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• Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.

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  Thinking, Train Of Thought, Track

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.22, Criss Jami

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• Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

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  Running, Men, Long

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.93, Criss Jami

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• If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, 'Speak out. Be heard.' On the contrary, a breath of fresh air would be something like: 'Silence, think for at least 15 minutes, and then maybe speak out.

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  Thinking, Air, Speaks Out

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.55, Criss Jami

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• If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.

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  Unconditional Love, Love Is, Understanding

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.108, Criss Jami

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• Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

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  Character, Angel, Writing

  Criss Jami (2011). “Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile”, p.158, Criss Jami

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• It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.

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  World, Definitions, Definition Of Love

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.126, Criss Jami

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• The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

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  People, Mad, Guessing

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.30, Criss Jami

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• Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

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  Technology, Connections, Information

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.32, Criss Jami

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• Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

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  People, Sometimes, Silent

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.64, Criss Jami

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• One of the bigger mistakes of our time, I suppose, was preaching the demonization of all judgment without teaching how to judge righteously. We now live in an age where, apart from the inability to bear even good judgment when it so passes by, still everyone, inevitably, has a viral opinion (judgment) about everything and everyone, but little skill in good judgment as its verification or harness.

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  Mistake, Teaching, Skills

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.37, Criss Jami

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• The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.

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  Spiritual, Believe, Men

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.37, Criss Jami

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

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  Believe, Past, Generations

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.38, Criss Jami

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• We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

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  Our Generation, Generations

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.31, Criss Jami

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• I have a thing for things that last.

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  Lasts

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.2, Criss Jami

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• You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone.

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  Mean, Thinking, Long

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.3, Criss Jami

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• If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as though it increases. I must be honest about such strange feelings: I now want to be thought unfaithful about as much as a bougie aristocrat wants to be thought a hobo.

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  Christian, Song, Numbers

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• Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

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  Sports, Competition, Stuff

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.2, Criss Jami

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• People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.

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  Self, Long, People

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.2, Criss Jami

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• One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.

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  Christian, Want, Awful

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.2, Criss Jami

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• The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi.

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  Real, Men, Sea

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.2, Criss Jami

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• Music is not my life. My life is music.

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  Life Is, Music Is

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.3, Criss Jami

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• The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

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  Laughing, Comedian, Hardest

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.3, Criss Jami

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• The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.

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  Blessed, May, Sound

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.66, Criss Jami

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• It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

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  Flying, Over You, Doubt

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.9, Criss Jami

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• The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it.

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  Rocks, Crowds, Stereotype

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.6, Criss Jami

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