Wholeness and intellegence
A quote from Albert Einstein courtesy of Flemming Funch:
“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “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 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 to 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.”
There is a whole chapter on this in Presence called “Science Performed with the Mind of Wisdom.” In it, the authors discuss the implications of science being done by people who think like Einstein and David Bohm. Using imagination, intuition and compassion to do science plays with the principle that Humerto Maturana once elucidated:
“Love, allowing the other to be a legitimate other, is the only emotion that expands intelligence.”
