Quotes from Criss Jami, Healology

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.

When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music.

To the short-sighted, through the fog, God must be a monster.

I'm always talking to God about whether or not he exists - that's how I know I'm a theist.

I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty.

The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.

To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.

Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight.

Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

The disruption of science is one which abandons the method and seeks to conquer grounds outside its territory. It is not at all religion but this pseudo-science that is the enemy of science.

If you don't like the solution, change the problem.

A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.

If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.

To claim that one can never live a positive life with a negative mind is a very negative claim to make!

While there may be various tips, pointers, ingredients, and strategies to success, there is no one formula that always guarantees it other than to keep learning from failure itself.

Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression.

There are no keys to success - only tools.

For the case that one thinks he has plateaued in life, God has already set yet another peak for him to reach: and a much more challenging peak than his own, one that which is to serve others.

An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.