Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Ship's log - 7 July 2008

We are three months into the voyage. I don’t know about you but it is quite a journey for me as I revisit some of the shores I touched at during difficult times. Here I am dusting off old sea charts of dangerous shoaling waters long left behind, but at the same time I am discovering how soon we forget the lessons we learned and how we need to remember them, as I am remembering them now. This site is becoming a storehouse of all the best philosophy that helped me in the past and it feels very satisfying to record it and to share it with you. It is a reflection of what I would have liked to find when I was in need of guidance. And as we continue the voyage it will transform, I hope, into a voyage of discovery, as we leave familiar shores and head out into the open sea.

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The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear, is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men.
Albert Einstein
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