An attempt in Rekindling lost Intuition

"Still there are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments, one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal; the unfathomable life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny, only being"- Albert Einstein

Reading the above my memories jolted me to my much younger self, when I was an adolescent and young adult. I remember I wrote in my diary about experiencing occasional moments of "just being" which spurred me on to read literature that shed light on it. I remember reading Toltstoy, Rabindranath Tagore and Bertrand Russell to search their views on life and religion. Along the way however, this metaphysical quest fizzled out and any remaining ember extinguished once I pursued a finance qualification and career.

During this commitment free lockdown period I availed myself to exploring Ajahn Sumedho's words on intuitive awareness. His suggests that consciousness or awareness is not personal ie, not within our brain or body but that our body and mind is within this consciousness and for that matter everyone of us and even the universe is within this same consciousness. This aligns with Einstein calling it man's optical delusion of his consciousness when man experiences himself as something separate from the rest. In my need to understand a bit more of where Einstein is coming from I tried to read up a bit on his theory of general relativity which I believe leads him to the above opinion. However, it is almost impossible for me to comprehend. So I turned to a e-book "Albert Einstein and Relativity for Kids" to try and understand a bit and this is what I learn for the time being.

"Time is relative ie. time appeared to be different from 2 different frames of reference. As an object speeds up, its internal clock appears to slow down relative to an observer at rest"- This leads me to think about what Einstein said about "A human being is a part of the whole, called by us 'Universe', a part limited in time and space". I imagine our limited time in this life on planet earth as fleeting relative to something beyond this 'limited space', given how fast distant galaxies in the universe are moving relative to us.

Still this is a very hard subject for me to grasp and I am still in the dark where Einstein is coming from. However, Ajahn Sumedho has cautioned that awareness of this universal consciousness is an intuitive endeavour. I am just hoping to find some cinders of wisdom through a 2 pronged approach, from what a high IQ physicist is driving at and from a meditative perspective.

I guess this is an attempt to rekindle wisdom or intuition long lost.