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.
A. J. JACOBSI 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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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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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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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 thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It’s like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.
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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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Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.
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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that’s eating me alive.
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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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Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.
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Behavior shapes emotions.
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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 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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My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it’ll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It’s like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.
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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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