A Deeply Religious Man!

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man... I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence -- as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature."
-- Albert Einstein (The World As I See It)

This is just a fantastic way of describing true religiosity! And I can't agree more with this sentence: "Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed." It is a pity though, that among the first things most people lose, regardless of their being an atheists, agnostics or blindly religious, are seeking, wondering and marveling.

You can read an abridged version of the essay here.