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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’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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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
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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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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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Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It’s not until the second year that they learn the cures.
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My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It’s far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y’all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip.
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Immunity Invitation Polite Stay System Welcome Yourself
If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they’d get along OK, but they’d both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.”
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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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Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.
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Decision Life Ourselves Power
Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that’s eating me alive.
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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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Cloud Ground Head Live Religion World
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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I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.
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Finding Gratitude Love Religion
Its sort of my job to feel good.
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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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