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Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present,…
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and…
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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…
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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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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There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost…
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In…
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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not…
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and…
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We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or…
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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…
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Peace is a culture that we create by putting it in the curriculum for young people, through creating this next generation where…
— Craig Kielburger
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Who are we, this government or this country, to redefine the term marriage that has meant one man and one woman across…
— Unknown Author
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And this is why studying the history of psi is important. People have been reporting these phenomena for millennia and studying them for…
— Dean Radin
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You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space…
— Martin Parr
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Perhaps the single most powerful event facing humanity today is a great awakening on a planetary scale that has been millennia in…
— Ashok Gangadean
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The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people…
— John Ortberg
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Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child…
— Alan Lightman
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I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I…
— Jonathan Haidt
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Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted…
— Howard Gardner
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