Albert Einstein~ Thoughts

[pudgy]

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

[pudgy]

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

[Klash]

"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal god and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual and a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism."

Have you ever noticed alot of "geniuses" found their way to Buddhism or Hinduism?

examples
Nikola Tesla, Walter Russell my Biology professor, and of course Einstein who's quote that is.

[Klash]

Originally posted by pudgy
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.

I love this kind of talk (drunk talk)
Obviously time is perceived as fast and slow for individuals, but doesn't it seem like time could be increasing in speed for us all.

[Morgan]

Originally posted by pudgy
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Great quotes, Sachet & Pudgy . I like this one a lot. It's too easy to be comfortable with things.

[pudgy]

If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber.

[pudgy]

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding

[Sachet]

It seems like Einstein's views take on a whole new meaning as you start to grow up.
I mean, I'm reading thingys on him right now & his words are hitting me in a different fashion than they did a couple of years ago.

[pudgy]

Strange is our Situation Here Upon Earth.

[Sachet]

Pudgy~

I don't think I've seen half those quotes either! *lol*

[pudgy]

Originally posted by Sachet
It seems like Einstein's views take on a whole new meaning as you start to grow up.
I mean, I'm reading thingys on him right now & his words are hitting me in a different fashion than they did a couple of years ago.

i personally think he was the greatest thinker to ever live. his writings mold the way i think .

[pudgy]

Originally posted by Sachet
Pudgy~

I don't think I've seen half those quotes either! *lol*

he has a lot of them, some great websites about him

[goliath.jr]

Re: Albert Einstein~ Thoughts

Originally posted by Sachet
'A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his 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 this prison by widening our circle of compassion to enhance all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.'

~Albert Einstein

Yeah. "NO BLOOD FOR OIL, NO BLOOD FOR OIL"...j/k

[Sachet]

Originally posted by Klash
"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal god and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual and a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism."

Have you ever noticed alot of "geniuses" found their way to Buddhism or Hinduism?

examples
Nikola Tesla, Walter Russell my Biology professor, and of course Einstein who's quote that is.

I really get this strange sense that Einstein fell victim to having to catagorize things by way of the systematic formulated knowledge route or his peers would have laughed him out of the scientific community.

Einstein transcended the three dimensional barriers and took science beyond our sensory organs AND it appears that he was touching on thoughts that since the human brain is driven by consciousness.. it operates at a speed much faster than the speed of light.
The reason this is of great interest to me right now is because he understood an individual's physiology potential & the benefits of meditation.

Albert Einstein quote~
'Individual existence impresses him as a sort of prison and he wants to experience the universe as a single cosmic whole. The beginnings of cosmic religious feeling already appear at an early stage of development, as an example in the Psalms of David and in some of the Prophets. Buddhism, as we have learned especially from the wonderful writings of Schopenhaur, contains a much stronger element of this.'

I think if Albert were still alive & progressing steadily at a the rate he was 'scientifically' progressing, he would have already researched & documented the fifth or sixth state of consciousness. It appears he was headed in the direction of Transcendental Meditation, {which is the fourth state of consciousness...according to the Vedic texts}.

[Sachet]

Klash~

A large number of the world's leading scientists are Jewish by origin.. interesting, huh?