The Secret Is Space: Grounded For FIVE: And Richard Simmons On Food

There is a split second before acting, when time almost slows down, and we can recall who we want to be.

“The me that wants to lose 10 lb. isn’t the only me.”

That’s Sam Harris using diet as an analogy for moral ethics.

There’s the me that wants to eat Doritos every night. The me that wants pancakes and donuts every morning. The me who wonders why we don’t just stop for a burger every time hunger strikes.

It doesn’t end there.

There’s the me who wants to stop listening when someone doesn’t agree. The me that wants to rebel when someone criticizes. The me that only thinks of, well, me.

There are so many versions of “me” that I struggle to keep up. Conflicting agitations, ignorances, and biases that survive within the same container I call “self.”

That’s what Paul was talking about in Romans seven.

“I do not understand what I…