuine connection?

Answer: A real connection is one in which you love a person and constantly want to do good for them.

Comment: You suddenly turned everything upside down. Instead of it being good for me, you say it should be good for the other person. And that is called a connection.

My Response: Yes. When I feel that I want to do good for them.

Question: If we are speaking about the upper one, about the Creator, what is a real connection?

Answer: That involves an equivalence of form. It means that I relate to the Creator in the same way that He relates to me. For that, I must change my nature, which, incidentally, is the nature He created in me. Therefore, I must ask Him to change it. That request itself is the connection.

Question: Can such a request be sincere?

Answer: Partly. Until I ask with complete sincerity.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/5/26

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Love disarms and deprives another person of their evil energy, and yourself as well.

Question: Why can’t we do this today? We very much want to, yet we cannot.

Answer: We are not accustomed to it. It has to become a part of our upbringing.

I had a very interesting incident in my youth. I used to tease a certain girl, and once I put my fist right up to her nose. And she kissed it. It stunned me completely! To this day I cannot forget it!

That was 65 or 70 years ago. Just imagine! And even now, when I recall it, I remember how unexpected it was for me, how utterly it disarmed me! I did not know what to do. I stood there confused, as though a bucket of filth had been poured over me! I suddenly felt who I really was.

It was terrible!

A single act like that, without words, without anything.

A terrible state!

Comment: And it remains. Listening to you tell this story now, I can see that it remains with a person for life.

My Response: Yes, it is within me. I still remember it.

Comment: It is a beautiful example! A very precise one.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/8/26

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Question: At the very end of Ecclesiastes, it is written: “The end of the matter, everything having been heard, fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the entire man.”

Could you explain these two principles? “Fear God.” What does that mean? For a person, fear is usually perceived as something negative.

Answer: “Fear God” means: do not let your egoism dominate and push you into all kinds of unnecessary actions. And “keep His commandments” means: follow His instructions.

Question: Which instructions?

Answer: Those instructions that apply in our world, what we see in our world. Build a normal path for yourself that you can proceed along calmly. There is no need to constantly stir everything up. Do not think that you are about to create something entirely new.

Question: Please explain that a little more. I understand not taking what belongs to others and following my own path. But what does it mean to follow my own path? How do I know what it is?

Answer: It means following what appears to you as common sense. Develop it, and with its help, you will walk correctly on the path of life.

Question: Does common sense mean normal, warm relationships with other people? That there should be love, not something excessive, but something sufficient and genuine?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So, creating such a warm circle around us, is that common sense?

Answer: That is common sense.

Question: If a person follows this approach, is that what is meant by “Fear God and keep His commandments”?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/27/26

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Don’t look at others! Not at all. You have a different soul; you cannot be Like them and they cannot be like you. So pay less attention to everyone else. Would Einstein have achieved anything if he had kept looking at others? It is impossible! You should only listen to yourself. Even if I make a mistake, this is me.

Question: What if we apply it to an ordinary, everyday person?

Answer: What does ordinary mean? Everyone can be extraordinary. Let them listen to themselves, heed their own inner voice. This is what I can do, this is what I want, and this is what I believe. It is not contrary to others, but it is coming from inside of me.

I have to pull my “me” out of myself. Then you will feel very comfortable with it, even in mistakes.

Comment: I am trying to apply this to myself now, but this is not so easy!

My Response: Just close your eyes, and you are alone! But you are with yourself; you are still not running away from yourself. This is all.

Question: And should I live this way?

Answer: Yes

Question: Is this your advice?

Answer: This is my advice. Then in order to realize it you will have to create a special environment for yourself, and so on. But this is still you alone.

Comment: I am thinking about my own experience. If I feel that “this is mine,” you say I have to grasp it and that is all. Now I have felt once: “this is mine,” for sure I have felt…

My Response: This is what I am realizing.

Comment: And do I go this way? That is it! And on the way there will be squalls and waves…

My Response: It does not matter; it will make me even closer to myself.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 4/24/26

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