Question: The great Kabbalist Baal HaSulam told a parable about a man who committed a serious crime against the king and was sentenced to 20 years and was exiled to a remote island where there were other exiles.

Once there, the disease of amnesia struck him. He forgot that he had a wife, children, friends, and acquaintances. He began to think that the whole world was nothing more than what he saw, this distant place with people, and he thought that he was born there. That is, all this became true for him.

The question is, can we say that we are exiled to this Earth?

Answer: Indeed, it is not our place of birth and development. That is, we are aliens on this Earth. We have not yet been given the opportunity to know from where and how. But we are strangers here on this Earth.

We are not suitable either in our development or in our nature for what is here. We exist this way because this is how the Creator wishes it for now.

Question: Why do we not treat this Earth as a mother?

Answer: We have no connection with it.

Question: Why are we being punished?

Answer: We are not punished. We are going through a developmental stage. There is no punishment in this.

Question: So did we need to be here to develop? To the point where our connection reaches the level of a higher power?

Answer: Yes, I do not think we will feel it here, in earthly life, but we are moving toward it.

Question: One may ask, what is the true reality? We take our existence as truth. But it is not true, as you say. Is it not so?

Answer: Correct.

Question: What is it—actual reality, truth?

Answer: The actual reality is that we can move away from our usual ideas about nature, ourselves, and the Creator, and realize our cosmic nature.

Question: But what is it like?

Answer: It is entirely unearthly and has nothing to do with our body, thoughts, or anything. We must rise above all of this. The actual world is what is out there somewhere…

Question: Above all the senses, above everything?

Answer: Above everything! It is what we will comprehend later in our completely new sensations.

Question: And this, in principle, cannot be described to a person? It is impossible. Only one who has comprehended this can feel the actual reality.

Answer: Yes.

Question: Please tell me what we still need to do to be returned from here to there.

Answer: We just need to want to unite.

Question: As I understand it, humanity now wants to wake up more and more because this dream is becoming more and more terrible. Almost everyone has a powerful feeling that something has changed. Is this a search for the truth, or is it just an escape from suffering?

Answer: It is not even an escape from suffering.

Question: What is it? Is a person simply looking for where he will feel good?

Answer: A person is looking for something to adhere to. Otherwise, every second becomes more prolonged and it makes no sense. It is hard for a person and nothing more.

Question: And nothing more? Are there no higher thoughts?

Answer: No! Nothing and nowhere.

Question: Will they, sooner or later, introduce us to the understanding that we must, as you say, take all these steps toward eternity, toward truth, toward our homeland?

Answer: We will get there. I hope we will somehow wake up from a terrible noise, rumble, and see the sky exploding. What will happen to us? That is when we’ll start thinking.

Question: So the whole task is to come to the question one way or another?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Have we not come to this question yet?

Answer: No! Let us come to the egoistic question: “What will happen to us?” At least get close to it, and then these wheels will slowly begin to move.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 3/25/24

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Dear Michael Laitman,

I am 92 years old. I have been living in Israel for 34 years. I love this country, I love my people. My children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, all are here, no one has left.

Tell me, we have been celebrating Independence Day in Israel for 76 years. We have defended Israel in six wars. Today, we are at war again, and I see that beasts are against us. Hamas are beasts. In the north, there are Hezbollah terrorists. Iran will not leave us alone. There is such antisemitism all over the world! It is scary for a Jew to walk the streets. So many people want our country not to exist, and this worries me greatly.

Michael, tell me, will we be able to celebrate our independence in a year or in ten years? I am not thinking about myself when I ask you this question.

My Response: I understand you, and am very touched by your words. I think that we will still celebrate Israel Independence Day in such a way that it will be a holiday for the whole world. For the whole world!

We will achieve the point where the idea outlined in the Torah becomes the fundamental idea of the existence of humanity “love your neighbor as yourself” first and foremost.

Question: So are you saying that if the country lives by this law we will celebrate these holidays all the time?

Answer: Absolutely.

Comment: But tell me, is it possible that we could be expelled from here by force?

My Response: I do not think that we can be expelled from here. I do not think that difficult times lie ahead. Now we need to think not only about ourselves but also about the world: what we say to the world, what we need to show it, what we need to lead it to. This is how we will defend our independence.

Question: Should we also defend it militarily today?

Answer: Of course! Of course, we must.

Question: Have you no doubts about that?

Answer: No. For Israel, peace is a means to spread the idea of “love your neighbor as yourself” to humanity. We must not forget this and always behave in accordance with this principle.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 5/6/24

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Mark writes:

I want to ask about Israel Independence Day. Today, there is so much negativity said about Israel, and there is so much pessimism, doubt, bitterness, and tragedy in the country. Dear Michael, say something encouraging, something uplifting on our Independence Day. People will listen to you, many listen to you.

My Response: I hope that those who listen to me and hear me, hear my approval of our celebration of Independence Day. It does not matter how it was established even though there are many questions here.

I believe it is a necessary holiday. No one can cancel it. There are many who do not welcome it because it is not a religious holiday.

Comment: But it is known that your teacher, Baal HaSulam, the teacher of teachers, a great Kabbalist, celebrated this day. He even raised the “holy” knife on Shabbat that he used to cut the Shabbat Challah, and on it was written: Medinat Yisrael, which means the State of Israel. This was a challenge for Orthodox Jews. He did it. So, did he recognize and fully support this holiday?

My Response: Yes.

Question: How should it be preserved?

Answer: We do not need to preserve it. We just need to constantly restore it. Because as long as we exist, we are obliged to fight to celebrate this day once a year precisely because the people decided that this is their independence and it must be marked.

Question: You said the word “fight.” Does that mean we have to fight for it? Can it be that we finally reach a point where this day…?

Answer: No, that cannot be.

Question: Will it always be through a struggle?

Answer: As long as our world is opposed to the spiritual world.

Question: In your opinion, what does Israel Independence Day mean for the world? For us, it is like our security, our freedom. But for the world, what is it?

Answer: For the world, Israel’s independence is a fundamental date marking the transformation of the world from the ancient world to the modern world, and from a world where Jews existed as oppressed, persecuted, and pressured people to a world where we can exist proudly in our own country.

Question: You just said that this is supposed to be for the Jews. Or did you actually say that it is a holiday for the world too?

Answer: It means a lot to the world too because it is precisely thanks to the Jews, thanks to Israel, and thanks to our independence that we can continue our existence in a way that allows the world to exist.

Question: So do we give something to the world?

Answer: It is not that we give something; we hold the world upon us.

Question: Does this tiny dot that is barely visible, like a pinhole, hold the world on itself and is the center of the world?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Why do you say this so confidently?

Answer: Because it symbolizes that piece of the world that strives to strengthen this world, to make everyone equal and worthy.

Question: And is this Israel?

Answer: This is Israel, of course. Its goal is to make the world for everyone.

Question: The existence of Israel is intended specifically for the world?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then will this be accepted by the world?

Answer: Then the world will accept this.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 5/6/24

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Question: A husband and wife ran a hotel for ordinary people. One day, a wealthy merchant came there. The wife saw his rich belongings and told her husband: “I have a powder called “forget everything.” I will add it to his rice, and he will forget some of his beautiful possessions.” So she did.

The guest had dinner, praised the hostess, and set off at dawn. The husband and wife rushed to his room to search for valuable things that had been forgotten. Suddenly, the husband shouted: “He forgot, he forgot!” “Forgot what?” his wife exclaimed joyfully. “He forgot to pay for the night.”

The question is this. We always want to let down one’s trust, which is our condition—a smile, good actions, deeds, and so on. A person can sit with an aging father or relative knowing his property will become his. Women marry millionaires, and so on. All soap operas are built on this. A person is not punished for that; this is how he receives. It is our world. In the parable, they are punished—the merchant forgot to pay.

Please tell me whether a person is still punished for this because he is trying to put another to sleep and take something from him.

Answer: Naturally, he is punished.

Question: Even though he maybe does not feel it?

Answer: Nature does not care that he does not feel it. In nature, all this is perfectly balanced.

Question: But all of humanity is this way. We smile the same way to get some position and befriend people to get something out of it. Is this human nature?

Answer: Yes, of course.

Question: And we are still punished for it. By what? By having this world?

Answer: Yes. It is our punishment. This world is a punishment.

Question: So, is everything that happens, including wars and all this suffering, caused by our attitude?

Answer: Yes. We do not wish happiness and kindness to anyone, or anything of this sort.

Question: Simply to wish. But it is not our fault, is it?

Answer: Go to the one who created you and tell Him: “Look how You created me! What can I do? I only scatter seeds of hatred around me. And it was You who made me this way.”

Question: And He expects us to go to Him with that?

Answer: He is waiting for us to reveal it and say it to Him, and then He will fix it.

Question: How do you feel about the proverb, “Don’t dig a hole for someone else; you’ll end up in it yourself”?

Answer: I do not particularly believe in this proverb.

Comment: Although you just said that we are being punished.

My Response: Yes, but it is all relative. How many holes have we dug for others and then not noticed that they are coming to us? If they came, it would be good. We would learn quickly.

Question: How does this match? You first said that we are being punished in some way. So, are we still being punished?

Answer: Yes, but we do not know what for, why, or how. It is a problem.

Question: If we did something wrong and got it right away, we would understand it was terrible. So we do not get it?

Answer: No.

Question: But it is good like this: what if I did something terrible and got it right away? Is it good or bad?

Answer: No, this is bad. It would not educate us. We would be like soldiers.

Comment: But a person would realize: I do something terrible and get punished.

My Response: He would do this because he realizes his actions were wrong.

Question: But in reality, how should it be?

Answer: Not to want to do evil in the first place.

Question: Not to want to hate? Should this be our main request?

Answer: Yes.

Question: I must feel that I want to do evil and hate?

Answer: Yes! Necessarily! I feel bad that I discovered this and asked the Creator to change this property in me.

Question: Will we ever get there?

Answer: Necessarily!

Question: So, is this the ending one way or another?

Answer: Yes.

Replica: If I can now somehow pull myself together and feel that I…

Answer: You cannot.

Question: When that hour comes, what can I do? You say that they are taking us there.

Answer: This is called the “last generation.” We are at the beginning, still only at the beginning.

Question: What is the last generation?

Answer: It is when humanity reveals its evil nature, opposite to the Creator, and passionately desires change.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 3/4/24

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If I had a son, I would tell him that the world presents a playful change of scenes, and one should not seek in it either a wise plan or a lofty goal.

If he learns to accept the turns of fate, to love the variability of life, and not to resist it with all the strength of his soul, then he will become the person God intended him to be (Milán Füst)

Question: What did God intend for us?

Answer: We cannot say that immediately. It will only come as a result of our great work on ourselves. Then we will come to a position where we will be fulfilled with God’s attitude toward us.

Question: Will it be important to us?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Do you agree with the statement that “It is not worth seeking in life neither a wise plan nor a lofty goal”?

Answer: It is because an ordinary person cannot do it anyway.

Question: Cannot find them?

Answer: Yes, it is better if he does not seek either meaning or purpose.

Question: How will he live then?

Answer: He will live just to live. Then he will understand the meaning of precisely such an attitude of the Creator toward him even earlier.
Question: So in this simple way, just living, will he still come to an understanding?

Answer: He will come to it faster.

Question: Faster than if he philosophizes, lives, seeks meaning, and so on?

Answer: Yes, undoubtedly.

Question: How do we learn to accept all turns of fate? Here it is said: “Accept all turns of fate. This is a playful change of scenes,” and so on. How do we learn? Today fate turns sharply.

Answer: You have to perceive all this with some excitement, like a game. When, for example, the opponent makes a move on the chessboard or slams a new card on the table, and you have a vision of your next move. Then you should be happy that you are in connection with such a person. You want to reveal the Creator in connection with him.

Question: Is every step I take in response an adventure? My own, internal one? And all my thoughts are: “How? What?”

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then you said the phrase: “You find yourself in connection with the Creator.” Is this thought, even if I do not have it, exactly what leads to such a journey through life?

Answer: Yes, this is what you want to reach.

Question: Is this the final destination of my journey?

Answer: Yes.

Question: They say it is infinite.

Answer: Yes, it is infinite.

Question: So what does that mean?

Answer: Nothing. Live and rejoice in your infinity.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/28/23

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Question: Two chipmunks sit under the warm September sun and one asks the other: “Tell me, what is the meaning of life?”

The second chipmunk thought and said: “Remember last year? There was a drought, the forest was burning, there was nothing to eat, hungry foxes were looking for us, and we were hungry. We had to run around to survive. We were not looking for this meaning. It turns out that there was one then. Look now that we are safe, foxes and people do not bother us, there is a lot of food, life is okay, but we are looking for this meaning. Does that mean we lost it?”

The chipmunk’s logic is ironclad. Why don’t we look for the meaning of life when we feel good.

Answer: What for? There are no desires; there is enough of everything. Therefore, we are not looking for any meaning in life. Life is right there. Is it fulfilled? Yes. Does it give us all sorts of pleasures? Yes.

Question: So, does life have meaning?

Answer: No, there is no meaning to life, but there is no suffering.

Question: Does this mean the Creator must do some kind of trick to make us look for the meaning of life?

Answer: Certainly.

Question: Is this necessary?

Answer: Yes, how else could it be? What about a child? If you do not force him, he will not grow.

Question: So I have to push all the time. Your conclusion is that a person must experience suffering.

Answer: Yes, but people do not understand. They think: “Let’s remove suffering from the world, and it will be a good world. Why didn’t the Creator create it like that?” It is because otherwise, humanity would not advance.

Question: If there were sunshine, we would go outside, feel good, smile at each other, and live, live, live. Are you saying that the world would stagnate in that case?

Answer: Yes, you would see the whole world, how it just lies there, people dying, everything is fine and rotting away.

Question: That is if there is no suffering?

Answer: Yes.

Question: People will never understand this. A person does not want to suffer, isn’t that right?

Answer: Yes, but in principle, we must raise our mental level and our requirements and look at ourselves from the outside.

Question: One way or another, does suffering lead to something?

Answer: Suffering leads to awareness of its cause. When we suffer, we want to know why and how to overcome it.

Question: What is the main cause of suffering? It must lead to something someday.

Answer: Gradually, suffering leads humanity to the realization that man is the whole cause of suffering.

Comment: I start with the fact that my neighbor, or neighbors, or the neighboring country…

My Response: We have gone through this a long, long time ago. If we really wanted to know the cause of suffering, we would quickly understand that it is in our egoism.

Question: Is it in us? Is this the main thing that drives us?

Answer: Yes.

Question: The moment  I understand that the whole cause of suffering is in us, in our egoism, what happens? Does suffering stop? Is there no need to drive us away?

Answer: Certainly.

Comment: If we say that the Creator pushes humanity through suffering, then He calms down when we understand that the whole trouble is in us.

My Response: He does not calm down. The Creator does not need to change Himself. If we change, suffering disappears.

Question: The whole problem is in me. I finally understand it. What next? What are my next steps?

Answer: If I strive to eliminate suffering, I look for its cause. If my hatred of everything around me causes my suffering, I change my attitude toward everything.

Question: Do I always have to tune in my hatred?

Answer: Yes, gradually, gradually by changing it, I begin to feel that this is leading me to a good life. That is all. As soon as I rise above this hatred or replace it with love and a warm attitude, the suffering stops.

Question: What is this life called? This is no longer earthly life because our lives are different.

Answer: It doesn’t matter. Let’s call it earthly.

Question: Is this how man and humanity start living?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this possible? Do you believe in it? It sounds logical.

Answer: I do not believe in it. But if we wanted, we could realize how we can force the Creator to change us so that we do this.

Comment: Meaning, we would feel that the whole reason…

My Response: The whole reason is hatred.

Question: And we should ask Him?

Answer: Yes, we must ask Him. That is all.

Comment: This is a different psychology, the “I can change” psychology. You say that I cannot change.

My Response: I cannot change in any way. The only thing I can do is to ask the Creator to change me. And then the sun will shine.

Question: We do not feel or see the Creator. We pronounce the word “Creator,” and despite this, is my appeal to that which I do not see and do not know or understand at all effective?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So are you in favor of a person who does not understand anything and still turns to the Creator? You say it will work.

Answer: Yes, it will work. We see small children and newborns crying. What they are crying about is unclear, but it is a sign of their bad feelings.

Question: They cry: “Make me feel good!” Should a person do the same?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But in principle, his cry should be, as you say: “Turn my hatred around, make me loving”?

Answer: But this is already conscious, and there are other states.

Question: This is a high state. This is what we must come to, exactly?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 3/4/24

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Comment: It is interesting that in Japan, instead of “I love you,” they sometimes say, “You are my silence.”

My Response: Beautiful

Question: How would you comment on that?

Answer: It is clear that they appreciate silence, and that is why they say it that way.

Question: Do you also appreciate silence?

Answer: Yes.

Question: To sit like this and be silent, is that it?

Answer: I can be in silence for eternity.

Question: There are a lot of comments on your videos that it is better to remain silent. Silence is golden, as it is said. And so people ask, “When to keep silent, when to speak?”

Answer: Always keep silent!

Question: But before that, we agree that we will remain silent?

Answer: There is no need to agree, just react that way.

Question: And is this how this chain will continue, you start and then?

Answer: Yes, and everyone will gradually understand that.

Question: Will the state that it is good to be silent come?

Answer: Yes, silence is loud and filled with a great amount of information.

Question: And is that why there is no need for unnecessary information?

Answer: There is no need for unnecessary movement or words.

Question: But what about the good words we express?

Answer: It is all empty.

Question: What about saying “I love you,” for example?

Answer: That is because a woman wants it.

Question: And can the same thing be said silently?

Answer: I would not say anything, but say it if necessary.

Question: “They love with their ears,” they say. Is this correct in your opinion?

Answer: Of course.

Question: So should it be said to a woman?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/1/24

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Alyona writes:

Dear Michael Laitman,

Parenting is one of my greatest concerns today.
I found this quote from Korney Chukovsky: “Hearing a fairy tale, a child usually sides with the kind, courageous, or unfairly treated. Our whole task is to awaken, foster, and strengthen, in the pliable mind of a child, this precious ability to empathize, sympathize, and share other’s joy, without which a human is not really a human.

In your opinion, which books should be available to a child? A battle of good and evil so the child can choose a good force or books that describe this world as completely good without any evil?

Answer: At first, completely kind books for elementary school children if I may say so. And then in a more natural way books where evil is present on a par with good: Good wins, evil retreats, and so on until a child matures and begins to read books and novels where evil prevails.

Comment: Such is a person’s preparation.

My Response: To bring him out of fairy tales and introduce him to real life.

Question: And in real life where evil wins?

Answer: Of course. So a child must learn not to oppose evil because he will only bring problems on himself. He must learn that evil wins, but he should remain on the sidelines; at no point does he engage in a fight against evil.

Comment: I understand this progression. At first, he is just a small, gentle child; we don’t want to scare him. The first stage is clear. Second, gradually evil appears, yet good still wins. This too is clear, so he would be on the side of good. Then you made a drastic turnaround, you said our world is all evil.

My Response: Meaning, we explain to a child that although there is good and evil in our world, we need to dodge evil.

Question: Is this what we explain to the child?

Answer: Yes, to a child, but only at the third stage.

Question: So you don’t accept evil after all? One should avoid it, as you said. This is the third stage.

When does he understand that our world is built on evil?

Answer: He will understand this when he is in the third stage. He will turn away, step back, and distance himself from it. Then comes quite an interesting stage when he gets involved with evil and uses it for his own selfish needs, career advancement and so on.

Question: So our little protagonist, who started out so pure, suddenly climbs the career ladder, stepping on others and so on?

Answer: Yes

Question: And then the fifth stage, should he understand he is like that?

Answer: We have not yet reached this in our world, so we have no clear examples. That is why I don’t want to talk about it.

Question: But should he at least come to the conclusion that this is bad?

Answer: He must come to the conclusion that he cannot live in such a world, that indeed in our world of egoism everything is distorted. So he has no choice but to simply distance himself from this world as much as possible, because he still has to exist, provide for his children, and so on. But in general it is a problem.

Comment: It’s a problem to isolate yourself from this world. Especially now when social media is everywhere.

My Response: Yes, but if he knows this basic principle, he distances himself from the world.

Question: The principle that it’s all a lie, that everything he’s being fed is paid for and that he needs to distance himself?

Answer: Right.

Question: Then just tell us the right way to distance oneself. What should one surround oneself with? No wonder, Alyona asks: “What to make available to a child?” And now I’m asking you about adults: what should one surround oneself with, how can one distance oneself from the world?

Answer: Surround yourself with self-care. Find something you love besides work or home. I remember I had a neighbor who was into woodwork. That’s all. That was his activity. He searched for all sorts of wood, logs, and everything else and then worked on them. Made birdhouses, all that kind of stuff. He liked it.

Question: So you are gradually, gently bringing us to such a way of distancing yourself from the world by taking up a hobby? Collecting soldiers, I don’t know how to process woodworking?

Answer: It doesn’t matter, yes.

Question: And then? Still, how do we take care of the soul?

Answer: Well, I’m talking about ordinary people.

Comment: But let’s take it a step further.

My Response: This will bring him closer to his soul.

Question: So we have now gone from a small child to an adult. Where should a person come to as a result, having gone all this way, in the end?

Answer: To the fact the simplest handiwork softens the soul. In general, he will be satisfied with his existence.

Question: But will this question vex him, after all, such a small question about his soul?

Answer: Maybe, yes, and maybe that will be enough for the level of development of his soul.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/21/23

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Question: You wrote your book Attaining The Worlds Beyond 30 years ago if not more.

This book is also published in audio format. This means it will be even more accessible. This is the most accessible format today—people do not read. They prefer to listen in the subway or the car.

This book became book number one for many. Thanks to this book, many people came to Kabbalah and thought about the meaning of life.

Please tell me what you put into this book. What is the secret?

Answer: It seems to me that I simply tried to express my impressions of my encounter with Kabbalah there. Maybe it is because this book is so direct that people respond to it so much.

Comment: You also said that you wrote it in just about two weeks.

My Response: Correct.

Question: At what point does it happen that a person delivers it in such a way?

Answer: When it accumulates and pressures him from within, then that person just pours it all on paper.

Question: Did you feel like you were obligated to pour it out?

Answer: Yes; otherwise, it would weigh on me. It is like giving birth.

Question: Does this book sound like a child?

Answer: Yes.

Question: The audio version of this book is coming out now. People will listen. How is listening different from reading? What works more or less here?

Answer: Reading is still more intimate, and listening to someone is no substitute for reading.

Comment: Recently humanity has been listening to audiobooks more and more. But you still encourage reading in the old-fashioned way.

My Response: I am for reading. It is very intimate. I would not replace one with the other.

Comment: But you can combine it somehow. Listen while driving when there is no opportunity to read. And then come home and read it.

My Response: If I listen to something like that internally, I cannot drive a car and listen. I am in it with all my senses.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 3/25/24

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Question: Light and Darkness met. “What do people find in you?”—exclaimed Darkness in surprise. “Neither beauty nor mystery—you just hurt one’s eyes!”

Light did not answer. It just politely stepped aside and silently illuminated the road because Darkness was heading toward an abyss without even seeing it.

Today everyone has the feeling that we are approaching an abyss and there is no one to light the way. What can light the way?

Answer: Mutual assistance and compassion. Only that.

Question: So if we manage to approach each other, we will be able to see that we are approaching the abyss?

Answer: Yes.

Question: In this parable, Light did not say anything to Darkness, it simply stepped aside and illuminated the path. It illuminated the path anyway. Why does light shines on everyone: criminals, haters, simply everyone!

Answer: This is its property, to shine on everyone.

Question: It seems to say: “Move away, you are interfering with me.” And Light moved aside and continued to shine. This is some kind of annulment. That is, someone sees this light, and someone does not. How can one see it? How can one feel that it is light?

Answer: This is the light of bestowal, the light of compassion, the light of rapprochement. This is the meaning of light.

Question: That is, light as such, as something extraneous, does not exist?

Answer: No, these are not photons that illuminate our retina.

Question: And not the light that is spoken about in spiritual practices, but namely the rapprochement between us?

Answer: Yes, it provides the condition where light spreads from itself and further on in all directions. And if this connection does not exist, then light cannot unite and conduct itself through all the matter.

Question: Suppose, people connect, do they begin to shine for everyone?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Or is this abyss visible only to them now?

Answer: No, this cannot happen. It shines for all.

Comment: That is, connection of even a handful of people brings light for everyone.

My Response: Yes. Initially they should realize what they connect for if they get connected. There must be an intention in advance to achieve light for everyone.

Question: Why should people connect?

Answer: To shine for everyone.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 3/25/24

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