For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it.
Interpretation
The quote reflects the importance of following one's true nature, while recognizing the unexpected admiration that can arise from it.
In this quote, Albert Einstein expresses the notion that he largely pursues actions and choices that are innate to his character. He acknowledges the irony in receiving respect and love from others for merely being true to himself, highlighting the complex relationship between authenticity and external validation.
In practice
During a motivational speech, to illustrate the importance of authenticity in personal achievements.
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.
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.
Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")
Time is the most valuable thing you have - and I'm not just talking about the minutes for which you're paid.
He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.
Meditation _x000D_ practice begins by sitting down and assuming your seat cross-legged on _x000D_ the ground. You begin to feel that by simply being on the spot, your _x000D_ life can become workable and even wonderful. You realize that you are _x000D_ capable of sitting like a king or queen on a throne. The regalness of _x000D_ that situation shows you the... dignity that comes from being still and _x000D_ simple.
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