Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn’t care one whit about us.
ALAN LIGHTMANA book, especially a longer book, it’s a different kind of force that pushes you through it. It’s a vision of the whole thing.
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With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice.
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But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
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And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go.
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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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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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I think once we stop asking questions like “what is the age of the universe,” or “how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level,” once we stop asking questions like that, we’re dead.
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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All writers have roots they draw from – travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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A book, especially a longer book, it’s a different kind of force that pushes you through it. It’s a vision of the whole thing.
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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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It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning.
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I would do something and let it sit for three months… just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn’t quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.
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Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?
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