A human being is part of the whole - called by us the universe - a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical illusion of his consciousness. This illusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal concerns and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to include all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. — Albert Einstein (from What I Believe) I don’t have the feeling that I write my books. I have the feeling that my books get written through me, and that once they have got across me, I feel empty and nothing is left. … I never had, and still do not have, the perception of feeling my personal identity. I appear to myself as the place where something is going on, but there is no “I”, no “me.” Each of us is a kind of crossroads where things happen. — Claude Levi-Strauss (from Myth and Meaning)
Posted on: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 23:27:33 +0000
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