What Is the Meaning of Strong Can Survive?

Michael Laitman
2 min readNov 3, 2024

--

The question is, how do we define “strong” in the context of survival? Relevant to our current world’s transformation, strong is one who can overcome their ego — the desire for self-benefit at others’ expense.

Why is overcoming the ego the main strength that we need for survival today?

It is because overcoming the ego lets us connect with nature, and by doing so, we complete nature; we make it whole. We stop resisting nature with behavior it deems intolerable. It is because nature is everywhere. Nature exists in everything and everyone, and likewise, everything and everyone is in nature.

With respect to others around us, we need to be as one system. No single cell can exist on its own. Cells rather require mutual complementarity to sustain the body.

While the strong — those able to overcome their ego — will survive our present evolutionary transition, the weak, on the contrary, will fall. Likewise, “weak” is defined as those who will be unable to overcome their egoistic drives. Such drives will lead people to increasing friction, conflict, suffering, and destruction.

What Do You Need to Survive This Ever-Changing World?

Love of others. We need nothing but a concern about others.

If we head out into our days with a concern about everyone else instead of ourselves, then we have no fears and no limitations. Developing loving and caring attitudes throughout humanity above the intensifying divisive drives will give us what we need to survive — and moreover, to create a new harmonious and peaceful world.

--

--

Michael Laitman

PhD in Philosophy and Kabbalah. MSc in Medical Bio-Cybernetics. Founder and president of Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Education & Research Institute.