Criss Jami, Healology
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"If you assume that the new - and simply because it's new - is always to be better than the old, chances are you've never known anything valuable."
"Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage."
"Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice."
"Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity."
"Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness."
"Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren't so bad once you sit down and have an honest, one-on-one conversation with them, once, with an open heart, you listen to their explanations as to why they act the way they act, or say what they say, or do what they do."
"I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side."
"I'm always talking to God about whether or not he exists - that's how I know I'm a theist."
"There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists."
"If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it."
"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. Perhaps that is a little strange, yes, but in all honesty, I now want to be thought unfaithful about as much as a smug aristocrat wants to be thought a hobo."
"All knowledge meets an end at the question '...Why?"
"Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don't blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion."
"Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life' banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'."
"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."
"Because you're always learning, the chief lesson remains: you still know nothing."
"It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished."
"Law without reason is criminal."
"Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction."
"Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christianity: 'If it's not about Christ, it's not about life."
"Every exceptional bias against Christianity I find to be evidence for its validity."
"Without Christ a people may always have the freedom to do, but never the power to complete."
"If I were to believe in God enough to call him a murderer, then I might also believe enough that he, as a spirit, exists beyond death; and therefore only he could do it righteously. For the physical being kills a man and hatefully sends him away, whereas God, the spiritual being, kills a man and lovingly draws him nigh."
"The extent of creativity to which I admire in an individual is his ability to be richly creative while still, in a way, telling the truth. It is the fool who creates only his own lies, and the bore who simply repeats what he is told."
"Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible."