October 23, 2024
March 20, 2016 at 5:30 pm · Filed under Quotes
When one considers society’s success equal to one’s own success, it provides correct motivation for everyone.
Our success is motivated and measured by others—we are constantly working to fulfill the goals of our society.
We are usually unaware of this dynamic and attribute all of our accomplishments to ourselves.
Our individual perception isolates us from one another—we are not aware of how we affect the entire system. At the global level, this creates crisis in all realms of life, threatening the very survival of the whole. We must change our perception to consider the success of society to be equal to our own.
This change in perception provides the correct motivation for all individuals, and the survival and prosperity of the whole.
This is the law of success.
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March 16, 2016 at 5:30 pm · Filed under Quotes
We are entering a system in which we are all cogwheels, i.e. we are beginning to make contact with each other.
Our entire world is mutually connected just like cogwheels in a system; none of the cogwheels can turn independently without turning all the other wheels and being turned by them. It’s just like two clutch discs when they touch each other.
The law of development operates in this mechanism. First, the clutch pedal is pressed and the connection between them is still weak–at this point we don’t disturb but rather help one another by spinning but not feeling that we are connected.
With time, cogwheels become more closely connected i.e., the clutch pedal is released and the discs get progressively closer to one another, until they are very tightly connected. This is how all of humanity develops towards mutual cooperation: countries establish connections, international commerce and industry flourish, societies change, the number of different professions grow, and people are becoming increasingly interdependent until they are totally interdependent.
The integral system possesses a remarkable property we can’t comprehend: everyone is just as vital in it as the whole.
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February 3, 2015 at 5:30 pm · Filed under Quotes
The wisdom of Kabbalah is a science that reveals the superior guidance behind the whole of creation
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January 18, 2015 at 5:30 pm · Filed under Quotes
The wisdom of Kabbalah is about the revelation of the Creator to a person here in this world.
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January 14, 2015 at 5:30 pm · Filed under Imagination, Quotes
Dr. Michael Laitman:
Kabbalists have a rule not to talk about anything except what they have actually attained, where attainment means the highest degree of understanding. In other words, until we achieve an absolutely clear realization, until the knowledge passes from the first nine Sefirot into Malchut, it is not called attainment.
Then what is the role of imagination and fantasy? Why are we given these qualities? Without imagination, advancement is impossible, and we see this from regular science. You can use your imagination, but the most important thing is not to take it for something that is really happening. However, without the imagination you would be an animal, not a human being.
Man’s entire merit over animals comes from our ability to feel the first nine Sefirot, to fantasize, and to make conjectures beyond one’s actual perception and attainment. An animal lives only inside Malchut, matter, and it feels only the forms that are clothed into it. We, however, are able to imagine an abstract form and essence, and this allows us to develop further and be called human beings.
Our greatest problems in life come from the fact that we attribute what we desire to actuality and build plans based on fantasies, thereby separating from matter. Kabbalah advises us to fantasize in abstract form about the Upper Level and the future, but then work on ourselves in order to “pull up” our desires and matter to the level of that fantasy. Then the abstract form will clothe into matter; we will change instead of simply mistaking our fantasies for actuality.
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