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It’s a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.

Alan Lightman

Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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Clarity Right See Wrong
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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Body Mechanical Time World
Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.
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Decision Event Glance Happen Lose Occur Reality
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
Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?
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Anything Cloud Evaporate Ocean Pure Rain Replenishing
There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
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Ay Cultural Different Diversity Look Valuable World
We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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Always Become Disembodied Nowhere Somewhere
Writers are a loosely knit community – community is an overstated word. Writers don’t see each other very much.
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Community Lose Overstate Word Writer
And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can’t really depend upon what you’ve done with previous books.
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Book Course Depend Done Frighten Make Previous
For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling of shared connection with other living things, a desire to help people less fortunate than ourselves.
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Belief Include Larger Ourselves Spirituality Thing
Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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Chaos Commitment Consider Contradictory Hold People Word
The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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Brood Children Father Monogamous Mother Osprey Summer Through Watch
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
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
I would bet most people don’t have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don’t have to be sitting, they can be walking.
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Down Maybe Minute People Sit Think
In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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Each Moment Music World

It’s a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.

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