“Love and justice are not two. without inner change, there can be no outer change; without collective change, no change matters.”—Reverend angel Kyodo williams

As a professor at Princeton in 1949, Albert Einstein reflected on the place of human beings in the universe. In correspondence with a rabbi, he wrote that due to our limitations in our ability to experience the universe, our species is prone to a fundamental misunderstanding about our place in it. He wrote that the human “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.”

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Here, Einstein wrote of one of the most persistent and vexing problems of our species: the […]