A question I received: What will happen in human society when people reach the minimal level of existence in spirituality, which is bestowal for the sake of bestowal? How will they begin to think about and feel each other? What will change in such a world?
My Answer: I believe that we can already see changes in the world now. The world crisis is beginning to force us to reject the overindulgences and it shows us that it is much more comfortable to be content with a middle class level of existence. The craving for excessive overindulgences is fading, as evidenced in young people over the past few dozen years.
Humanity is beginning to reveal more qualitative needs. Instead of gold they need honor, instead of honor – power, instead of power – the meaning of life, the realization of the fact that we can find satisfaction only in our connections with other human beings. Overindulgences don’t give us this satisfaction.
Life itself teaches people, and economic power will bring nothing but disappointment. People are seeing that all of this comes and goes. After all, mankind’s development throughout history is like swimming in some turbulent ocean of the future, where huge waves thrust some countries upward while throwing others into an abyss. Everything changes so quickly: America falls while China rises.
People see that power comes and goes and great civilizations collapse – Babylon is replaced by the Roman Empire, then by the Greek Empire; countries rise and fall. On its own this does not teach anyone anything, since people do not learn from the past. However, the desires (Reshimot) are renewed, and they develop us so that we come to demand new qualitative fulfillment and perceive new needs.
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