Now You Can Find a Perfect Environment and Never Feel Pain Again

August 17, 2014 at 7:30 pm · Filed under Quotes

Dr. Michael Laitman: All the changes in us can only happen through the environment, and we can see that. In whatever environment we grow, we arise as a result of the environment. So we can’t really come complaining to a person about why they do this or that, maybe bad things, but we really have to look at where they came from.

The main problem of humanity today is education. If we want to see happy people and a better world, we first and foremost have to see about how to build the right environment that will affect people positively. The right environment is the media, the education system in kindergartens, schools, universities, but especially the media.

Question: Dr. Laitman, what happens if we don’t start changing the environment, in your view?

Dr. Laitman: We are just going to suffer blows, serious blows. Until they nevertheless, force us to open our hearts and minds to what’s happening in the world. We have to be aware of nature’s changes.

Now we are in a situation that the use of the ordinary ego, the way that we are used to – I want to use you and you will use someone else, etc., etc., and the survival of the fittest and all that – these things are over now. If we are talking about the integral law, the integral system, we have different laws working there.

Unity works there, bonding, participation, consideration between parties in a single system; and not who is stronger, suppressing the weaker. In our bodies there is no such thing. If humanity is like a single organism, you have different rules playing: rules of consideration, unity, and bonding. We need to teach the new generation about these laws. Read More: Dr. Michael Laitman Interview with John St. Augustine »

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If You’re Reading This, You Still Have a Chance to See and Feel the Whole of Humanity as One Family

August 15, 2014 at 7:30 pm · Filed under Quotes

The science of Kabbalah explains that we all exist in a net that binds us together. Because of this, we have to treat each other as if we are in one boat, or like the members of one family. Baal HaSulam writes that the whole world is one family, and we must therefore build harmonious relationships of collaboration among us, instead of our present egoistic relationships.

The general connection among us that has been revealed obliges us to be in agreement with one another. This means that there must be agreement in our actions, thoughts, desires, and everything else. However, no one knows how to make seven billion people interact harmoniously with each other. And yet, the interconnection that is being revealed to us obliges us to accomplish this.

The revelation will continue to happen gradually, one step at a time. No one knows how the next stage will be revealed because this depends on how we realize the current stage. For this reason, Kabbalists propose that the entire society be taught about the law of interaction that is being revealed in the world. This knowledge will enable people to make the right actions. –Dr. Michael Laitman, in “Our Future Depends on What We Do in the Present.”

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How Balance in All Areas of Life Can be Achieved

August 13, 2014 at 7:30 pm · Filed under Quotes

Question: How can one describe balance on the human level, in relationships with the environment?

Answer by Dr. Michael Laitman: We don’t feel a division between us, we belong to a unified community, to one human body; we are connected into one system. And among us we want to arrange for balanced relationships of mutual cooperation.

Ultimately nothing separates us, we are a single whole. We depend upon one another and don’t even feel this dependence, for the answers to all of my requests come at that moment, immediately supplying me with what is missing, and I gladly give to others what they lack.

This is called balance in human society, this is a reciprocal interaction based upon two opposing forces that there are in everyone. One is for all and all are for one. We must reach this. Read More »

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Where Are We Headed?

August 11, 2014 at 7:30 pm · Filed under Quotes

Nature’s plan is to bring all of nature to an integral state, which is the law of development that cannot be nullified. Nature must bring us to a state of becoming equal to it, to turn us into integral members in an integral society, each one by himself and all of us together. So you can’t just get rid of six billion people by putting them on drugs and food rations. Nature will lead them onward. It has to bring man to a state of being equal to it! A person has to become a human being.

This can only happen by balancing all the systems. The different parts of our world, like the still, vegetative, animate, and speaking nature, have to reach a state of balance, which means mutual support, homeostasis.

Bringing a person to the lowest state, however, is not homeostasis. The most important thing is to consciously raise ourselves to the level of a human being that is made of two opposite attributes: an egoistic one and an altruistic one, and operating in mutual cooperation by balancing them. Read More »

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What Is the Essence of a Game?

August 11, 2014 at 7:30 pm · Filed under Quotes

“Our whole life is a game because through games we develop.

Any growth in nature is carried out through play. Even the growth of cells is a game because they aspire to a future state that still doesn’t exist.

Spiritual development, too, is a game.

And as for children, the ‘childish’ games of every child determine the kind of person each of them will be.”

–Dr. Michael Laitman, in Children of Tomorrow

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