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.
I grew up with a lot of people whose whole prime mover was dad rage. I never really had it - it always seemed so empty. It always seemed to be masking something else, which was really their own lack of initiative.
How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?
Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.
I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.
There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it.
My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.
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