A human being is part of the Whole

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" A human being is part of the Whole... He experiences himself,

his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the

rest...a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.

This delusion is a kind of prison for us,

restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few

persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this

prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living

creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to

achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is,

in itself, a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner

security " .

~Albert Einstein

 

ERWIN SCHROEDINGER

 

" Hence this life of yours which you are living is not merely a

piece of the entire existence, but is, in a certain sense, the

WHOLE; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be

surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the

Brahmins express in the sacred, mystic formula which is yet so

simple and so clear: " Tat Tvam asi " . this is you...And not

merely " someday " ; now, today, every day she is bringing you

forth, not once, but thousands upon thousands of times, just as

every day she engulfs you a thousand times over. For eternally

and always there is only now, one and the same now; the

present is the only thing that has no end. "

~Erwin Schroedinger

 

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