EINSTEIN’S IDEAS ON LOVE
SAM
I'm sending this early as an Easter 'present'.
Below is a copy of a letter often attributed to Albert Einstein. While many scholars debate its authenticity, those close to him have noted that these sentiments align with the great man’s deeper philosophies. Regardless of its origin, Jerry Haloran—the founder and leader of the Two Thousand Smiles movement—believes these ideas perfectly reflect the school's core values.
In the late 1980s, Einstein’s daughter, Lieserl, reportedly donated 1,400 of his letters to Hebrew University with the condition that they remain unpublished for two decades after his death. This is said to be one of them:
When I proposed the theory of relativity, very few understood me. What I reveal now to mankind will also collide with the misunderstanding and prejudice of the world.
There is an extremely powerful force for which science has yet to find a formal explanation. It is a force that includes and governs all others; it is the moving power behind every phenomenon in the universe, yet it remains unidentified by us. This universal force is LOVE.
When scientists searched for a unified theory of the universe, they forgot this most powerful unseen force. Love is light, for it enlightens those who give and receive it. Love is gravity, because it makes people feel attracted to one another. Love is power, because it multiplies the best we have and prevents humanity from being extinguished by their evolutionary inherited viciousness and current blind selfishness.
Love unfolds and reveals. For love, we live and die. Love is God, and God is Love. This force explains everything and gives life meaning. It is the variable we have ignored for far too long—perhaps because we are afraid of it, as it is the only energy in the universe that man has not learned to drive at will.
To give visibility to love, I made a simple substitution in my most famous equation. Instead of E=mc2, we might accept that the energy to heal the world can be obtained by multiplying love by the speed of light squared. We conclude that love is the most powerful force because it has no limits. After humanity’s failure to control the other forces of the universe that have turned against us, it is urgent that we nourish ourselves with a different kind of energy.
If we want our species to survive, if we are to find meaning in life, and if we want to save the world and every sentient being that inhabits it, love is the one and only answer. Perhaps we are not yet ready to make a "bomb of love"—a device powerful enough to entirely destroy the hate, selfishness, and greed that could devest
ate the planet.
HOWEVER, EACH INDIVIDUAL CARRIES WITHIN THEM A SMALL BUT POWERFUL GENERATOR OF LOVE WHOSE ENERGY IS
WAITING TO BE RELEASED.
When we learn to give and receive this universal energy, dear Liesel, we will have affirmed that love conquers all and can transcend everything, because love is the quintessence of life. I deeply regret not having been able to express what is in my heart, and which has been quietly beating for you all my life. Maybe it’s too late to apologize, but as time is relative, I need to tell you that I love you. Thanks to you, I have reached the ultimate answer!
Your Father,
Albert Einstein
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