We need to learn to treat each day as an entire lifetime.
I wake up in the morning as though I am starting from zero. I have been given one life, and that life is today. By the end of the day, I should return to zero, having given everything I could during the time that was given to me.
Tomorrow, if I wake up again, it will be another life.
This approach completely changes a person’s calculation. Instead of constantly asking what I will receive from life, what will happen to me tomorrow, whether I will succeed, or whether I will be happy, I begin the day by setting myself aside.
In a sense, I consider myself already dead.
This does not mean losing the desire to live. On the contrary, it means that I no longer want to spend the day calculating what I can acquire for myself. I need nothing from this day except the opportunity to give everything I have.
For me, as a teacher of students on the spiritual path, this responsibility is especially connected with my students. They obligate me. I feel that I owe them something and have no right simply to leave them as they are. I need to urge them forward, inspire them, awaken them, and give them everything I can. This responsibility gives me the strength and motivation to live the day fully.
But the same principle applies to every person.
You have a family, children, friends, people close to you, and ultimately the entire world. Set yourself aside and ask: What can I give them today?
Then give yourself completely.
Such a life might sound demanding because a person must constantly examine whether they are truly giving themselves to others. There is a certain tension in this: Am I doing everything I can? Am I genuinely living for others rather than returning to calculations about myself?
But this tension is not unhappiness.
It is happiness.
When I stop carrying yesterday with me and stop trying to secure tomorrow for myself, I become free to use what actually exists, which is the present day. I begin with nothing, give everything I can, and leave the outcome in the hands of the Creator.
Then the division of life into “happy times” and “unhappy times” begins to lose its meaning. The measure of a day is no longer how pleasant it was for me, but how completely I was able to give myself.
Wake up as though you have been given an entirely new life.
Ask nothing for yourself from it.
Give everything you can today.
And tomorrow, begin again.
Based on KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on June 3, 2026. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.