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There’s a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one

A. J. Jacobs

After a while, if you’re committed, you start to believe in the things in which you’re praying. It’s just cognitive dissonance. You can’t live a completely religious life and not start to have it sink in.
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After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There’s something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence.
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Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.
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I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
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I was what they call ‘skinny fat’ – a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.
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It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?
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I thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
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I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing – but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.
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Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.
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I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.
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I don’t believe that prayers actually change God’s mind – if there is a God – but I liked praying for people in need. It was like moral weightlifting. I tend to be self-obsessed, and it was nice to get out of my brain once in a while.
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I love to live things, so I wanted to immerse myself and get into the mindset – and sandals – of my forefathers.
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When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.
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I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action–no matter what the action is–might help you feel better.
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