Albert Estein about Spinoza
They knew that when Einstein gave a lecture in the numerous universities in the USA, the recurrent question that the students asked him was:- Do you believe in God?And he always answered:-I believe in the God of Spinoza.The one who had not read Spinoza stayed in the same ...I hope this little gem of history will serve you as much as I do.Baruch de Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher considered one of the three great rationalists of the seventeenth century philosophy, together with the Frenchman Descartes.Here something of him.This is the God or nature of Spinoza:God would have said:Stop praying and hitting your chest!What I want you to do is that you go out into the world to enjoy your life.I want you to enjoy, to sing, to have fun and to enjoy everything I have done for you.Stop going to those gloomy temples, dark and cold that you built yourself and you say are my house!My house is in the mountains, in the forests, the rivers, the lakes, the beaches. That's where I live and there I express my love for you.Stop blaming me for your miserable life; I never told you that there was nothing wrong with you or that you were a sinner, or that your sexuality was a bad thing!Sex is a gift that I have given you and with which you can express your love, your ecstasy, your joy. So do not blame me for everything you've been led to believe.Stop being reading alleged sacred scriptures that have nothing to do with me. If you can not read me in a dawn, in a landscape, in the eyes of your friends, in the eyes of your little boy ...You will not find me in any book!Trust me and stop asking me. Are you going to tell me how to do my job?Stop being so afraid of me. I do not judge you, I do not criticize you, I do not get angry, I do not bother, I do not punish. I am pure love.Stop asking me for forgiveness, there is nothing to forgive. If I made you ... I filled you with passions, limitations, pleasures, feelings, needs, incoherencies ... of free will. How can I blame you if you respond to something that I put in you? How can I punish you for being the way you are, if I am the one who made you? Do you think I could create a place to burn all my little boys who misbehave, for the rest of eternity?What kind of God can do that?Forget about any kind of commandments, any kind of laws; those are tricks to manipulate you, to control you, that only create guilt in you.Respect your fellows and do not do what you do not want for you. The only thing I ask is that you pay attention in your life, that your alertness be your guide.My beloved, this life is not a test, nor a step, nor a step on the road, nor a trial, nor a prelude to paradise. This life is the only thing that is here and now and the only thing you need.I have made you absolutely free, there are no rewards or punishments, there are no sins or virtues, no one carries a marker, no one keeps a record.You are absolutely free to create a heaven or hell in your life.I can not tell you if there is anything after this life, but I can give you some advice. Live as if there was not. As if this were your only chance to enjoy, to love, to exist.So, if there is nothing, then you will have enjoyed the opportunity that I gave you. And if there is, be assured that I will not ask you if you behaved well or badly, I'll ask you. Did you like it? You had fun? What did you enjoy the most? You learned?...Stop believing in me; to believe is to suppose, to guess, to imagine. I do not want you to believe in me, I want you to feel me in you. I want you to feel me in you when you kiss your beloved, when you dress your little daughter, when you caress your dog, when you bathe in the sea.Stop praising me, what kind of egomaniac do you think I am?It bores me to be praised, I'm fed up to be grateful. Do you feel grateful? Show it by taking care of yourself, your health, your relationships, the world. Do you feel watched, overwhelmed? ... Express your joy! That is the way to praise me.Stop complicating things and repeating as a parrot what they have taught you about me.The only sure thing is that you are here, that you are alive, that this world is full of wonders.Why do you need more miracles? Why so many explanations?Do not look for me outside, you will not find me. Find me inside ... there I am, beating in you.Spinoza ;)