Criss Jami, Killosophy

"Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different."

"I will admit that we as young rebels always wanted fundamentalists to understand our take on their religion, but rarely, if ever, the other way around. The fundamentalists are the real artists. If you saw only a masterpiece of an original painting and someone threw a splash of red across it saying that their version is better, you would be offended too."

"Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before."

"One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find."

"It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path - up or down - meaning it isn't always a fruitless path. One is forgotten, but the other is glorified. To be what they call 'middle-of-the-road' in most cases just means you have a hard time figuring out who between options is dumber. So quite often those who refused to decide were, after all, the bold individuals, the influential ones, the creative ones, those who snatched their own authority."

"When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs."

"Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe."

"Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities."

"The most fragile, unhappy people destine themselves to live lives of constantly reminding themselves to be happy."

"The factory of love encompasses all, but on some days, does it seem to be one of suffocation, squeezing its target too tightly? And on other days not tight enough? Or maybe that is the breath of a living love knowing when to protect, when to release, and when to protect again. For we are the products of an active love - the Father the creator, the Son the perfecter, the Spirit the supervisor - but just like in a factory, to deny the process is to ultimately create a defect of oneself."

"When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?"

"It is ironic that constructive thinkers are often misunderstood as negative, as they differ from those longing for positivity: constructive thinkers have been conditioned to find positive in negative rather than suffering from the negative in negative. Or as Paul the Apostle wrote, 'I have learned the secret to contentment in any and every circumstance.' He was right. Indeed the Lord is our strength, especially under the commandment to love one another. Otherwise we are nothing and easily thrown about by both our own and other people's mind control in a painful, mental, physical desperation to run from every thought, every thing, and every one not seeming so positive or immediately beneficial to us."

"The most important part of discernment is pinpointing the forces to be reckoned with, both the constructive and destructive."

"The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag."

"I'm not offended until you think I'm offended."

"I have a thing for things that last."

"To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features."

"The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you're self-centered, self-projection is all you can imagine one can do."

"God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think."

"The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity."