Disturbing the World

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I was driving north on Highway 6 on a recent midsummer morning. It was about 7 a.m. and the sun was already heating up the day, in the midst of what could be classified as an unbroken heatwave. Suddenly, I saw to my left a vast sea of shining yellow gold.

A field of mature sunflowers was basking in the morning light, its myriad faces smiling directly at the drivers passing up and down the road. Read the rest of this entry »

“A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason in their most elementary forms–it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude.”

There is something within us that resonates with the divine. Einstein was certainly not religious in the conventional sense: he didn’t believe in a personal god and felt certain that physical death was the end for the individual. In his worldview there was no survival of the human personality and no accountability to a Divine Judge in the afterlife. But he couldn’t deny the attraction of the spiritual Power that charges the cosmos:

“Every one Read the rest of this entry »