William,

Just vastly over-rated and misrepresented.  Casting any individual into a 
"genius" category does more harm to everyone than it does good for the one 
individual.  He was a one-trick pony, and the one trick was at the expense of 
his being a whole human being.  No one should envy the poor man.

--Joe
 
> Email <brintala@...> wrote:
>
> My point being that Einstein, one of the most brilliant minds of the 20th 
> Century. The epitome of rational thought and logical thinking believed that 
> "imagination" was superior. Now when I think of imagination I think of a 
> level of thought beyond forms. Unbound by structure or preconception. He may 
> not have been referring to the holy zen concept of no thought but he did 
> reference often that he would stop thinking and the ideas would come. His 
> "unconscious" the "collective unconscious" ? Some way of being outside of his 
> brain. 
> 
> 
> “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you 
> want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
> 
> I'm completely in the dark regarding your thoughts on this man. 




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