Criss Jami Quotes - Page 13

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• An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

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  Water, Abuse, Overindulgence

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.122, Criss Jami

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• It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it work. It's passion. A poet's sense of lyrical accomplishment is then his food and water, his means of survival.

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  Fun, Passion, Writing

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.58, Criss Jami

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• Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself.

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  Different, Generations, Next

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

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• Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see.

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  Fear, Eye, Self

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.101, Criss Jami

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• Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense.

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  Judging, Persons, Positively

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.94, Criss Jami

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• Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive.

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  Beautiful, Mistake, Mean

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.99, Criss Jami

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• After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.

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  Mouths, Action, Realizing

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.117, Criss Jami

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• There is such a thing as righteous judgment, but it seems that lately the word 'judgment' has become a curse word, period. The issue isn't whether or not we're insightful enough to avoid being judgmental, but whether or not we're secure enough to accept being judged. It is inevitable for every conscious human being to judge. It may spring from insight and experience and sincerity, and in such cases, it is quite beneficial on the receiving end.

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  Spring, Issues, Judging

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.63, Criss Jami

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• I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are with it, the less likely you are to have a breakdown when it occurs. You become more reflective of its purpose, you understand God's reason for it, and are then able to make the best of everything that you are handed. The darkness is only frightening after constant sunshine.

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  Fear, Writing, Adversity

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.110, 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 think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.

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  Thinking, Judging, Humanity

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.118, Criss Jami

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• One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer 'no' time and time again, so he turns to and cultivates, monopolizes in his one talent which others cannot possibly subdue. Then, beyond the crowds of criticism and rejection, the right people recognize his talent - among them he finds his stage.

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  Bullying, People, Rejection

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.131, Criss Jami

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• Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.

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  Ambition, Men, Smell

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.63, Criss Jami

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• When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.

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  Men, Trying, Energy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.116, Criss Jami

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• Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.

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  Cosmos, Genius, World

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.98, Criss Jami

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• Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.

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  Air, Would Be, Strange

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.99, Criss Jami

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• The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

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  Pain, Men, Tragedy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.1, Criss Jami

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• How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Believe

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.115, Criss Jami

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• Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

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  Men, Idols

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.1, Criss Jami

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• I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.

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  People, Feel Good, Enemy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.111, Criss Jami

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• It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent. On the contrary, teachings can be either taken or dismissed; whereas voting is the only thing the average person can do to force everyone to live how they would prefer. A simple vote is among the largest yet most acceptable forms of bigotry, and that is because people play the card only when they feel that in doing so it conveniences themselves.

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  Strong, Teaching, Taken

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.110, 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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• Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.

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  Running, Men, Safety

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.88, 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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