I thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
A. J. JACOBSI was what they call ‘skinny fat’ – a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It’s like, it’s really bad. It’s like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.
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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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How do you gag the voice in your head that says, ‘You don’t have to [do it] today. There’s always tomorrow.’?
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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 know that you should always say yes to adventures or you’ll lead a very dull life.
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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
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I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.
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I’ve never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
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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 grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.
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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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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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Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.
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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
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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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