Einstein was a scientific genius no one doubts. What is lesser known or acknowledged is that he was a wisdom teacher as demonstrated in his hundreds of letters to colleagues and family.
Just reading his quotes on imagination and intuition—
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.”
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
Establish him as a unique thinker who did not spend all his time on the new physics he spearheaded.
One of his letters captured me recently, in which he predicts that he will not be understood, like e=mc2 was originally misunderstood. In his words:
“When I proposed the theory of relativity, very few understood me, and what I will reveal now to transmit to mankind will also collide with the misunderstanding and prejudice in the world.”
He goes on to name it:
There is an extremely powerful force that, so far, science has not found a formal explanation to. It is a force that includes and governs all others, and is even behind any phenomenon operating in the universe and has not yet been identified by us. This universal force is LOVE. When scientists looked for a unified theory of the universe they forgot the most powerful unseen force.
I wonder how he came to this conclusion. Regardless he goes on and takes it out of the abstract and into social implications: If we want our species to survive, if we are to find meaning in life, if we want to save the world and every sentient being that inhabits it, love is the one and only answer.
And he calls out our personal responsibility: Each individual carries within them a small but powerful generator of love whose energy is waiting to be released.
Done any love generator energy releasing lately? How might I do that you ask. Small ways. Start close to home. Send a prayer or some white light to a friend in need. Or do a compassion meditation if you know how, and if you don’t look it up. Lots of good descriptions and there is a useful sequence to follow.
Using our small but powerful love generators sounds like a good and necessary idea for our angry, fearful time. As the Youngbloods sang 50 years ago –
You hold the key to love and fear all in your trembling hand.
Just one key unlocks them both, it’s there at your command.
Thank you, Albert.