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Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.

Alan Lightman

Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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Ability Exuberance Honor Moment Other Passion Ride Stillness
The loved one will never take his arms from where they are now, will never give back the bracelet of memories, will never journey afar from his lover, will never place himself in danger of self-sacrifice.
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Danger Fall Jealous Journey Love Memory Self Someone
People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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Content Contradictory Long People Reason World
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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Complete Different Every Reader Sense Something Way
Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
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Care Evidence Kinship Nature Oneness Strongly Suggest Tornadoes
When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes.
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Clock Crisp First Interval Invent Make Mechanical Time
No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.
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Exist God Know Nature Sense
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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Absolute Consolation Time World
I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of … shall we say, power.
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Body Fluent Time Traditional Two World
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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Book Complete Different Reader Sense Something Way
So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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Feel Hard Life Month Really Silence Two
Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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Compare Condition Consider Human Being Other Satisfy
I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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Fascinate Intersection Long Religion Science Time
The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.
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Blurry Faster Get Go Hold Move Really Reason Something Thing World
It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.
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Every Just Moment Speak Spoken Word World
You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
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Beauty Feel Grand Grander Harmony Something

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