Every time I read Einstein’s quotes I am moved and inspired. His words can be simple, and yet profound at the same time. They bring clarity when I am searching for answers and definitions.

Einstein Quotes

They encourage me when I observe vanity and superficiality. They anchor me in a more positive reality when I feel disappointed or distracted. Pondering their profound meaning creates stillness and allows me to “visit my higher self”. This is where I become renewed and invigorated: marveling in my personal fountain of creativity. Within this place, I interweave with Universal Wisdom …..and that is power!

So I invite you to take a few minutes and enter silence, reflecting upon the content of these magnificent verses. I personally like to bask in the light that emanates from them. The depth of his soul continues to speak to us through time and space.

“The Intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”

“You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew.”

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. (Albert Einstein, 1954)

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; It is the source of all true art and science.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

God does not play dice with the universe.

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.

What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.”

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

“Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.”

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

The only real valuable thing is intuition.”

“A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”

“I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.”

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”

“Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”

“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”

“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”

“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”.
( Albert Einstein – The Merging of Spirit and Science)

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