Socrates more, or less wrote on a similar theme some years past, when stating that the intelligent person knows that they know nothing...thereby enabling them to keep on learning, that there is much more to learn.
Philip Roth through his much appreciated books demonstrated a certain cynical response to the easy willingness of people to view life through a black, and white lens that makes sense without further thought that life's uncertainties are the catalysts for the human person's quest for answers that address the eternal question, why me? Why is The Universe punishing me? Why did I lose my job? Why has my marriage ended in divorce? Why, why, why?
The Universe has its ways of revealing the unexplored regions of its mysterious secrets to those who eventually confess, that we don't possess all the answers, or even a few. Then The Universe begins the life long process of teaching us its lessons, that we may better cooperate with its plan for our life.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.~Albert Einstein
The ego has its way of misleading many into believing that their superior intellect is their reward for being free from subservience to notions that rely on mysterious external forces exercising influence on the choices that each of us employs to advance our life's journey of self discovery.
The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can’t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.
~Albert Einstein
Professor Einstein's words illustrate that his use of the word simple is a recognition that his brilliant intellect did not blind him to the obvious, that there is an intelligent universe with a will to influence the direction of life that each of us should take to live in fulfilment of the plan that The Universe designs for each human person.
Very, many years ago when a student in London I would take the underground train to college and observe many passengers filling in crossword puzzles in their daily newspaper. One particular morning the metro train came to a halt with the driver announcing a signal failure, and resulting delay in our journey.
I looked over my left shoulder noting an elderly man filling in the crossword puzzle in The Times newspaper. Within the time that the train was delayed, some ten minutes, the entire crossword puzzle had been completed. I asked my fellow passenger the secret to his rapid completion of the puzzle. He replied that it had taken him some years to enter into the mind of the author of the puzzles, eventually enabling him to harmonise his thinking, with the brain behind the crossword puzzles.
Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.~Albert Einstein
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