Only Our Intention Changes Reality

What is called bestowing for the sake of bestowing, receiving to bestow, receiving in order to receive, bestowing in order to receive? These are the intentions. It is not the act itself. I can receive from someone and be the bestower in this engagement. I can give to someone and in this I actually receive. What difference does the mechanical act achieve?

Only the intentions in man will change, and as a result of this, positive energy will come to the whole world

The correction is the correction of the intention, not the correction of the act. The act itself that I do with my hands does not change, that is why it is written "The world behaves as it is accustomed to." What does this mean? That everything looks the same, only the intention changes, meaning why things are done.

When the intention changes, then the upper light that fills us reigns in this world, and then abundance, calm, eternity and perfection come to the world. But nature itself does not, the glass will remain a glass, the book will remain a book. Only the intentions in man will change, and as a result of this, positive energy will come to the whole world, and all its levels - the still, vegetative and living levels. Even after the Messiah comes.

This means that everyone in this world will correct their intention in order to bestow. Kindergartens and schools will work and everything will be like now. We will certainly need fewer systems like prisons, hospitals, all sorts of things that now we supposedly need to correct the distortion, the left. But only the intention of each and every one will change. You will go out into the street and see the same people, buses, taxis, cars, everything will be the same - only the intention will change. You will go into the grocery store, to the supermarket, you will buy and pay for groceries - everything will be exactly the same.

The intention will change reality. Because of the intention everyone will be in a completely different internal state. Through the material situation, people will experience spirituality to the highest degree, and they will not feel a disadvantage in it. Quite the opposite. Through the objects and actions that are supposedly the furthest from intention, they will feel the other end, the highest, and each floor will be one floor.

And you ask me, when the intention in me changed from the intention to receive to the intention to bestow, and I come to my work in the morning, how do I relate to the boss, how do I relate to work? Of course you have a different attitude, your intention has changed. So you will do them out of the realization that I am not able to do it - not because I am afraid of punishment, and not because I am expecting a reward, but because it no longer corresponds to my intention.

When the intention changes, the person changes. The same actions can remain, but the reason behind them is completely different. You are no longer working for yourself alone; you are beginning to act according to a higher purpose. And that is where the real transformation begins.

(This is an excerpt of Michael Laitman speaking in today's morning lesson)