Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
ALAN LIGHTMANA world with one month is a world of equality.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
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As I understand it, a universe is a … well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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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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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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Most people have learned to live in the moment.
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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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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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In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
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To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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I would bet most people don’t have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don’t have to be sitting, they can be walking.
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It’s a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.
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