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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Question: You say: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” But I do not hear you, for example. How do I come to the conclusion that these are exactly the gates that I must enter?

Answer: You will bump your nose against these gates and understand that there cannot be any other gates! And besides these gates there is nothing, just emptiness.

Question: Is this what is written by the great Kabbalists, that you walk along the wall and there are no gates? And suddenly at some point, when you are already walking exhausted, you suddenly see—gates. And it turns out they were always there.

Answer: Yes.

Question: And I did not see them?

Answer: No.

Question: And what did I need to see them? They were always there, they were!

Answer: You lack disappointment.

Question: So I must be disappointed in everything?

Answer: Absolutely. In everything! So that only one thing remains: Dvekut (spiritual adhesion) and brotherhood! We do not know what that is. We keep using substitutes and surrogates. But then we will feel it.

Question: Can you at least give a hint? It is clear that if we do not feel, then we might not be able to hear you. But what do you mean by “brotherhood”?

Answer: Brotherhood is when we all find ourselves in one desire, one intention, in complete fusion, in the connection of everyone with everyone. And we return again to the system that is called “Adam,” like a single person in one body, in one heart. This is the correct future.

This must stand before us! This is how this future must stand before me as an obvious, achievable, necessary state.

Question: You just painted what we must come to after all our wanderings and disappointments?

Answer: Precisely why they are needed—to arrive at this state.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 4/15/26

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Question: Is it really possible to just go from hatred to love? One moment you hate, clearly hate, and suddenly after some time passes, say next year, we shift to love. Can that happen, or is it fantasy?

Answer: We can do that. We are in such extreme states, states that are opposite to this feeling, that we are capable of doing it.

Comment: That is very strange. You said that since we are in opposite states, we can do it.

My Response: Yes, because we see where we end up, where all our efforts and achievements vanish, everything slips through our fingers, and we cannot achieve anything. We are like blind, foolish puppies. That is how we live. It is terrible! I have no words for it!

But if we ask nature to change us, we will experience a transformation of forces, feelings, and qualities beyond anything we could expect. Because the Creator is love.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 4/28/26

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Question: How do I find out what nature has in store for me and where it is leading me?

Answer: Nature is leading you to realize the possibilities you have to change the future, and reach it. This depends on each person’s participation in that future.

Question: What possibilities do I have? I don’t think I have any special ones. But tell me, what are they?

Answer: You do!

Question: What?

Answer: Of course, I do not have such a site where you would go in, pay, and get a guarantee.

Question: Yes, but in principle, what must I do?

Answer: You need to want to find out about your influence on your future. You must build it, create it. It is what you make of it. They tell you the laws of nature, and from them, as from some construction set, you must assemble your future.

Question: What is the main law of nature?

Answer: The main law of nature is the correspondence of a person with the law of nature. I am not over complicating things. The law of nature is the law of universal bestowal and love, universal unification, universal mutual complementation until the ideal picture of the system of the world is revealed before us.

Question: Is it only toward this that I as a person must go?

Answer: Yes. And nothing more.

Question: That is, I should not struggle with anything?

Answer: Struggle only with the aim of fulfilling this law.

Question: With whom does this struggle take place?

Answer: The struggle is with oneself, of course. Only that. So do not blame the mirror. This is how we must work, and then what we make is what we will receive.

Question: That is, if everyone directs himself toward himself—everyone, but toward himself, not toward another—then will we turn this picture of the future upside down?

Answer: As much as we wish. As much as we want, so much we will do.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 4/23/26

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