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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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Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.
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The Bible talks a lot about thankfulness, and I’m more thankful than I ever was. I try to concentrate on the hundreds of things that go right in a day, instead of the three or four that go wrong.
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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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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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I thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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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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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
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Behavior shapes emotions.
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It’s hard to be in a bad mood when you’re walking around looking like you’re about to play the semifinals at Wimbledon.
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Bad Mood Play Sports Walk Yourself
Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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Creation Idea Innovative Level Magic Moving Quality Technology Time TV
I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
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Garden Good Natural Positivity
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’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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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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Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It’s like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.
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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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