I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
ALAN LIGHTMANThe future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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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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I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way than biologists or chemists, but you can learn something from that.
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I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I’d like to use my time more carefully.
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If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
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Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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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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A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile…But this happy sensation wears off.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
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