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“Infinity is immanent everywhere and accessible, in principle, to all. But no one can ever be fully purified, or fully prepared, for an encounter with the Infinite. Accept it. Embrace imperfection as the starting point in any ascent. The lotus flower ascends and emerges into the sunlight upon a stem that stretches down into the darkest depths.”

“All things have lessons to teach us, and everywhere we look we are only ourselves. Everything is illuminated by the light of Infinity.”

“And some third force, some as yet unknown mode of thinking of method of intuition, must aspire to finally achieve a harmonious integration of mind and matter.”

“Einstein’s teaching holds both science and spirituality to a higher standard than ever. Science ha foto humbly accept how far it still has to go, and admit that its conception of the cosmos will be incomplete until it can embrace consciousness. Spirituality has to come down from the ethereal realms where it’s most comfortable, and commit to effecting actual change here on Earth.”

“This could all be a dream. You may not be seeing it at all. But you have to assume something. Be proud of bringing the mean between microcosm and microcosm. Stand still and marvel.”

Plato’s famous theory of anamnesis: that all knowledge is really only recollection.

“…separately strands of information. Rational knowledge meant a deep reckoning with the nature of reality and a nuanced appreciation of our true place in the transcendental tapestry. And since real science and real religion were indistinguishable for hm, they inevitably shared the same goal: seeing unity in multiplicity….”

“‘In a man of my type,’ he maintained, the deepest understanding could be gained when the mind ‘disengages itself to a far-reaching degree from the momentary and the merely personal and turns toward the striving for a conceptual grasp of things.’

For Einstein, a conceptual grasp meant not just a proliferation of facts or an accumulation of observations, but a comprehensive synthesis of all these ….

Einstein: “Could we not reject the concept of matter and build a pure field physics? What impresses our senses as matter is really a great concentration of energy into a comparatively small space. We could regard matter as the regions in space where the field is extremely strong. In this way a new philosophical background could be created. Its final aim would be the explanation of all events in nature by…

“Niels Bohr, Einstein’s close friend … thought that quantum physics, with its emphasis on complementary opposites, was grappling with the same kind of conundrums that had confronted Lao Tzu, the Tao Te Ching’s legendary author.”