"I had a dre-am, and I met with a king. I sold crystal and crossed the desert. And, because the tribes declared war, I went to the well, seeking the alchemist. So, I love you be-cause the entire universe conspired to help me find you."
"You can check any Chinese dictionary, there's no word for romance. We say 'Lo Man', copying the English pronunciation. What the fuck use was a word like romance to me anyway? There wasn't much of it about in China, and Beijing was the least romantic place in the whole universe. 'Eat first, talk later,' as old people say."
Someone I loved very much said once to me there is no parallel universe; there is no 'what could have been if only!' How I wish there was.
Instead of a distinct supernatural being suddenly breaking through the clouds to create the world, God, Liberals said, had been working for ages through natural law, slowly building the universe as we find it today until human beings developed an awareness of their spiritual selves. Most liberals agreed with the poet who said, “Some call it evolution, and others call it God.”
The universe is transformation: life is opinion.
This sudden access to the mysteries of the universe seemed to magnify the role of human reason. If the universe is a smooth-running machine with all its parts coordinated by one grand design, then we only have to think clearly to find life’s meaning and true happiness. This fundamental idea, that we have the ability to find the truth by the use of our senses and reason, gave rise to the label Age of Reason.