Question: “The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered “Man! Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”

How can you learn to live so that when you die you have no regrets?

Answer: I think it is about a person striving to be ready to die. That is, I live as I believe I should within my limited capabilities. And when the time comes to die, I will have no regrets.

Question: Is this the formula we need to follow? But do I still invest in every day, in every minute of my life?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What do you call life?

Answer: The connection of a person with the thought of the Creator I call life.

Question: But I do not know the thoughts of the Creator.

Answer: I try to understand and implement what the Creator wants us to know and attain.

Comment: So life is about constantly learning this. And along this path, we have all sorts of ascents and descents.

My Response: It only helps us to unite and attain the depth of the Creator’s wisdom.

Question: Can you say what the main thought of the Creator is?

Answer: The main thought of the Creator is for a person to want to connect with all people, with all of nature, into one single whole, and to reveal the Creator in all of this.

Question: If a person has a feeling and lives with the feeling that they can be immortal, is it good or bad?

Answer: I can imagine what it means to be immortal, but at the same time I can imagine how a person can suffer if the Creator does not allow them to escape from the limitations of the mind, from the tasks that constantly circulate in person’s mind and heart.

Therefore let’s hope we have that choice ahead of us.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 1/1/24

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Question: After the congress, I am constantly in gratitude. But it has divided me in two. Before, I was grateful to the Creator for having good feelings, and now I thank the Creator for being the cause of my feelings. Is this true gratitude?

Answer: This gratitude is already higher than the previous one. Before, you were grateful simply for feeling good. Now you are grateful for feeling good in the Creator’s world. Later, there will be other clarifications.

But you are already gradually separating yourself from the state in which the Creator raises you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/26/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “I Shall Not Die but Live”

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We cannot move forward without blows that must pass over us! The whole problem is in what kind of blows they will be and at what level; will it be on a gross animal, material, sensory, or mental level.

These blows can be small and targeted, that follow one another and accurately correct me like a rocket moving through a tracking system. So-so-so—the pulse system works and leads me forward all the time.

Or these can be big blows that hit me on one cheek, then on the other cheek, and I do not know where to go.

It all depends on the threshold of sensitivity of the evil in me. I can feel it so subtly that I experience a correction a hundred times a minute and move forward in a smooth way without deviating far from the course. So-so-so—around a straight axis that leads me to the goal without deviating for kilometers to the side, and then, boom: “I made a mistake. Get back on course!”—and so on.

Therefore, we must do our best to spread the knowledge of Kabbalah so that people see that they have nothing else in their hands and begin to master it. They must understand that there is no other way out. We need to come to harmony with the world around us.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What to Do in the Moment of a Disaster?“ 1/2/12

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Question: All my fears arise because my desire to receive is not satisfied, and this causes anxiety. But I want to shift my concern to whether I can bring contentment to the Creator and whether I am doing it correctly. What is the prime support for each of us in this transition? Where can we find the strength for it?

Answer: Usually we draw strength from the understanding that there is no other way, that we have friends beside us who think the same and are in the same circumstances. We must overcome these fears, uncertainties, and doubts that knock us off the path to our goal. We must overcome them by all means.

Question: Is it possible to race ahead of these obstacles and awaken love?

Answer: No, you must understand that all these obstacles are designed to correct us. Without feeling them, we cannot correct them, and the world will not come to a sense of balance.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning Fear that Sometimes Comes Upon a Person”

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The ten (a Kabbalistic group of ten friends) can be perceived as a field in which we are obliged to do certain work.

If our work is correct, our future world will grow in this field, the correct, kind one. In this field we will find the Creator who blessed this field. In this way, we can move forward on the spiritual path.

We are looking for the Creator in our life, where is He? We want to reveal Him, turn to Him, meet with Him, and advance in our lives by following Him or being next to Him, no matter how, as long as we are together with the Creator. It is like a little child who does not know where to go, but he sticks to his mother right next to her and walks with her.

If a person connects with friends and completes the full ten, this group becomes a holy society where one eventually finds the Creator. This whole group is like a field blessed by the Creator, and together with them, one can move toward the goal of creation.

The Creator gave you this group so you could achieve the goal of creation. But this field may remain bare and unseeded or even overgrown with weeds and thorns without yielding useful fruits.

Or maybe, on the contrary, you connect with your friends, strengthen them, and wish that a good harvest would grow in this field, which could provide the whole world, all of humanity. Then this field that is overgrown with thistles will turn into a fertile arable land blessed by the Creator.

To do this, we need to unite and thank the Creator for caring for us and leading us to the end of correction. And the more we unite and become closer to each other internally, the more we will strengthen our connection, called the field, until we realize that we need the blessing of the Creator. And without the help of the Creator, not a single seed will sprout from the earth.

Therefore, all our work consists of connecting and turning to the Creator, asking Him to help us work properly in this field, and to grow such a harvest that can saturate and fill all creations.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/17/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Field that the Lord Has Blessed”

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Question: Can a person get rid of fear for him or herself?

Answer: Maybe, if the person is in fear for others.

Question: What if one feels no physical fear, but only awe of the Creator? Is this fine?

Answer: Yes, that is a good kind of fear.

Question: How do you overcome the fear of losing your group and friends?

Answer: By asking, only by asking. We have no other appeal to the Creator other than prayer. Therefore, ask.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning Fear that Sometimes Comes Upon a Person”

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Question: Do we receive blows in life because we try to come closer to the Creator without having qualities similar to His?

Answer: Generally yes, but these blows teach us, heal us, and elevate us.

Question: How do we understand which obstacles we need to overcome and which are sent to us to change direction to the right one? Or do we need to overcome everything?

Answer: No, not everything. We need to understand what we need to overcome and what we do not. We must look at everything we receive because it comes only from the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/26/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “I Shall Not Die but Live”

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Question: What helps one constantly reveal and develop the true, strong, pure desire to be like the Creator at each degree?

Answer: You should feel each degree from all sides and relate it to the Creator and understand that He is revealed in you through all kinds of properties.

The Creator Himself will help you clearly identify your states. The point is that the light He sends you breaks you into several parts. Therefore, one relative to the other gives you a sensation of certain properties and characteristics, and you thus move forward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/26/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “I Shall Not Die but Live”

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