Quotes by Criss Jami

Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

If youre not a smart worker, its about how hard you work double the amount from the heart; if youre not a hard worker, its about how smart you work but times two from the brain.

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, its probably because your heart is talking.

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

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

History does seem to repeat itself hence its mindboggling to still hear the avoid all negative people speeches from, of all people, supposedly important spiritual teachers. Ironically, their congregations would probably be the ones hiding their faces from the accuracies of truth speakers like Christ. Now, Christ was the complete opposite of negative, however the danger is that truth is often misunderstood as negativity by those who are constantly taught to only seek flattery.

Time and time over it is the ones who try a little too hard to be innovative rebels - and for the sheer glory of being considered innovative rebels - who then turn out not quite as innovative or as rebellious as they would like to think they are.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

The weather is natures disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, natures disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.

People will seek the ends of the galaxy to avoid that which they need most.

Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a mans true worth.

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.

God is not some lesser employee, as many try to make Him out to be: rather He is the ultimate Treasure. He works in a man; He works on a man; He works through a man; He works around a man. Know that He does far more than simply work for a man. And yet, even as He Himself needs no one else, everyone else is ever in need of Him.

Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.

God writes love and speaks poetry.

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.

If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, Speak out. Be heard. On the contrary, a breath of fresh air would be something like: Silence, think for at least 15 minutes, and then maybe speak out.

It turns out that the men who ultimately, who unpretentiously value peace are willing to sacrifice their own peace of mind in order to render it. The question is, Who, between opposing forces, would do such a thing? It seems only theoretical albeit true that men who accept an objective rather than subjective moral standard are, in a general sense, more capable of making such sacrifices for the sake of peace.

Peace is more of an internal settlement rather than what is visible on the external.