We don’t have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think about where we are going, who we are, what’s important.
ALAN LIGHTMANWith a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.
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I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America.
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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back?
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Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn’t care one whit about us.
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Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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Everyone shares the same fate.
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A world with one month is a world of equality.
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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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That’s the fine balance of a fiction writer…to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.
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You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
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And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself.
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At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.
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