Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that’s eating me alive.
A. J. JACOBSAfter 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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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
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I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
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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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Since I was relatively new to the Bible, I was surprised by the Old Testament God. He’s wrathful, but at other times, He’s incredibly compassionate. He’s not a one-dimensional figure at all.
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One of the interesting things to me is that God grows throughout the Old Testament. He evolves, sort of matures, and becomes kinder.
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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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I thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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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’m addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there’s so damn much about myself to improve.
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Scrabble – The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.
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The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one.
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I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.
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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’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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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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