encounters with nondual awareness

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein

The purpose of all true art and science
is to reveal the Creator's design.
Albert Einstein

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

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Albert Einstein

 

Subtle is the Lord
The Science and the Life
of Albert Einstein
Abraham Pais

 Einstein as Myth and Muse
Alan J Friedman
Carol C Donley

albert einstein

"I have no special talent.
I am only passionately curious."
 

A child's 'beginner's mind' shapes the mind of humanity ...

"As a child, Einstein had asked himself what the world would look like if he could travel astride a speeding light beam, and he also wondered how the wave would appear if he could dismount and travel beside it at the same velocity."
Leonard Shlain Art and Physics

By 1905 Einstein had acquired the mathematical skills to explore his question, and the special theory of relativity was published. The way we think about the world changed forever. And, because "observations about reality are observer-dependent", the world itself changed as well.

"In working out the interrelationships among space, time, energy, and mass, Einstein peered behind the multifaceted mask of illusion that hides the true unity of the universe."
Leonard Shlain Art and Physics

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The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the sower of all true art and science... To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself to us as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling is at the centre of all true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the ranks of devoutly religious men.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

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.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

The greatest formal talent is worthless if it does not serve a creativity which is capable of shaping a cosmos.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Albert Einstein

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Einstein's son, speaking about his father:
"… he had a character more like that of an artist than of a scientist as we usually think of them. For instance, the highest praise for a good theory or a good piece of work was not that it was correct nor that it was exact but that it was beautiful."
Hans Albert Einstein

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Albert Einstein

The separate self is an optical delusion in Consciousness.
Albert Einstein

Art and Physics
Leonard Shlain

The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove that there must be any specific existence behind such a concept.  We are succumbing to illusions produced by our self-created language, without reaching a better understanding of anything.  Most of so-called philosophy is due to this kind of fallacy.
Albert Einstein
 

creativity without time

david bohm

e h gombrich

ken wilber

on creativity

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stanley sobottka

the art of seeing

the wonder of wonder

the zen of creativity