I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had powerful transpersonal experiences and continues to subscribe to the materialistic monism of Western science.
Interpretation
Einstein suggests that profound personal experiences often challenge conventional materialistic views of reality.
In this quote, Albert Einstein expresses his belief that individuals who have profound, transcendent experiences often find it difficult to adhere to the strictly materialistic perspective promoted by Western science. He implies that these experiences, which can be deeply spiritual or transformative, reveal a reality that transcends the physical and material world, leading to a greater understanding of existence that cannot be fully captured by reductionist scientific approaches.
In practice
In a lecture discussing the intersection of science and spirituality.
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.
The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?
By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.
Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.
Being both more systematically brutal than chimps and more empathetic than _x000D_ bonobos, we are by far the most bipolar ape. Our societies are never completely peaceful, never completely competitive, never ruled by sheer selfishness, and never perfectly moral.
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