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Einstein's most valuable letter
In 1922, at Tokyo during his lecture tour Albert Einstein tipped a courier with handwritten note instead of cash, saying they might one day be worth more. One read: “A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest.” In October 2017, that note sold for $1.56 million at Winner's auction house in Jerusalem.
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Timeless
"If you practice deeply enough, you get out of time, you enter timelessness. And that is possible with the practice of great insight. We know that the notion of weeks, years, the beginning of the year, the new year, the old year, all these are invented by the human mind.
Let us imagine the new year is flying from the east to the west. Now it's almost 10 o'clock in Bangkok and there will be two more hours for the new year to come. But in France they need more time to come. So the new year is flying, time is traveling in space. And that is entirely the human creation, the notion of time & space, a creation of our mind.
And that is why it is possible to free ourselves from the notion of time/space as two distinctive entities. Modern science speaks already of non-locality and they gave the hint that if we look deeply enough, we'll be able to transcend the notion of time & space. And this is the deepest practice within Buddhism. If you are very mindful & concentrated, you can get the kind of insight that brings you out of time/space & touch timelessness."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
