There is a special force in our unity. When we unite above self from the state “me” to “we,” we reveal a new force in nature; it is called the “wisdom of the crowd.” The integrality is the one who gives it to us.

Even more, this force is above all other forces. We can correct all problems of our world with its help in our life, health, family relations, and security, and can calm down people and nations, and correct the ecology.

This force exists in nature; there is nothing supernatural about it. It is above our ordinary, egoistic nature, but generally speaking it is not supernatural. We approach it realistically.

Let’s begin to connect with one another, help one another to rise, and we will sense how it hovers above us. If we begin to act this way, we will suddenly see that we can correct everything.

In today’s world there is a huge number of “ticking bombs.” What is happening with oil in the Atlantic? What is happening inside the ocean with pollution? What is happening in the atmosphere around us? We live while sitting on “ticking bombs” not knowing when they will explode.

Let’s begin to gradually balance it all out, calm down, and decrease this pace and this tension. We do not have any other choice. After all, it is possible to balance it. See how simple it is. When we connect with one another, we reveal the force that is above us.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Making Good Use of Others” 9/3/13

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The state of Lo Lishma is not ordinary earthly egoism. To be in Lo Lishma means to try to be in Lishma, to perform actions of bestowal, and to reveal that for now you are doing them for yourself.

The time when I make efforts to rise above my egoism and achieve bestowal but I am not yet capable of it is called the period of Lo Lishma.

Question: It is probably not enough to turn your nature from Lo Lishma to Lishma only once?

Answer: Of course, this does not happen all at once. There are 125 degrees each of which is divided into many more states. Baal HaSulam said that we do not understand how high the state of Lo Lishma is. It is even higher than our idea of the state of Lishma.

After all, the true Lo Lishma means that I am trying with all my might to make a bestowing act, and in the end, it is revealed to me that I still acted for the sake of my desire to receive, my egoistic benefit.

Question: Is there such a structure or environment where one could enter in order to make such a turn in a compulsory way?

Answer: Yes, this is the role of the group.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/23/14, Shamati #8 “What Is the Difference Between a Side of Kedusha and a Shade of Sitra Achra”

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Comment: You talk about the unity of all mankind and love for one’s neighbor all the time.

My Response: This is the most important thing.

Question: But who feels it and understands it in the correct form?

Answer: It is useful for everyone to strive for this.

And the souls are absolutely not felt by us. There are so many misconceptions, and therefore it is impossible to talk much about it. This will confuse people and give them the wrong understanding of where they exist, for what, in the name of what.

But if these people become Kabbalists themselves, then, to the degree they reach, they will see, feel, and understand all this. Good luck to them.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/9/22

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Question: Why is a person’s life so short from the point of view of spiritual development? He can go through all the corrections in one lifetime, right?

Answer: No, he can’t. He has to change himself. And to die in a relatively uncomfortable state, even with torment. This is necessary for his correction

Question: Are you talking about any person?

Answer: Yes, about anyone.

We don’t understand this system at all. We think that if a person is a Kabbalist, then he has patronage in the spiritual world, he himself makes orders. No. This is the system in which you exist, the scheme where you are a small element. And even if you generate and define a lot, you are still an element of the system.

Question: Why is this change necessary? Why do I need to restart in a new body?

Answer: A person needs rebirth in order to start working under new initial conditions, at a new level. You cannot, even as a Kabbalist, move from one level to another without changing the external adapter. You have to return to another reified animal state.

But how can one return, is it necessary to return? This is a very complex system. We are not talking about the return of the animal body, it can absolutely completely rot. All this worship of the dead, respect for the dead, these are all anachronisms. In fact, it has absolutely nothing to do with the spiritual.

We don’t understand what it means to live in this world and in another parallel world at the same time. We don’t understand what it means to see the system of governance of our world.

We have no idea what it means to exist in the form of thought, energy, and spirit not clothed in a body, that is, in some huge system where you and the system are one common whole. And you don’t have one separate thing, you merge with this system, as if you don’t exist. We don’t have the words to explain it.

But we don’t need that. What for? It won’t help us, it will only confuse us. A person is told only what can help him realize himself quickly. Whoever wants to do this seriously, let him engage in it and attain it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. See How to Die” 9/7/13

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Baal HaSulam “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 2, Part 6, Item 1

Writings of Baal HaSulam “Peace in the World”

Selected Highlights

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Why do we distract ourselves?“

The question about the meaning of our lives constantly lurks underneath everything we do in life, and we distract ourselves in myriad ways in order to avoid this very question.

Around a century ago and earlier, we had much clearer lives. We knew that we had our homes, our parents, our villages and our towns. Our spouse was most often someone nearby, and we knew that our children would grow up where we lived. In general, our lives were clear, well defined and simple, almost animal-like. We did not encounter much uncertainty or insecurity.

Today, on a psychological level, we are torn apart with questions about the universe, life, our own psychology and behavior. Our lives have become turbulent, filled with uncertainty and insecurity, and inner turmoil is running rampant.

Our era is forcing us to understand what we never encountered in the past: the overall picture of the world. And we will find no rest until we realize, understand, connect with, and perhaps even control the whole picture of the world at least to some extent.

Since we avoid facing the question about the meaning of our lives head on—”Why are we alive?” “What are we doing here?”—due to the uncertainty and insecurity it makes us feel, then we do anything possible to distract ourselves from it and its connected negative sensations.

Distractions take on a number of forms: drugs, work, shopping, food, art, music, entertainment, browsing the Internet, going on vacations, traveling the world, sports, engaging in hobbies of all kinds, building and making things—whatever we can possibly do in order to escape from the prison of our world.

Everything we do acts as an antidepressant of sorts. It is all an escape from life’s most fundamental question: “What is the meaning of life?” If we have no answer to it, then we engage in anything we deem as important. Distractions save us from this question and its connected uncertainty and insecurity.

Nevertheless, however, the question about the meaning of life haunts us. It smacks us from behind in all kinds of situations until we will wake up and start actively inquiring about it. Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) writes about this process in the beginning of his article “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot.”

Indeed, if we set our hearts to answer but one very famous question, I am certain that all these questions and doubts will vanish from the horizon, and you will look unto their place to find them gone. This indignant question is a question that the whole world asks, namely, “What is the meaning of life?” In other words, these numbered years of our life that cost us so heavily, and the numerous pains and torments that we suffer for them, to complete them to the fullest, who is it who enjoys them? Or even more precisely, whom do I delight?

It is indeed true that historians have grown weary contemplating it, and particularly in our generation. No one even wishes to consider it. Yet the question stands as bitterly and as vehemently as ever. Sometimes it meets us uninvited, pecks at our minds and humiliates us to the ground before we find the famous ploy of flowing mindlessly in the currents of life as always.

While we might be able to temporarily distract ourselves from asking about the meaning of our lives, that very question will continually chase us until we start facing it. We will have to figure it out. It is not in vain that it surfaces in every person. When it arises, we either successfully forget about it through the many distractions that we have created for ourselves, or we face it and seek its resolution.

If we start facing the question about the meaning of life, questioning why we do, think and feel everything that we do, think and feel, then every moment of our lives will become filled with a higher meaning.

Based on the video “Why We Distract Ourselves from Life’s Most Important Question” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Semion Vinokur. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Question: There is a well known parable regarding judgment taking place above—to hell or to heaven. The famous preacher’s turn comes; he is calm, and suddenly he is sent to hell. He asks, “Why to hell?! Right before me, a reckless driver was sent to heaven.” He is told: “What were you thinking? Everyone was asleep at your sermons. Meanwhile, when he was driving people, everyone was praying.”

How should we relate to this? Should we be led to prayer while we are alive; how should this happen?

Answer: We are being led. If we strive to reach a connection with the Creator, then all sorts of obstacles and conditions are put to us, and we involuntarily see that we cannot fulfill these conditions in any way, only if we get serious help from above.

Question: Does this mean that if we strive to connect with the Creator, then we can be grateful for all these things and obstacles?

Answer: For the stick.

Question: You keep saying, “Kiss the stick that beats you.” Then we kiss it? Otherwise what happens?

Answer: Otherwise we move along with our egoism, the way a fish swims, in such twisty ways.

Question: How should we treat everything that leads us, but is not yet directed, to the goal of creation, to prayer?

Answer: We have to push each other. We have to give an example. We need to shake things up a bit.

Question: How can I, an ordinary person who does not strive for the goal of connection with the Creator, someone who strives to live calmly and simply on our earth, also relate those misfortunes and troubles as things that should lead me to prayer?

Answer: Naturally a person does not want suffering, prayer, or anything.

Question: And how should I relate to this? Should I run away from them?

Answer: Of course. It’s best to run away from them and that’s what everyone does.

Question: This means I can run away if I’m not striving for anything, but I just want to live this life well on this earth?

Answer: In this case, “There is no need for suffering, and there is no need for rewards.”

Question: And what is the advice to such people?

Answer: The advice to such people is to try to live in peace, or even lower, quieter, and calmer. Try to go through life like this.

Question: Is this in order for the waves to pass over us?

Answer: Yes. But this is fate. There are some people who want it; there are those who disagree with this and those who disagree and yet with a couple of blows, they then agree.

Question: So one way or another, these blows bring a person down if he is here and wants to live his life here?

Answer: It depends on the root of the soul.

Question: And what is your advice to those who strive for the Creator and for connection?

Answer: For them, the most important thing is to get closer to the Creator, and it doesn’t matter in what way: either through getting a couple of blows on the way or any other way.

Question: So, one way or another they will and should treat these blows as help?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is it correct to say that this parable is intended more for those who are directed to the Creator?

Answer: There is always suffering, but if they are not critical and are instead ordinary everyday sufferings, etc., then they are always good.

Question: Is this the way to relate to them?!

Answer: Yes.

Question: What happens if I start to treat them this way?

Answer: I mean the suffering that does not distract from building a right life or a right connection with others and with the Creator. If there are too many of them, then this is a different sort of suffering.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/4/22

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Comment: Surely you always have a certain position that you have to soften and adapt to the public.

My Response: Just like with children to whom you only say what they can understand and explain with language, gestures, facial expressions: “This is how this works, and this is how that is. Let us see together. See how it is connected. If I click here, what is happening there?” And so on.

That is, you must come closer to them. Of course, you have a huge supply of what to tell them for the next, say, five years, but you work gradually. At the same time, love for them and recognition of one single space and mass when you connect with them controls you and does not allow you to make a mistake.

Comment: But sometimes, when raising a child, they say: “Let him fall, prick himself, burn himself, do not tamper with him.”

My Response: Yes, it happens. But still, you do it with the knowledge that it will teach him even if he is harmed to some small degree. But he will remember this lesson and will gain in the future so that later he does not get into a situation where instead of a small burn there is a huge explosion.

You consciously allow negative feelings from certain circumstances imprinted in your child’s mind if there is no other possibility. Naturally, this is how we learn. The same is true in our spiritual accumulation of all kinds of events, qualities, and dependencies.

Comment: But many also have this position: “We will talk to them when they are hit on the head. Then they will understand us more.”

My Response: No! This attitude is not out of love. When I love my child, I want to protect him in advance, and if I give him the opportunity to feel something, then this is controlled by me, it is within the framework of his upbringing. I do not leave him as if I had left him somewhere in the forest and let him educate himself: if he crawls home, good and if not, then not. This is an unreasonable approach.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Is it Always Necessary to Tell the Truth?” 9/5/13

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Comment: When we have problems, you recommend contacting a specialist, such as a lawyer and so on.

My Response: Yes, on the corporeal level we must use the tools of our world and at the same time make spiritual corrections.

Therefore, if someone attacks me, and I have some legal opportunity to oppose him, then I definitely do it through a lawyer. This is how it will be in the future as well. This is work at the level of our world.

Comment: But there are countries where problems are solved in a completely different way, not by legal methods, but by force.

My Response: If these are legal forceful methods, then yes, and if they are not the legal ones, then no. If we scare people, then this is no longer a correction.

Question: Why is this correction if we act through lawyers?

Answer: Because through lawyers, you teach a person to bite his tongue, treat others differently, and force him to understand his mistakes.

At least, this is how we should act and not have a physical clash. We cannot afford it, this is not the spirit of our organization.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Solve Problems?” 9/18/13

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