Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.
Each time is true, but the truths are not the same. - Alan Lightman
Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
- Alan Lightman
We often do not see what we do not expect to see. - Alan Lightman
We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie… - Alan Lightman
I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie…
While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. - Alan Lightman
While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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 Lightman
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.
Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on … - Alan Lightman
Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on …
One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an ins… - Alan Lightman
One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an ins…
We've lost our way, we have lost our centeredness. We don't have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think… - Alan Lightman
We've lost our way, we have lost our centeredness. We don't have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think…
Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Othe… - Alan Lightman
Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Othe…
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