I read a review of "The Year of Living Biblically" by A.J. Jacobs, an agnostic who decided to spend a year living... well... biblically. When asked what was the biggest lesson he learned, he replied, "Your behavior shapes your beliefs. If you act like a good person, you eventually become a better person. I wasn't allowed to gossip, so eventually I started to have fewer petty thoughts to gossip about. I had to help the less fortunate, so I started to become less self-absorbed."
It reminds me of a Dennis Prager quote that I've always liked which goes something like, "Your behavior shapes your thinking more than your thinking shapes your behavior."
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