Question: If I acquire the quality of bestowal, how will my system of perception work then?

Answer: In bestowal you begin to perceive everything as a common field and nothing else! You will begin to see everything as one single whole that shimmers with all sorts of waves of influence on you in order to change you.

In fact, these waves do not exist either. Then you will come to the conclusion that this is how your sensitivity changes inside you in terms of the quality and quantity of your 613 desires, and therefore, you feel these waves, these shimmerings, these images in the field. Then you will begin to feel that in addition to the field of your perception, there is a constant field of bestowal, love, and emanation.

Question: How will I perceive various corporeal objects?

Answer: In no special way. Like all kinds of inanimate objects, that is, imprints of your desires, the ones that have no actions of their own, like everything else. You look at everyone and everything around you, and perceive them because you see your qualities turned outward.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Other World” 4/27/12

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Question: There is a Jewish parable about a man who one day visited a sage and began to complain: “Everything is bad for me: I lost my job, my wife is sick, my daughter still can’t get married, and my son doesn’t want to study. What should I do?” The sage said: “There is an old remedy. You need to take a lot of pieces of paper, write on them ‘All this will pass,’ and put the pieces of paper in every room. The visitor did not understand what it was said, and left. But since the sage said it, he did as he was told. After a couple of years, this visitor returned to the sage happy. “How grateful I am to you! I found a great job, my wife recovered, my daughter got married, my son finished his studies and is perfectly settled. Everything is fine! Thank you very much”! Then he added: “I just wanted to ask: those pieces of paper that I put in the house in the rooms, can they be removed already?” “Why remove them? ” said the sage, “let them lie down for now.” That is, this too will pass.

It was also written on King Solomon’s ring: “Everything passes.” What kind of wisdom is this? What kind of words are these that turn everything, all the grief goes away? What is it?

Answer: It is a different way of looking at the world. No more than that. Nothing changes. Only the view of a person changes.

Comment: Nevertheless, he said that everything was fine with him, and everything settled.

My Response: Yes, his attitude to life, to the world, and his outlook has changed, and therefore everything has settled down.

Question: What advice can be given to humanity and man, when he is not well here, today?

Answer: There is nothing that is wrong today. Today, everything is fine already.

Question: Is this what they call “everything passes”?

Answer: Yes. Absolutely everything is in a good state, and don’t invent bad states yourself.

Question: And if I feel bad at all?

Answer: There is no such thing as bad. It is what you are drawing for yourself.

Question: Don’t you believe that there are such terrible states when a person feels bad? Well, bad!

Answer: Actually, it is not a bad thing. There is nothing wrong.

Comment: It is not easy for a person to convince himself of this.

My Response: There is no need to be convinced. You just must accept it and that is it.

Question: What does it mean to put notes in all the rooms and that everything will pass?

Answer: It is to remind yourself because every minute you must come back to such a state that everything passes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/15/22

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Comment: A Sufi was asked: “Venerable, why are there no traces of sadness on your face?” “I do not have anything worth grieving about the loss of,” the Sufi replied.

We are in sorrow all the time. We wanted something, but did not get it. A scratch on the car, we were fooled, or we were not given the position we wanted. We are constantly sad, all the time.

My Response: What a disaster!

Question: Yes! Humanity is like that. You see what is happening! It is in sorrow all the time. And this chain of sadness becomes our life. Can you, please, explain how not to be sad? How can we not be sad?

Answer: First, accept everything as coming from nature—from the Creator. And there should be no objections. And ask for one thing all the time—rapprochement, connection, and adhesion. Then everything will be fine.

Comment: But man is desire. And I always have desires. This one did not come to pass, that one did not come to pass, and still another one did not come to pass. How can I work with this? I am not filled with what I wanted to be filled with.

My Response: What would you like to be filled with?

Comment: What would I like? You name it!

My Response: If you imagine that in the next minute you are gone, then everything is fine.

Comment: Yes, then you are happy with the moment you are in now. That is all.

My Response: You are happy not because you are alive and have continued to live for one more minute but because you simply exist in this moment that the Creator has given you. And you live in it and try to adhere to Him.

Of course, one must strive to the best of one’s ability to ensure one’s future, and so it is written in the Torah, but nothing more.

Question: But if it is not secured, should I accept it?

Answer: Of course.

Question: That is, I want something, but whatever happens, happens and that is it?

Answer: Yes, definitely.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 1/12/23

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What changes should a person go through in order to disconnect from the corporeal perception of reality in parameters of time, movement, space, and move on to the feeling of spiritual reality?

We perceive reality in our desire to receive. What we feel inside this desire is called this corporeal world. If we rise above the definitions of time, movement, and space, we will reach a new perception—the spiritual world.

We are so trapped inside the corporeal axes of space and time that we cannot even imagine what could be outside of them. That is why there is the wisdom of Kabbalah that teaches us how to receive (Kabbalah = reception, a new perception, that is, a feeling of the spiritual world revealed in our new, spiritual sensory organs) and how to move from corporeal sensations to spiritual ones. This is the work of man.

Life in this world is designed to move from corporeal perception to spiritual perception. Kabbalists advise us on how to make such a change within us in order to move from the corporeal world based on reception to the spiritual world of bestowal.

To the extent that we manage to replace the egoistic sensory organs within us with altruistic ones, to this extent we will be able to experience the upper world, that is, the reality perceived in the new sensory organs built on bestowal and connection.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/27/23, “Perception of Reality”

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Spiritual worlds are built upon connection of opposites: light and darkness, plus and minus, bestowal and reception, that is, all kinds of inverse qualities in all their forms.

If we can ignore these differences so that it is not the change of qualities that is important to us but the connection, which means that we raise the connection above the oppositeness of qualities, then we will reveal their common upper root inside them. In this way, we will reveal the Creator, the common upper force, and we will reveal the upper reality in this form.

The upper world differs from the lower world in that it is all altruistic, giving, uniting, and loving. The lower world, on the contrary, is rejecting and hating.

Therefore, it is said about the spiritual world that we must turn darkness into light and connect as one person with one heart so that there are no contradicting qualities between us that deny each other. On the contrary, we are always yearning to unite according to spiritual law and to complete each other.

If we do not succeed, then we understand that we were born with such qualities and must live with them, and we just need to strengthen the connection between us. We do not change our nature from reception to bestowal, but we change it to reception in order to bestow.

This is the entire patent. Nothing changes except the intention that we need to correct. And if we cover all crimes and our desire to receive and enjoy at the expense of someone else with the intention for the sake of bestowing to the other, then by this we correct our desire. Although it remains a desire to receive, it works with the intention for the sake of bestowal and connects us into one whole.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/27/23, “Perception of Reality”

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Those righteous ones, the authors of The Zohar, and especially Rabbi Shimon, their thoughts and words were in actual deeds, for according to the quality of the innovations in the Torah that they discovered, the upper degrees were promptly set up and arranged after them in actual fact. That is, the righteous build worlds with their innovations in the Torah (Zohar for All, Beresheet – 1, Article “The Sling-Stone,” Item 200).

Question: Are these worlds internal or external?

Answer: Everything is inside a person. There is nothing outside of us. Everything that seems to us as existing outside of us: the world, stars, people, and the Earth is the way we feel what is happening within us. There is nothing outside. All our perception of reality, as if I take something, hold it in my hands, and see it; all this appears only inside me.

Therefore, to the extent that I change and improve my qualities, I see a different world, a new world. But everything is inside a person. A person is a small world and he includes everything.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/6/23, Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “Torah and Prayer”

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Question: You say that there is nothing stronger than a thought connected with a desire. What do thought and desire mean separately?

Answer: This happens only with respect to us. We are constantly talking to each other on a level called psychology.

It does not give us the opportunity to clearly explore our desires as forces with information records that can be divided into ten Sefirot (emanations). We do not study them in three lines: in receiving, bestowing, and in the middle line between them, in balance as on a scale. All this is impossible to study at the level of psychology.

But from it, we slowly rise to the level that Kabbalah speaks of, to the level where these forces are weighed and their vector orientation of interaction with each other is correctly evaluated. From these forces, we can create an entire vector field, check it, analyze it, change it, and thus control ourselves and the rest of the world.

This is what Kabbalah allows us, but only in the right direction and by no means forcing others to do so, since you are entering a realm where you have clear limitations. As soon as you cross a certain threshold and you suddenly have the opportunity to do something wrong, everything immediately disappears.

In the spiritual world, there is a safeguard; it is impossible to harm the world more than on our small, insignificant, earthly level.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Power of Thought is the Manipulation of Consciousness.” 23/01/27

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Comment: You say that sometimes we underestimate the power of thought and the extent to which it is possible to turn everything around using thought.

My Response: Thoughts and desires are the most important and highest forces that instantly permeate the entire universe from end to end. Instantly! There is no greater, higher, or stronger power than the mind connected with desire.

All other forces are much smaller. If we were given the opportunity to use thought and desire purposefully, we would destroy, burn, and ruin everything around us immediately.

The fact is that our egoistic forces of the heart and mind (meaning desires and thoughts), manifest themselves within us in a very weak form at the level of our world. And as soon as we begin to possess the altruistic forces of connection (the right line), to this extent we begin to develop the left line—negative, egoistic connections.

By managing both forces,, we are constantly creating a system of balance. Then the middle force (the middle line) is revealed, called the supreme force of nature, the force of unity.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Power of Thought is the Manipulation of Consciousness”

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Perception of reality is the most important topic because a person wants to know in what reality he exists, in what kind of world he was born.

How are the upper worlds and the lower world built, how do they exist, by what forces are they controlled, what is the reason for such existence, what are its results, and toward what everything is moving—we need to reveal all this. And this is why the correct perception of reality is so important.

For simplicity of understanding, we can say that there are two worlds: the upper world and the lower world or the spiritual world and the corporeal world. In the corporeal world, which we feel with our five senses, we exist according to the flow of time.

Time is our inner feeling, and according to our feeling everything happens at some time. We associate the flow of time with various external factors: the sun, moon, stars, and past events that give us a general sense of the past.

We do not know what the upper (spiritual) world is. But according to the stories of Kabbalists, people who have revealed the upper worlds, other times and forms of existence operate there. We can reveal them, feel and exist in them, and in this way we will attain the eternal and perfect reality in which there is no beginning and no end. There we exist above time, space, and all movement.

The spiritual reality exists outside of time, motion, and space, and the corporeal world is inside time, motion, and space. Since our sensory organs are based on the perception of a corporeal system of coordinates, meaning, time, place, and motion, we therefore feel only this reality.

If we want to feel the true, spiritual reality, we will have to rise to it in our perception by changing our sensory organs. We will no longer feel reality as a physical movement in corporeal time, but we will feel it in a spiritual form, and this is how we will live. The Book of Zohar writes that spiritual time is determined by the change of forms and degrees that are above space and time.

It is very important to imagine what the upper spiritual world is, which exists above time, motion, and space, and how we can feel it, live in it, and connect everything that is there with our corporeal world so that these two worlds will merge into one for us.

When we attain what time based on changing forms and degrees means, we will understand what the corporeal world is and what the spiritual world is and how these two worlds are connected. We will also understand why the Creator created us with a sense of the corporeal world and why from here we must ascend to the upper, the spiritual, world in order to feel ourselves between two worlds— the upper and the lower.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/27/23, Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “On the Night of the Bride”

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Question: To what extent do you feel this world? Is there still some sort of borderline? If some experts in their field come up to you and claim: “I am very good at it,” and you do not need to plunge into it. Is there any borderline here?

Answer: If specialists in something artificially created by man in any field come to me, then I can learn something from them for the purpose of dissemination. And for my personal spiritual elevation, I do not need any specialist.

But since I deal with teaching, that is, I turn to students, I am happy to meet with specialists. They help me find new examples and develop the language.

I published several books with psychologists. And I can also talk about Kabbalah with historians from a historical perspective, and so on. That is, I am ready to communicate with them.

Let the physicists come. It is more difficult to find a common language with them, but still it is possible somewhere on the so-called “periphery.” In other words, there is no common language inside physics and Kabbalah, but outside there is. For example, if physicists begin to tell me about all sorts of processes that take place in atoms, I will see them in the form of Reshimot, light, and Kli at different levels of entry and exit of the light when the screen expires, suppose from Tabur to Peh. It is interesting for me.

The same is true about chemistry, biology, zoology, and so on. The principle is the same! The exchange between plus and minus is all nature! There is nothing else. This is at different levels. After all, an electron, an atom is the basis of everything.

I have always strived for a complete picture of the world. A partial one never suited me. I could not stand a partial one! What is the point in sitting somewhere in a corner and picking at bugs there?! I could not stand it!

Only the general picture! Only the global one! You see, you understand, and you connect all the elements of the picture into one common whole, harmony, a huge panel, a palette of everything. It is breathtaking when everything opens up in front of you, and you see and feel it! It is fantastic!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Border between the Spiritual and the Corporeal” 1/28/12

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