I think for most of us there are many. One of the first things that changed me was when I was nervous about a test and I had intentions to cheat. I set everything up so that I could cheat if I needed to. In the end I didn’t cheat because really I had studied well but I got caught anyways. I was around six or seven. I never even thought about cheating ever again. I wasn’t religious at the time but I knew that G-d was watching me and I’d better not steal or cheat or even think about it because I’d certainly get into trouble. Now that I’m religious I realise that when I leave the world I’ll have to give an accounting for all of the times that I even thought about doing bad things and so I have to be occupied with the kinds of things that G-d wants me to do so that I won’t be embarrassed when I get up there. When I wasn’t religious I wasn’t thinking about the conversation with G-d.
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