Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Is there a specific way love should feel?“

Mutual, reciprocal and whole among all people in the world.

It is because love is the force that binds us together in our whole and eternal state as a single soul, which we are all parts of.

How can we feel this mutual love among us as a single soul?

We can feel mutual love when we all connect, feel a common connection between us, and try to fulfill each other through such a connection.

Based on the Daily Kabbalah Lesson with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on July 28, 2023, “According to the Sorrow, So Is the Reward.” Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What are the biggest problems in the world right now and how do we solve them?“

Our main problem is when we try to egoistically fulfill ourselves at the expense of others, when we enjoy by completely disregarding other people and the system of nature we exist in.

We need to understand that we live in a unified system of nature. We are each deeply integrated with everyone and everything, including minerals, plants, fungi, the animal kingdom, and all the people of the world.

By running on autopilot and blindly following the beck and call of our egoistic desire to do whatever we feel like regardless of others, we bring a lot of harm to ourselves and to nature.

If we consider the benefit of all the people in the world, then our actions become aligned with wholeness. That is the key change we need to undergo in order to solve our every problem.

How can we make that change? It is a matter of education.

Education is not only the learning we receive in schools, colleges, universities and so on, but we become educated by every influence and example we receive from society. We thus need to upgrade the values with which we influence ourselves in our societies, by promoting, exemplifying and teaching about the need to shift from self-concern to concern about others.

When we connect positively to others in such a way, the machinery of our lives then operates in balance with nature. We will then experience the full amount of pleasure, joy, happiness and fulfillment that exists in nature, and never bring harm upon ourselves ever again.

Based on the video “Who Is Pharaoh in Our Lives Today?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Which one do you think is the function of autistic people in the world we live in?“

The human soul is a diverse and multileveled phenomenon.

I understand that there are autism classifications according to various external and internal signs, and the use of tests to determine the phenomenon. However, in my perception of humanity and reality in general, I would not consider autistic people separate from others, because we are all autistic to a certain degree.

In some ways, we are normal, in some ways geniuses, and in some ways stupid, peasants, workers, freemen, masters and servants. In other words, we find everything in everybody in various combinations.

The function of autistic people in the world depends on their incorporation in their respective social environments, because our environment is of primary importance in differentiating each person from others. I think we simply have yet to find the optimal method by which we could connect people classified as autistic with everyone else.

Autism is a social problem of the relationship with the surrounding environment. For instance, if an autistic child is in supportive and encouraging surroundings—a group or friends who organize supportive and encouraging interactions with older children who know how to behave well—then I am sure that it is possible to pull the child out of any state because the influence of the environment, especially on the autistic person, produces an immense effect.

I do not know the medications specialists use, but in my perception and understanding, a supportive and encouraging influence that is goal oriented—not only on a child but on any person—is able to shift the person out of any state. It can make any normal person autistic, and vice versa.

Based on KabTV’s “The Last Generation” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on July 7, 2015. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Do you like nature? Why?“

I really love nature, especially the inanimate and vegetative. I like to walk in the mountains, fields and forests. When I walk in such places, I feel a sense of goodness, pleasantness and calm.

I perceive nature as divine harmony. In our world, however, we cripple nature’s animate and vegetative levels. But in principle, we can still see harmony, agreement, complementarity and reciprocity throughout nature. Such phenomena bring about corresponding feelings in a Kabbalist.

The wisdom of Kabbalah highlights nature’s harmony and describes how we should aim for the same harmony in human connections. By achieving harmonious connections among us all on the human level, we then balance with nature and come to experience the full harmony and peace that exists in nature.

Based on KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Drug of a Kabbalist” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laiman on September 3, 2011. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Which is more important between praying and working?“

There is a parable about a fisherman who was transporting a passenger by boat. The passenger urged the fisherman, “Hurry up, I’m late for work!” Then the man noticed that one of his oars had the word “pray” written on it, while the other had “work.” Curious, he asked, “What is that for?”

“To remind us,” replied the fisherman, “not to forget the importance of both prayer and work.”

“It is clear to everyone that work is necessary, but prayer seems unnecessary. Why waste time on prayer?” the man persisted.

“It may seem unnecessary, but it’s not,” the fisherman replied calmly. He then pulled out the oar with the word “pray” and started rowing with only one oar. As a result, the boat just spun in circles.

This parable shows us that not everything depends on us, and there is always room for prayer. At the same time, if the fisherman had pulled out the oar that said “work,” the boat would also spin in place. Without work, there is no progress. Praying alone is not enough.

Most importantly, we should direct ourselves in accordance with the development of nature and humanity. Advancing according to the laws of nature means doing everything in our power and leaving the rest to the Creator. In Hebrew it says, “HaShem Igmor BeAdi,” meaning “the Creator will finish for me.” That is, we do all that we can, and the Creator completes the rest for us.

That does not mean just praying to the Creator when we hit a dead end or terrible suffering. It means accepting the Creator as the force of nature that determines everything, and trying to resemble that force.

It is constant movement: we exert effort, but we know that the Creator will finish the work for us. We can then advance correctly, i.e., in a way that brings us closer to the Creator. We move ahead using both oars and pray that they complement each other.

Based on KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” on May 15, 2023. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Photo by jean wimmerlin on Unsplash.

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “How can we live our lives with happiness?“

In our corporeal lives, we come into contact with various pleasures, but we remain unhappy because the moments of pleasure instantly disappear. They are temporary because the contact with a pleasure in order to receive it for self-benefit alone cannot sustain itself for longer than a moment.

At the end of all such moments is death, hopelessness and disappearance. Due to the limited nature by which we encounter pleasures, we thus have no happiness in our lives. It is our world’s inherent flaw.

Happiness comes about when we make contact with a dream, one that is eternal and perfect.

Therefore, having happiness in our lives means we need to attain eternity and perfection.

How can we attain eternity and perfection? It is by rising from this world—a level of perception where we constantly try to enjoy for self-benefit alone—into the spiritual world—a level of perception where we enjoy through a new sense of bestowal upon others and nature.

Even when we rise one degree into the spiritual world, and we find how it is still an incomplete state, we nonetheless then understand that we have made a very significant leap into a spiritual perception of reality. We then acquire much clearer direction to our lives, different ideas about the world, the universe and existence, and the understanding that we are dealing with eternity, perfection, infinite fulfillment and infinite knowledge. We then feel that whatever we want, we will be able to obtain.

Based on KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Happiness” on January 18, 2011. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What defines our current times?“

We are in a new transitional era.

Over the generations, the human ego—the desire to enjoy at the expense of others and nature—developed to a point where we can no longer satisfy ourselves, and we are reaching a state of helplessness in continuing to try and fulfill ourselves by the same egoistic means.

We experience more problems and crises on all scales than ever before, with rising depression, loneliness, anxiety, stress, mental health problems, drug abuse, divorce rates and suicide rates, to name a few.

Our past egoistic modus operandi is clashing with a new globally interconnected and interdependent world, and we find that everything we have done over the millennia fails to work in satisfying us today. It has reached a saturation. Likewise, we do not know how to progress from here.

Of course, we still have people claiming that we can solve today’s problems through money, power or various other scientific or technological means. However, we will see how no such proposed solutions will not help us, because they fail to deal with the core problem: that we ourselves need to change. In other words, our egoistic connections between us—person to person, group to group and nation to nation—need an upgrade to altruistic ones, where we can experience our relations in harmony, peace and happiness.

Since the human ego meeting the globally-interconnected and interdependent world surfaces increasing problems, it is precisely that point of human connection that we have to fix.

We discover how we are tightly connected, but we continue relating to such a state egoistically, in terms of “What will I get out of this?” As such, we feel our increasing connection as an increasing burden.

As humans, we are the highest of nature’s many elements, and as such, our civilization has to find some kind of a solution in realizing our connections positively. By doing so, we will solve every problem, and without a solution that connects us all together harmoniously, we will solve nothing.

We can liken humanity to a single organism, with each of us as its cells. When cells consider their self-benefit at the expense of the other cells, the organism collapses. We thus suddenly discover that humanity acts like disconnected and discordant parts of an organism. Now the question is: How do we positively connect? What is the method that can bring us together in harmony?

Connection-enriching learning should be our primary engagement today in order for us to optimally realize our current transitional era. The time has come for humanity’s elevation to a higher level of consciousness, for us all to feel like one big global family. We have to open our minds and hearts to such a perception.

If we reach positive connections among each other, transcending our egos, sharing the pain of others and willingly turning ourselves into a means for fulfilling them, we then discover the divine quality of love and bestowal enter our lives, and it guides us to life’s highest state.

Based on the talk “Make a Better Person of Yourself by Connecting With Others” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Neale Donald Walsch. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “The 2023 NA Annual KabU Retreat“

Hello to all of you who find interest in the wisdom of Kabbalah and wish to know what this wisdom is really about, and what it guides a person to achieve.

I highly recommend not to miss the upcoming opportunity at the 2023 NA Annual KabU Retreat to connect with others who started studying the wisdom of Kabbalah.

You have a truly unique opportunity to come together and find in that connection all the answers to every possible question that a person may have.

So I wish you the best of luck in discovering all the secrets of nature, and the secrets of your destiny and purpose.

Good luck.

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What is a spiritual experience?“

Say you woke up in the dark. You understand, know and feel nothing at all.

You then slowly go about your morning routine, leave your home, and head out onto the street and into the world.

You flip through the news, listen to the radio and talk to people.

By doing so, you gradually enter the world you live in, moving away from sleep.

It is similar to when we enter the spiritual world: we receive information, sensations, interactions and everything that exists in that world.

We feel an immense amount of energy and information, the present, past and future, and how all parts of the vast spiritual system act in a harmonious unison.

We incorporate into such a system as much as we can, with our mind and soul, and the system tunes us into it.

We, as small elements of a humongous system, wish to incorporate into it, and it affects us, turning us into its integral parts.

Based on KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Self-Examination“ with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on September 13, 2011. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Does an atom contain every information in the universe?“

There is a principle in the wisdom of Kabbalah that the individual and general are equal. It means that the tiniest individual particle contains the information of the whole system of which it is a part.

This principle of similarity of individual and general extends from us all emerging from a single small point.

In the creation of our universe, we underwent a process of cascading through upper worlds into our world, and our world or universe was also formed out of a tiny point.

Such a principle extends to every level of existence: a tiny point descends, and then with the help of the matter that forms in this point, it becomes a large and expansive system. The next successive level then deploys the whole system again from its final lowest point. This process continues through five such descents, called “five worlds” in the wisdom of Kabbalah.

Accordingly, our universe emerged from a small point by the force of the so-called Big Bang. There was no massive explosion at this juncture, but rather a tiny spark of spiritual energy broke through into the material level from the highest spiritual level. Since the spark was spiritual, i.e., hosting an eternal bestowing force, then this spark was sufficient to create all matter, energy and information that fills our universe today.

Based on KabTV’s “Close-Up. Prophet” on November 23, 2011. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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