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When asked by an astounded atheist, if he were in fact deeply religious, Einstein replied:

Yes, you can call it that. Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious.

— H. G. Kessler, The Diary of a Cosmopolitan, (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971), p.157; quoted in Einstein and Religion by Max Jammer (Princeton University Press, 1999) pp. 39-40.

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Mindfulness is present-time awareness.

It takes place in the here and now.

It is the observance of what is happening right now,

in the present moment.

It stays forever in the present,

perpetually on the crest of the ongoing wave

of passing time.

If you are remembering your second-grade teacher,

that is memory.

When you then become aware that you are remembering

your second-grade teacher,

that is mindfulness.

If you then conceptualize that process and say to yourself,

"Oh, I am remembering,"

that is thinking.

~ Henepola Gunaratana

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"Is there anything I can do to make myself enlightened?"

"As little as you can do to make the sun rise in the morning."

"Then of what use are the spiritual exercises you prescribe?"

"To make sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise."

~ Anthony deMello, from One Minute Wisdom

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