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• What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future.

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  Men, People, Vision

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• Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

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  Mind, Ecstasy, Absurdity

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.126, 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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• The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

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  Patience, Men, Cookies

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.61, Criss Jami

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• The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear.

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  Ears, Want, Hearing

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.9, 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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• A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.

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  Outcast, Young, Feels

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.67, Criss Jami

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• Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece may be the master because of its iridescence; it may display a hundred different perspectives through his single face.

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  Heart, Artist, Perspective

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.61, Criss Jami

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• The faithful man perceives nothing less than opportunity in difficulties. Flowing through his spine, faith and courage work together: Such a man does not fear losing his life, thus he will risk losing it at times in order to empower it. By this he actually values his life more than the man who fears losing his life. It is much like leaping from a window in order to avoid a fire yet in that most crucial moment knowing that God will appear to catch you.

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  Fear, Opportunity, Men

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

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• An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.

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  Perspective, Different, Logic

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.48, Criss Jami

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• The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.

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  Ambition, Long, Pay

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.121, Criss Jami

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• Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

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  Heart, People, Trustworthiness

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.26, Criss Jami

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• With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

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  Pride, Men, Too Much

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

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• Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

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  Adversity, Knowing, Manifestation

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.112, Criss Jami

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• I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.

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  Fear, Fire, People

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.57, Criss Jami

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• A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.

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  Fear, Weakness

  Criss Jami (2011). “Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile”, p.38, Criss Jami

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• A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.

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  Numbers, Scientist, Boast

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.23, 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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• I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.

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  Skills, Proud, Feels

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.32, Criss Jami

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• A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.

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  Men, Loving Others, Feels

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.19, Criss Jami

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• In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on.

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  Fear, Eye, Technology

  Criss Jami (2012). “Venus in Arms”, p.22, 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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• When we look for success, it should be for the sole purpose of boasting sincerely in Christ. There's no other reason for it. Success is only worth it when the more intense it gets for you, the more you find yourself bragging for his glory rather than your own.

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  Finding Yourself, Looks, Purpose

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.49, Criss Jami

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• What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.

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  Stress, Hard Work, Energy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.119, Criss Jami

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• My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

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  Men, Ideas, Perfection

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.42, Criss Jami

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