“All of the great scientists, like Newton, like Einstein repeat the same thing – that the discoveries don’t come when you’re consciously looking for them. They come when for some reason you’ve let go conscious control. They come in a sudden flash, and you can receive that flash, or you can refuse to. But if you’re willing to receive it, then for that instantaneous moment of time you’re really you, but you’re not conscious in the same way you have to be later on when you look at what you saw in the flash, and then have to work out the equations to prove it…
What I think is that if we’re still around after we die, it will be more like those moments when we let go, than the way we are most of the time. It’ll be – it’ll be the self beyond the self we know.”
- A Ring of Endless Light, Madeleine L’Engle, pages 163-164
