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.
ALAN LIGHTMANIt’s the journeyto get there. It’s a way of thinking and it’s an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it.
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For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness.
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Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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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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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer – in the form of a review or something.
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Every essay – the subject matter of every essay – is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist is writing about his or her view of the world.
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In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.
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Continents of memory had been lost.
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We walk from room to room, look into the room that is lit, the present moment, then walk on. We do not know the rooms ahead, but we know we cannot change them. We are spectators of our lives.
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They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter – the mother and father.
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The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
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Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?
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For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
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