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Albert Einstein’s thoughts on Spirit and Science
Albert Einstein is considered as one of the greatest physicist ever in the modern world, and his ideas on theoretical physics and his invention or solving of the famous energy mass equation 
have significantly impacted every aspect of modern life. However, the same man is considered a great philosopher who penned the following quotes on humanity and true religiousness as noted below:
“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 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
Additional reading…
- http://www.sacred-texts.com/aor/einstein/
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
- http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/einstein-bio.html
- http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
- http://www.worsleyschool.net/science/files/emc2/emc2.html
Science, evolution and the inner journey
OSHO clearly states the role of science and why it has never understood the inner journey of the self. Watch him deliver the explanation rejecting science in the video: OSHO: Science and the Inner Journey
Yes, there is no difficulty. Words can be defined clearly. The difficulty is not because of the words, the basic difficulty is coming from somewhere else. That is, the scientist, deep down, does not believe that there is anything inner. He may say so, he may not say so, but his whole training, his whole education, makes him trust only objects which he can dissect, which he can observe, which he can analyze, which he can compose, create, uncreate, find out their basic constituents. His whole mind is object-oriented, and subjectivity is not an object. So if he wants subjectivity to be put before him on the table, that is not possible; that is not the nature of subjectivity. So the scientist goes on finding everything in the world except himself.
OSHO also negates Charles Darwin and his Theory of Evolution as a mundane scientific finding and states that the whole world of evolved men from apes are just sleeping, except for a very very few awakened individuals. He asks: “Can’t we all live as ONE humanity?” in the video: OSHO: Waking Up the World
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