Einstein writes about a pan-Divine figure in his letters and it stimulates me to think that this man, this logical minded scientist, who indulged in not only philosophical thought, but in meta-physics and concept of worm theory, even had some kind of internal debate on the Divine.
What I like about Einstein's views on Divinity is that it was speculation and understanding and part faith. It boggles my mind that a man as great as Einstein, the father of Relativity and Advanced Physics, even could not answer the questions of the day.
What drives me is that why he did not totally reject the notion of a God, unlike other scientists such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Darwin.
Einstein's Letters on the Divine,
A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive.
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The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
-Dr. Albert Einstein.
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