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Einstein, Albert - On receiving wisdom and inspiration
Identifier
004193
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Inner speech appears to be the language of genius, the language of inspiration and intuition. This is how Einstein described it
A description of the experience
Einstein [from Problems of Scientific Revolution by Karl Popper]
The words of the language as they are written or spoken do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought … which relies on more or less clear images of a visual and some of a muscular type. It also seems to me that what you call full consciousness is a limit-case which can never be fully accomplished because consciousness is a narrow thing