Nonduality: A Scientific Perspective...

What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.
Albert Einstein
That eternal and infinite being we call God or Nature, acts from the same necessity from which it exists.
Spinoza
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe.
Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seems to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.
Albert Einstein
The spirit of the Lord, indeed, fills the whole world, and that which holds all things together knows ever word that is said.
Book of Wisdom
There is that in me-I do not know what it is-
But I know it is in me
Walt Whitman
Truly, I have attained nothing from total enlightenment.
Buddha
Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing
Shakespeare
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise
Without being wise
For it is to think that we know
What we do not know
Socrates
They see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws upon the opposite wall of the cave. To them the truth would be literally nothing more than the shadows of the images. See what will naturally follow if the prisoners are released and disabused of their error. See the reality of which in his former state he had seen the shadows; and then conceive some one saying to him, that what he saw before was an illusion. His eye is turned towards more real existence, he has a clearer vision. The prison is the world of sight, the light of the fire is the Source, and you will not misapprehend me if you interpret the journey upwards to be the ascent of the soul into the world of intellect.
Wouldn't he remember his first home, what passed for wisdom there, and his fellow prisoners, and consider himself happy and them pitiable? And wouldn't he disdain whatever honors, praises, and prizes were awarded there to the ones who guessed best which shadows followed which? Were he to return, wouldn't he be rather bad at their game, no longer being accustomed to the darkness?
In the world of knowledge the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with an effort. When seen, its also inferred to be the universal author of all things beautiful and right, parent of light and of the lord of light in this visible world.
They are wrong when they say that they can put knowledge into the soul which was not there before, like sight into blind eyes. Our argument shows that the power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already; and that just as the eye was unable to turn from darkness to light without the whole body, so too the instrument of knowledge can only by the movement of the whole soul be turned from the world of becoming into that of being.
Plato
That eternal and infinite being we call God or Nature, acts from the same necessity from which it exists.
Spinoza