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Which might be why when I looked at the earliest accounts we have of that night, what struck me even more than what happened was what did not happen.
So the man who fled down the mountain that night trembled not with joy but with a stark, primordial fear.
Yet whether you're a rationalist or a mystic, whether you think the words Muhammad heard that night came from inside himself or from outside, what's clear is that he did experience them, and that he did so with a force that would shatter his sense of himself and his world and transform this otherwise modest man into a radical advocate for social and economic justice.
They don't have to struggle for it like Jacob wrestling through the night with the angel, or like Jesus in his 40 days and nights in the wilderness, or like Muhammad, not only that night on the mountain, but throughout his years as a prophet, with the Koran constantly urging him not to despair, and condemning those who most loudly proclaim that they know everything there is to know and that they and they alone are right.
She came up to me one night, and she just said, 'Dad, you can't let the kids die.'"
Now, looking back on that night, I'd love so desperately to believe that I treated that woman on that night with the same empathy and compassion I'd shown the 27-year-old newlywed who came to the E.R. three nights earlier with lower back pain that turned out to be advanced pancreatic cancer.
You see, unlike the woman the night before, this woman had type 2 diabetes.
Sometimes I think back to that night in the E.R. seven years ago.
"Accounting night at the improv."
There were the wooden boards on the sides of the hut where he and his father and his brother had slept at night.
There's an old joke about a cop who's walking his beat in the middle of the night, and he comes across a guy under a street lamp who's looking at the ground and moving from side to side, and the cop asks him what he's doing.
So that night, we began to dream, and we thought, perhaps the most amazing tool that man's created is the Internet, and what would happen if we could somehow find new interfaces, visual-audio interfaces that would allow these remarkable sentient beings that we share the planet with access?
During the day, they have a beautiful, large outdoor habitat, and at night, they come into this habitat, into their night quarters, where they can have a climate-controlled and secure environment to sleep in.
When we were rehearsing last night, he had fun watching the elephants.
They're not really used to having cameras here at 8 o'clock at night.
In the privacy of my room, covered in sawdust, I would saw, trim and polish wood all night long until a bow took shape.
What keeps you up at night?
Almost anything can cause the occasional restless night - a snoring partner, physical pain, or emotional distress.
This clock, or circadian rhythm, is also sensitive to light, so avoid bright lights at night to help tell your body that it’s time for sleep.
She acquired a nurse's uniform, and she snuck in every night to sit by my side.
I remember, for example, sitting up one night on guard outside my parents' room to protect them from what I thought was a genuine threat from the voices.
And they put on an opera all night long.
She said, "Everything is fine, but once, I spent a whole night asking and trying to translate the meaning of the word 'toqborni' for him."
The poor woman had mistakenly told him "toqborni," and then spent the whole night trying to explain it to him.
She said to me, "He listens to Fairuz with me, and one night, I tried to translate for him so he can feel what I feel when I listen to Fairuz."
And I went home to my wife that night and she wanted to know why I had another woman's big, massive, big wedding ring on my finger.
Well, of course, we use Thomas Edison's light bulb to invade the night, and we occupied the dark, and in the process of this occupation, we've treated sleep as an illness, almost.
Essentially, all the stuff we've burned up during the day, we restore, we replace, we rebuild during the night.
If you compare an individual who has slept at night, or stayed awake and hasn't moved very much, the energy saving of sleeping is about 110 calories a night.
What's turned out to be really exciting is that our ability to come up with novel solutions to complex problems is hugely enhanced by a night of sleep.
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