lets take a break!

lets take a break from job search! relax. calm down. quite now. keep talking to consultants

everything is determined. things will only happen when they have to.  let's finish 'why things happen the way they do' first.

The great Einstein

thoughts by Albert Einstein

"Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none."

— Albert Einstein

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."- Albert Einstein

When asked how he came up with the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein said I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them. ~ Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/9810.Albert_Einstein?page=2

I do not believe in Free Will

I choose hereby my opinion and conviction on this subject from the belief of two of the greatest men human civilization has had.


Let us not forget that knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.... I claim credit for nothing.


Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper." - Albert Einstein


Albert Einstein

I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wants,' accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others, even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness (not perception) of the lack of free will keeps me from taking myself and my fellow men too seriously as acting and deciding individuals, and from losing my temper.


"I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense…. Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will what he wants,’ has been a very real inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of life’s hardships, my own and others’, and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance. This realization mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in part, gives humor its due." 

— Albert Einstein (The World As I See It)

Einstein wrote, "In God's eyes, man cannot be responsible for his actions any more than an inanimate object is responsible for the motion it undergoes."





Abraham Lincoln


The Almighty has his own purposes. “The human mind,” Lincoln wrote, “is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.” Our choices thus are predetermined though we may appear to be making them consciously. (the illusion of free will)


Reference Material
http://callmeamar.blogspot.com/2011/06/everything-is-predetermined.html
http://callmeamar.blogspot.com/2011/06/einsteins-credo.html

The illusion of free will is essential to rational decision making. Accepted. But it does not change the fact that free will is an illusion.

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Albert Einstein

“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. In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort.”


Einstein’s belief in something larger than himself produced in him a wondrous mixture of confidence and humility. 


http://einstein.biz/quotes

Einstein's Credo

This is one of the most beautiful, divine, sublime and surreal collection of words I have come across in my life. Not surprisingly, it is the Credo of Albert Einstein:

My Credo

[Part I]
"It is a special blessing to belong among those who can and may devote their best energies to the contemplation and exploration of objective and timeless things. How happy and grateful I am for having been granted this blessing, which bestows upon one a large measure of independence from one's personal fate and from the attitude of one's contemporaries. Yet this independence must not inure us to the awareness of the duties that constantly bind us to the past, present and future of humankind at large.

Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here, involuntarily and uninvited, for a short stay, without knowing the why and the wherefore. In our daily lives we feel only that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own.

I am often troubled by the thought that my life is based to such a large extent on the work of my fellow human beings, and I am aware of my great indebtedness to them.

I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wants,' accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others, even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness of the lack of free will keeps me from taking myself and my fellow men too seriously as acting and deciding individuals, and from losing my temper.

I have never coveted affluence and luxury and even despise them a good deal. My passion for social justice has often brought me into conflict with people, as has my aversion to any obligation and dependence I did not regard as absolutely necessary.

[Part 2]

I have a high regard for the individual and an insuperable distaste for violence and fanaticism. All these motives have made me a passionate pacifist and antimilitarist. I am against any chauvinism, even in the guise of mere patriotism.

Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as does any exaggerated personality cult. I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I know well the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic protection of the individual have always seemed to me the important communal aims of the state.

Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice keeps me from feeling isolated.

The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as of all serious endeavor in art and science. He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at least blind. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly: this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious. To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of the lofty structure of all there is."

Jeffrey Archers advice for writers

I always go to my home in Majorca to write, because it’s quiet and there are no distractions there.  I have a writing room that I use which overlooks the sea, and I write in two-hour blocks every day, from 6-8am, 10-12noon, 2-4pm, 6-8pm with a break in between each two hour session to eat or go for a walk.


I would suggest starting with a short story before attempting a novel.  I didn’t write my first book until I was 34.

One life to live!

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