YouSaid · the spoken record

Michael Berg

lines on the record: 86
first: 2023-08-20
most recent: 2023-08-20
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

Every line below is reproduced as it was said and linked to the record it came from. Nothing here is summarised or generated. Directory · Search · Corrections

“Absolutely. And it relates to something you mentioned before, and it's a quote again from the Talmud that says, who was a wealthy man, the one who is appreciative of what he or she has, right? That is happy with what they have. And the reality is that it is, you know, again, I often like to talk that, you know, sort of the line between fact or reality and spirituality. We know that, and there's studies on this, that the dollar amount that a person has in their bank account does not correlate with happiness. That is just a fact, right? Studied fact. So if you understand that each one of us can be wealthy, regardless of the amount of money that we have or the amount of acquisitions that we have, the only differentiator, the only differentiator is appreciation. You know, I often use the story of the guy who gets the call from the doctor.”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Unfortunately, I've met people like this, and I'm sure you have who have a lot of money but are not able to extract great pleasure from it, or at least not the pleasure you would expect them to be able to extract from it. And that is because of these two things. They have taken ownership on it and therefore necessarily will lose appreciation for it.”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, and usually you play with it all day and you get sort of bored with it. But as a child, often you wake up the next day, it's almost like it's brand new to you and you enjoy it. That's the way our life is meant to be, whether it's our relationship to money, whether it's relationship to the physical things that we enjoy, never ownership, only use for undetermined amounts of time. And therefore great appreciation. If you're able to maintain those two things, which is the thought that this blessing, this gift, this money is not mine, but it's connected to a higher source. And second, therefore, I have great appreciation and a growing appreciation for it every day that I wake up, then that is able to maintain the energy within the money. And therefore, the pleasure that we receive. And one more point to this, there's a verse from King Solomon. He says that you will find often wealth kept with the individual for their detriment, that people, there are a lot of people.”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But the only way to truly maintain and to continuously be able to receive great pleasure from the money and acquisitions that we take in this life is by remembering it is not mine. That, as we said, keeps it connected to its source, which allows the life force, that energy to continue to flow through it because money is energy, which is an important topic. Maybe we'll talk about it a little bit later, but it allows it to continue to be in that flow of energy, and therefore I'm able to extract from it more pleasure. And secondly, which is very important, it allows me to maintain appreciation and the understanding that this thing that I have, because it's not mine, I have, wow, I woke up this morning and this million dollar is still in my bank account or this beautiful car that I enjoy is still in my driveway. You know, I'm sure most of us remember, and I have many clear memories of this as a child, when you get a new toy.”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Back to what we were talking about before as it pertains to well. The second and unfortunately I would say most people, it's a forkless question people to ask themselves, how do I view my relationship with that which I acquire? Be it money, be it a car, be it a house, has my ego convinced me that it is mine? Well, that is the first step to its dying. Now, death can come in many ways.”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so Hugh writes the fact that marriage is the most silliest thing that people do because the fact and the figures tell us it's a terrible choice, right? People still continue to make it. But I think more importantly, let's go to the root of that. Why is that the reality where people have this hope for love, for relationships that almost always dies? It almost always dies. And one of the reasons is because when you marry somebody, you believe that they are yours. Not remembering nobody certainly, but nothing really is ever mine. And therefore, I have to be earning it every single day. That appreciation can only truly stem if you would truly believe that you do not own it. And if you understand that you do not own this great marriage, not on day one and not in year 10 and not in year 25, then you have the possibility, or I would say the ability to have the love in your relationship grow.”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Force, and therefore we continue to receive pleasure from them. Because, again, why we know this again relationships is probably the most obvious case. And I always use this example because it's sadly true. Almost everybody on the first date is very excited. Almost everybody on their wedding date is very excited. The majority of the world by year five is not as excited, certainly. And by year 10, most people are unhappy. Let's look at that continuum. I'm sure you know Dangla Cutterman.”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That energy that is sustaining, that is flowing all the time. If we, our ego convinces us, no, this is my money, this is my wisdom, that thought separates it from its source. And what happens to a flower when you cut it off from the ground? It begins to die. Now, it might take a day or a week or a month, but it begins to die. So if we understand that the thought of ownership actually cuts away our blessing, be it our money, be it anything that we have away from its source, it will of course lose its life force and therefore the pledge that we're able to extract from it. So the reason, many reasons, but one of the reasons it's so important to live with a thought, with a consciousness of not ownership, but again, having it for a certain amount of time, an undetermined amount of time, it first of all spiritually allows our blessings to be connected to their source, which allows them to be able to be receiving life.”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Wealth, a big part of that, of course, will have to be its purpose is to share, but it's true about wealth and even our children Some of the greatest pain that we ever feel stands from the ego convincing us that this thing is mine. And then when anybody tries to either take it away from me or succeeds in taking it away from me, that causes great pain because this thing that was mine has now been taken away from me. If you view it as, no, this was never mine. This was never mine. It was given to me. Maybe it was given to me for a day. Maybe it was given to me for a week. First, you have greater enjoyment of it because your appreciation for it never wanes. And again, there's a lot. I don't want to go to this point of appreciation, which I think is foundational to this idea. There's a teaching that says that when we take anything, money, gifts, wisdom as our own, what we're actually doing, and this might be a deep spiritual concept, we're separating it from its source, what we call the light of the creator.”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It might take a year or five years, 50 years. This body within which we live to think that it is mine is ridiculous because we all know that unfortunately at a certain point it no longer continues to serve us. That is all to say that the false view of that which we have acquired, which the ego wants us to take ownership of, which this is my wisdom, this is my money, this is my car, this is my child. That thought which comes from the ego and is false it is objectively not physically true and more importantly certainly not spiritually true. All we are given are gifts for purpose, either to enjoy, to partake, to share them. When we really and truly view everything that we have as not ours, but as given to us, again, to take care of if it's a tremendous amount of mathematical matter”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, it's very important. So, first of all, it's a little controversial, but the reality of course is that if you think about it for more than five seconds, you realize that it's true, right? No wealthy man ever takes his money into the grave. I mean, he might be able to physically take it. It does him or her no good. Objectively, philosophically, the money is not ours. That's just a factual reality. But more importantly, If we understand that everything is energy and more importantly, that none of what we have is actually ours. And this is true, again, not just of money, it's true of wisdom. How many wise people have a stroke, and in a second, all that wisdom, it seems to no longer exist. How many times people have a car that they love and something happens, right? So the times that people think that they own something and then it goes away is 99% of the time.”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's funny, you know, when I was growing up, if you asked me what my dream life would be, it was always the same dream to go to the north of Israel, the city of Kabulus, and be married with my kids, but just study all day and all night, not engage with any person ever, which is the exact opposite of what my life is today, but because that is the truth. The truth is that we are not in this world to run away from it. We're in this world to be engaged in the mud of it and to yet extract great light and enjoyment fulfillment from it.”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Then he should spend time and effort on his spiritual work. And then he will become wealthy. But then they ask the question a lot of people did that, and that didn't work. So they come to the conclusion, one without the other will not work. You need both. You need the spiritual work that opens up the channels and you need the intense physical work that allows that flow to manifest in our world. So by the way, that is a beautiful quote from John Pepplin that I actually want to start using, if you don't mind in my sharings with people, but I think that is both fundamentally true, but also I think for all people who are struggling one way or the other, I think it's also beginning of an answer of what we can do to start opening up those channels of light.”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Spiritual, the efforts that we put into the physical work will always be limited if our spiritual connection to that flow of energy of abundance is limited. And all we have to do is look at our week and our day and our life and ask the question, how many actions do I do that are actually clogging, that flow of energy, that flow of abundance? And then that will answer the question of why am I putting all this effort in at work and still things don't seem to be flowing because it doesn't seem to be occurring. It's actually a section in the Talmud that my father's teacher would often share with him. And they ask the question. They literally ask the question, what should a person do to become wealthy? So first they answer, he should invest all his time and effort and work in the physical world. Then they ask the question, tell me this is the way the Talmud works, question and answer. But many people have done that and they did not become wealthy. So then they answer, well,”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Coming down into your lineup, and you literally put sandbags below them. Of course, the flow is going to stop. God isn't angry with you, but you just did an action. Like if you went to the plumber and said, I don't know why there's no water running in my house. And he comes to your house and says, did you close, shut off the major valve that brings the water into your house? You say, yes, I still don't understand why there's no water. Well, like you're an idiot. Of course, if you shut off the main valve that brings in water into your house, you're not going to have water in the rest of your house. So this is the spiritual view. Again, God is not a punishing God, what we call the light of the creator is a flow of energy. And when we do things that put, that open up those channels by being charitable, for example, by giving tithing, for example, by being kind, for example, then we open up those channels when we behave in negative ways. We close those channels. So all that to say that, of course, if you had to understand, of course you need both the physical and the spiritual, but that without this.”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And therefore, the understanding is that the most important work, of course, we have to do the physical work to attain wealth and success. But the most important work is the spiritual work. Because if my connection to that energy of abundance, what we call the light of the Creator, is not flowing, then it doesn't matter that much all the great input of work that I will do in the physical because the spiritual is blocked, which is the source of the blessings. What causes blockages? Well, again, to use general terms, of course, when we act selfishly, when we act with ego, when we act angry, when we speak negative words, there's a whole list of actions. I think many of us even intuitively know are not the right thing to do, but the understanding is, and this is where the science, I would say, of Kamala becomes so important, is that it's not that God, again, it's angry at you and therefore you're not going to have. No, it's that imagine if there are channels, you know,”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's a few thoughts, but I'll start with that one, which is that if we understand that naturally, the natural state of being should be an individual with abundance. Then the question is what stops that? And we capitalistically, spiritually, we would say that when the individual is not growing in the way that he or she is meant to be growing, not changing in the positive ways that he or she is meant to be changing, when that creates what we call a blockage in that flow of energy to the individual.”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A foundational understanding of the Kabbalistic view is that not only is it not the against spirituality to attain the desire and the attainment of wealth. As a matter of fact, often it's a prerequisite. It is certainly foundational to why we are in this world. And as a matter of fact, if you think about judgment, one of the things”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Why we're in this world, and which leads me to the third chord one of my favorite quotes from the Talmud says that when a person leaves this world and I was actually talking about this to a student the other day, he was asking me, should I limit sort of, he's somebody who has, you know, money to spend and to enjoy life? Should I limit, I sometimes feel he says, I'm spending too much time on spending money on things that I enjoy. I said, the opposite is true. It says in the Talmud that when a person leaves this world, one of the questions that he's asked in judgment is, is there anything that you could have enjoyed in this world that you did not enjoy? And the Creator would then be upset because the only reason why I put all of this in front of you is for you to increase in pleasure, in joy, in abundance, in wealth all the time. Now, of course, as we said before, there are the right way to attain wealth, the right way to use wealth, and so on. But as a”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Of goodness that both my view and what I would call the creator's view of the way my life and your life and every single person in this world's life is meant to be is a life that is a constant growing abundance and goodness. That's life as it should be. That's life as what I would say the creator intends it to be. But then of course there should be no limit on any aspect of my life. My love should be limitless that I receive and give, my wealth should be limitless that I receive and give my wisdom should be limitless that I receive and give. So not only is it not a negative, it is actually along the line of the singular purpose why in this world. Now of course money can be used in negative ways, chiefing after money can be done in negative ways of course that's a whole other conversation but foundationally foundationally it is the understanding that wealth and goodness are the reason”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Money is energy as well. And when the capitalists say that Moses could not have been Moses had he not been wealthy, it means because it is a connection to that energy as well that allowed him to gain greater wisdom. So that's where I would begin the Kabbalistic view of wealth, which is often actually a necessary prerequisite to attaining wisdom, which I think is a little bit, I would say, a little bit controversial, but it's the teachings that have been around for thousands of years. Number one, number two, the capitalistic view, and the word Kabbalah, as I said before, means to receive, is that the singular purpose we exist, the singular purpose for which we exist, is to receive. Now, how to receive, what is the right way to do, there are right ways to receive, there are wrong ways to receive, of course. But if the foundational principle of light is that I came into this world to receive and to receive goodness, a bunch of”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“God is this old guy in the sky with a white beard, right? Which, of course, is silly, right? You'd have to be immature to in any way think of God in that way. Kabbalistically, the view of God, which I think is closer, and this is where it's, I think, both important and beautiful to science, which is that God is an energy. It is an energy, the primordial energy that brought this world into being. And it is also that energy that sustains everything that exists. You and I are both an aspect of what we call that light or that energy of the Creator. And everything that exists in the world is an aspect of that light. And therefore, everything in this world has a very positive part to it. Of course, everything also has the converse potential negative to it. But when we understand that everything is energy, God is energy, what others would call God, we often refer to as the creator of the light of the creator is energy.”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I'll share with you a few teachings that relate to this. So I was actually just studying this yesterday. There is a teaching that says that any great teacher, and they refer to Moses in this case, had to have both strength, wisdom, and wealth, that Moses could not have been Moses and could not have revealed what's called the Torah, the Bible, had he not had all three of those attributes, strength, wisdom, and wealth. We understand everything to be what we call a mathematically go a little bit deeper into this, but we call the light of the Creator. So what is our view of everything that exists, money included? Everything is only what we call the light of the Creator. And maybe we'll take a minute here. Will it make sense, I think, to talk about the cabalistic view of what others would call gods? So I always make the joke that, you know, some people have a vision.”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The show me state, right? They said spirit true spiritual wisdom has to always answer that question. Show me, is it working for me? Not, oh, I'm doing this so that when I leave this world, God will be happy with me and he'll put me in a good place. If it's true, if it's true and powerful and it works, I need to see the changes here and now.”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Either viewed or used in that way. And that not only, as we said, is not only needs to be a shift. I think certainly from that thought of erote following of rules, which again, as I said, both doesn't make sense, and neither was the original intention, but also sometimes completely distracts from the purpose, which the single simple, single question is, am I a better person today than I was yesterday? Have I changed tomorrow? Will I change person tomorrow than today? And that constant change was the only purpose for, we'll call it Moses' teachings, Jesus' teachings, all that have become religion. And therefore, when we call it a technology or we call it a spiritual wisdom, the understanding both has to make sense. And most importantly, and I think maybe this is the key, you have to see it working. My father, my teacher, the Rabbit Olphen, used that phrase that, you know, the Missouri is in the United States.”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Became known as the world's religion was a deep spiritual wisdom for only one purpose to help the individual transform, to be able to achieve the life that were meant to have. And when that's the view, you can call it religion, you can call it technology, the words are less important than the understanding of what is meant, which is that, at least the way we understand it, the capitalists understand it, religion, as many of us know it, was not the original thought, was not the original idea, that the only and therefore whether, again, this spiritual wisdom is whether you're Jewish, Christian, Muslim, or none of the above or something else, because it's viewed as simply a wisdom that to be learned for the individual to become transformed and become a better person on a consistent basis. Religion, unfortunately, as we said, throughout history has not always been.”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. So the word, as many words, even the word God, but the word religion has many different meanings to many different people. It has a positive and negative history, as most of us know. The capitalistic understanding is that when you go back to the origins, so whether you go back to Moses or Jesus or Muhammad, the understanding is that these people never meant their job purpose, their called it their prophetic visions, their writings, their teachings were never meant to create a road following of rules, which is unfortunately for many people, or at least historically, what religion has been seen as, which is this doesn't make sense, but God wants you to do it. And if you do it, God will be happy with you. And if you don't do it, God will be angry with you. That doesn't make any sense. But aside from that, it's also not the truth as the way we see it. The only purpose of...”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The fact that literally there have been people, many people for the past thousands of years that have literally either given up their lives or put their lives in jeopardy for the purpose of bringing this wisdom to the world, which leads me to the second point that I wanted to make, which is that when we talk about this wisdom, and I think it's really important, I think a lot of people have with the notions of religion, whether as it relates to spirituality, what we're talking about when we talk about the wisdom of Kabbalah, We're talking about the underpinning spiritual rules that govern life, that govern our world. And when you understand it in that way, it becomes clear, of course, anybody who wants should have access to it. If I or you, anybody in the world has wisdom, information that can make one person's life better, of course, that wisdom needs to be disseminated as widely as possible.”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And even as you said, as we go back only 100 years ago, Rabash, the founder of the center, many of his students who were very learned from very called good families in Jerusalem at the time in the 1920s and 30s, they were beaten up by people around them because everybody felt this wisdom is too important, too secret, too holy. Choose the word for anybody to be learning it, to be studying it. It should be kept in a book, in a corner, on a shelf. And so that has been the history. It has been dangerous literally up until relatively recently, physically dangerous to be studying and disseminating this wisdom. And as you said, in the 1970s when my parents began, continued the efforts of their earlier cabalists to bring this wisdom to a wider and wider audience, there was physical danger involved. Thankfully, today I don't think that that exists, but I think it is important, I know for myself to approve.”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. And the controversy goes back thousands of years. I mean, to be clear, you know, those who were teaching wisdom 2,000 years ago, especially during the Roman rule over Palestine, over what is now Israel, there were many teachers who were killed by the Romans because the Romans saw this teaching of this wisdom as in some ways undermining their control over the people, over the country. So one of the most important capitalists, Rabiya Kiva, who was the teacher of Rabishi, the author of the Zohar, He was killed by the Romans for gathering around him students to teach this wisdom. And unfortunately, that has been the history of this wisdom for many, many years, where it was always seen as either dangerous, either into government or to religion or to other people. And many people who partook of this wisdom and tried in any way to teach it, even if it was to small groups historically, would find themselves in danger.”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Originally held by only a few given from generation to generation to those chosen to receive the wisdom. About 100 years ago or so began a process of making this more and more accessible in other languages and of course making anybody who wanted to receive this wisdom to be able to access it. The other part of this, and by the way, William, feel free to ask if you want to go any further detail into the history of it, that we can talk an hour and a half just on the history, but yes.”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Only in Aramaic, so only those who understood Aramaic and were able to read it, were able to access this wisdom. This continued on, and there's a lot of history here. I won't go through all the steps of history, but basically up until about 100 years ago, you had to be a tremendous scholar with a connection to one of the teachers who had this secret wisdom to really access it fully. One of the reasons why the organization that I am a part of today, the Kabbalah Center, came into being about 100 years ago, was because they understood that the spiritual leaders at the time that the world needs this wisdom and then began a process first in Hebrew and then in English and then eventually in all the languages of the world to endeavor to make this wisdom accessible to all because it is necessary for all people. That's a little bit of the history. So it's an ancient secret wisdom that was a”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Years ago when what is called the Tawah, the Bible was revealed through Moses. And it was only about 2000 years ago when a great capitalist in the northern Galilee in northern Israel revealed to a small group of students the, what was called the Zohar or the secret teachings. And he asked them to start writing it down. From that moment for the next at least 1,000 years, students of Kabila, students of the Zohar would study these teachings and continue to write down and add on to them. But still, it was only to a small group of students. The teacher who had the wisdom would gather around him five students, ten students. And that's how the tradition kept going. About 800 years ago or so, the Kabbalists believed in there's other historical reasons for this that it's time for this to be at least a little bit more revealed than just to a small group of students. And therefore what's called the Zohar, the foundational text of Kabbalah was really brought out to the public. Again, still.”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sure. And so, what I'd like to have led to have a little bit historically and then a little bit more, I would say, deeper spiritual answer. So historically, the view is that from the beginning of time, there's always been this secret wisdom. And that's worn out through many of the works that have been revealed that came to our world. But that's the understanding. The understanding is that this wisdom is not a new wisdom. It's a wisdom that really was the foundation of the world within which we live. Historically, though, There are a number of books that came into being. One of the most ancient of the Kabbalistic works that we know is what's called the Pacific Ayid Sirah, the book of Creation or Formation, which was revealed a few thousand years ago. It is meant to have been written by Abraham, the biblical patriarch. Then the idea is that Kabbalah, which literally means received, it was an oral tradition, not a written tradition. So even, for instance, at Sinai, a few thousand”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Off as a little bit funny, but really what it means is that you can tell the difference between somebody who's really wise and somebody who's not is the humility that comes with wisdom. Because if you truly have any significant breath of wisdom, the one obvious conclusion is that you understand a tiny, tiny fraction of reality. And therefore, that must lead to humility. So, you know, I'm sure we've all met people like this in our lives. They're those who have all the answers for everything all the time. And there are those that have some of the answers sometimes, but always with humility. And that's the attainment of wisdom. So when you say you're not sure you've gotten any wife, that's one grave indication that you probably have.”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Conversation Well, I'd say two things I'd say on happier teachings that I share are the ones that continuously make me happier as well. And I think probably the first thought that I have around this is that the only way to truly have happiness is by running after wisdom all the time. And wisdom, I don't just mean information, right? A wisdom that changes us, that gives us a new viewpoint on life, on issues that we're going through. I don't believe that it's possible, certainly for most people. certainly for myself to be living a life that is progressively more enjoyable without a constant desire and pursuing the gaining of more wisdom that changes us. And on the wiser side, there's one of my favorite quotes from an ancient Italian cabbalist. He says that the purpose of all wisdom is to know that we know nothing. And I think it's a really important understand that, you know,”
2023-08-20 · We Study Billionaires · RWH031: Abundance w/ Michael Berg · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT