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.
Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.
The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.
The fire was silent, the little houses collapsing into the flames without complaint, flocks of sparks rising to the sky. At a distance it seemed beautiful, and I thought it was strange that powerful violence is often so pleasing to the eye.
IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.
Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
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