Criss Jami, Healology

"Silence might be a shout for the truth. It might be the speech that someday, in its truest, most uncontaminated, unadulterated state, all will be revealed."

"Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else's simply because I know why I said what I said."

"You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself."

"I pity the man who praises God only when things go his way."

"I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty."

"Still, one can be honest yet quite mistaken."

"A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn't really mind it."

"I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further."

"Fashion is simply a guideline for style-less people to appear stylish."

"Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance."

"The consequence model, the logical one, the amoral one, the one which refuses any divine intervention, is a problem really for just the (hypothetical) logician. You see, towards God I would rather be grateful for Heaven (which I do not deserve) than angry about Hell (which I do deserve). By this the logician within must choose either atheism or theism, but he cannot possibly through good reason choose anti-theism. For his friend in this case is not at all mathematical law: the law in that 'this equation, this path will consequently direct me to a specific point'; over the alternative and the one he denies, 'God will send me wherever and do it strictly for his own sovereign amusement.' The consequence model, the former, seeks the absence of God, which orders he cannot save one from one's inevitable consequences; hence the angry anti-theist within, 'the logical one', the one who wants to be master of his own fate, can only contradict himself - I do not think it wise to be angry at math."

"What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch."

"Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your own mouth because if not, all could lose sight of those actions and deeds behind the gong of your boasting."

"Astray from a deep sleep chronic as I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I'll steal the bright light of day right away just to keep building at speeds hypersonic."

"Look for the person everyone hates, and love them."

"To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness."

"Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied."

"The hardest chore to do, and to do right, is to think. Why do you think the common man would choose labor, partially, as a distraction from his own thoughts? It is because that level of stress, he most absolutely abhors."

"Pride is born as a mountaintop on a valley, but dies as an abyss in which it is too deep and too dark to see the better."

"Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful."