Joel Bomane

Who I'd like to meet:

Buddha, Caesar, Jesus, Napoleon, Lincoln, Gandhi, Einstein, Martin Lutherking, Pdt. Jimmy Carter, Benjamin Carson, MD, Yannick Noa, Nicolas Hulot...and anybody bringing some new way of thinking: new paradigm shift...

Einstein sought in science what artists seek in art.

Einstein attempted to escape from the gloominess and terrors of society by connecting with the whole universe.

Einstein wanted sense and beauty in the physical world. God does not play dice with the Universe,

He hoped to find a hidden design that would somehow reassure him of the beauty and artistry of the world.

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The following comes from "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck,

"The Saturday Evening Post, Oct. 26, 1929, p. 17.

Some portions of this interview might seem questionable, but this portion of the interview was explicitly confirmed by Einstein.

When asked about a clipping from a magazine article (likely the Saturday Evening Post) reporting Einstein's comments on Christianity taken down by Viereck, Einstein carefully read the clipping and replied, "That is what I believe." See Brian pp. 277 - 278.

On Jesus

"To what extent are you influenced by Christianity"

"As a child, I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene."

"Have you read Emil Ludwig's book on Jesus?

"Emil Ludwig's Jesus," replied Einstein, "is shallow. Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot."

"You accept the historical existence of Jesus?"

"Unquestionably. No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.

How different, for instance, is the impression which we receive from an account of legendary heroes of antiquity like Theseus. Theseus and other heroes of his type lack the authentic vitality of Jesus."

"Ludwig Lewisohn, in one of his recent books, claims that many of the sayings of Jesus paraphrase the sayings of other prophets."

"No man," Einstein replied, "can deny the fact that Jesus existed, nor that his sayings are beautiful. Even if some them have been said before, no one has expressed them so divinely as he."

On Buddha, Moses, and Jesus

Our time is distinguishedby wonderful achievements in the fields of scientific understanding and the technical application of those insights. Who would not be cheered by this? But let us not forget that knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.

Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind.

What these blessed men have given us we must guard and try to keep alive with all our strength if humanity is not to lose its dignity, the security of its existence, and its joy in living.

From Goldman, p. 88.
# Goldman, Robert N., Einstein's God? Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God (Joyce Aronson Inc.; Northvale, New Jersy; 1997).

Christianity and Judaism

If one purges the Judaism of the Prophets and Christianity as Jesus taught it of all subsequent additions, especially those of the priests, one is left with a teaching which is capable of curing all the social ills of humanity.

It is the duty of every man of good will to strive steadfastly in his own little world to make this teaching of pure humanity a living force, so far as he can. If he makes an honest attempt in this direction without being crushed and trampled under foot by his contemporaries, he may consider himself and the community to which he belongs lucky.

From Einstein's book The World as I See It (Philosophical Library, New York, 1949) pp. 111-112

Greater Things Than Jesus

It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.

From W. I. Hermanns "A Talk with Einstein," October 1943, Einstein Archive 55-285

The Kingdom of God

One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.

From Goldman, p. 98.

# Goldman, Robert N., Einstein's God? Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God (Joyce Aronson Inc.; Northvale, New Jersy; 1997).

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Why do we struggle? What is the essence of struggle, what is the essence ambition? Surely, conflict is the essence of ambition.

Why are we so everlastingly ambitious at all levels of our existence?

The so-called spiritual man, the sannyasi, the man with a beard, the politicians, the merchant, the man who is acquiring knowledge?they are all ambitious.

Why? Why this conflict and struggle?

From: "To LOVE without Conflict" J. Krishnamurti.

"Mind is held in a pattern; its very existence is the frame within which it works and moves. The pattern is of the past or the future, it is despair and hope, confusion and Utopia, the what has been and the what should be. With this we are all familiar. You want to break the old pattern and substitute a 'new' one, the new being the modified old.

?You want to produce a new world.

It is impossible.

You may deceive yourself and others, but unless the old pattern is broken completely there cannot be a radical transformation. You may play around with it, but you are not the hope of the world.

The breaking of the pattern, both the old and the so-called new, is of the utmost importance if order is to come out of this chaos. That is why it is essential to understand the ways of the mind.?

Is it possible for the mind to be without a pattern, to be free of this backward and forward swing of desire?

It is definitely possible.

Such action is living in the now. To live is to be without hope, without the care of tomorrow; it is not hopelessness or indifference.

But we are not living, we are always pursuing death, the past or the future. Living is the greatest revolution. Living has no pattern, but death has: the past or the future, the what has been or the Utopia.

You are living for the Utopia, and so you are inviting death and not life."

"Living Is the Greatest Revolution" - The Book of Life (September 25) J. Krishnamurti.

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On NBC's "Meet the Press," also taped Friday* and aired Sunday, Clinton told interviewer Tim Russert that the biggest problem confronting the world today is:

"the illusion that our differences matter more than our common humanity."

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* Friday September 22, 2006

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