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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.

Alan Lightman

Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
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Care Evidence Kinship Nature Oneness Strongly Suggest Tornadoes
The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past.
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Action Argument Consequence Future Need Uncertain
For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.
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Dull Habit Memory Only Passion Physical
It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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Impulse Sincerity World
I’m humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influence on me.
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Connect Enormous Grateful Humble Kafka Way
Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession.
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Church Clock Divide Increment March Month Succession Tower
I should have written books instead of reading them.
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Book Instead Read Should Write
Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.
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Different Life Point Reader Singer Something
Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order.
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Law Nature Order
And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
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Become Eventually Go Machine Mindless Unplug
Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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Essay Population Raed Serious Small Thinker Writer
There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.
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Alpha Another Brain Clock Heart Mysterious Ruthless Tick Wave
The exploding star of A.D. 1054, the Crab Nebula, was sighted and documented by the Chinese, but nowhere mentioned in the West, where the Aristotelian notion of the immortality of stars still held sway.
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Document Explode Held Immortality Mentioned Slight
We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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Centeredness Lost Way
There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race.
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Difference Important Lose Preserve Same Something
The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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Being Belief Disbelief Faith Matter

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