Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was a German-born physicist and the author of the special and general theories of relativity. He received the Nobel Prize in 1921, not for relativity but for explaining the photoelectric effect. After the Nazis came to power he emigrated to the United States, spending the rest of his life at Princeton.
About this theme: Mindfulness
Mindfulness has become close to an industry in recent decades, which makes it easy to forget how old the practice is. Buddhist texts on attention are two and a half millennia old, and the Stoics kept journals for the same purpose: to notice what is actually happening in the mind before acting on it. Marcus Aurelius wrote his notes for himself, in the morning, before the day's duties.
More by Albert Einstein
- Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
- Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
More on Mindfulness
- The earth laughs in flowers.— Ralph Waldo Emerson
- True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.— Seneca
- The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.— Michel de Montaigne
- A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.— Blaise Pascal