When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous
Interpretation
The quote expresses that understanding the divine creation of the universe gives deeper significance to life, rendering other concerns trivial.
In this quote, Albert Einstein highlights the profound impact that studying the Bhagavad-Gita has had on his perspective of life and the universe. He suggests that contemplating the nature of divine creation transcends everyday worries and trivialities, emphasizing the importance of spiritual and philosophical understanding over material concerns. This reflection points to a belief that true understanding and meaning come from a higher consciousness rather than mundane aspects of existence.
In practice
In a discussion about spirituality, one might say, 'As Einstein said, when I read the Bhagavad-Gita, everything else seems so superfluous.'
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself.
For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length--and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly.
Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a transforming commitment to the living Christ, is by Biblical standards less than faith, and less than saving, and to elicit only assent of this kind would be to secure only false conversions.
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It’s a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn’t even an ideal that anybody’s fighting for.
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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