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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
Do you trust your mind or your spirit?
Deepak Chopra says:
“I don’t trust my mind, but I do trust my spirit which is beyond my mind. My mind is full of contradictions, and paradoxes, and definitions, and labels, and judgments, and good, and evil, I don’t trust my mind at all, but I do trust my spirit which is beyond all of us.”
Watch the video clip here for the above words in the broader context.
The above video was part of the ongoing ABC Nightline Faceoff on “Does satan exist?”, which is a television series of lively and informative debates on the intersection of religion, science, evolution, morality, society and other topics that relate to living in this day and age. Watch this on ABC Nightline website, there are many Nightline Face-off clips archived in YouTube also.
Conclusion: Mind is a vast ocean just made up of waves of thought, one thought leading to the next, and it is never-ending. Thoughts become ego-forming attachments that reside in the mind, obscuring the spirit within. Silencing our mind allows us to become aware of our spiritual self that resides deep within our soul, which is the real God within each one of us. Being one with this inner spiritual self is being one with God. Trusting the spirit within you is tantamount to trusting God.
