Quotes by Criss Jami

It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path - up or down - meaning it isnt 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

It is sometimes but the mere hope for enjoyment that allows one to enjoy something, even when he is not really enjoying it at the moment.

A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesnt really mind it.

What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-peoples-visions-for-the-future.

Many of us are literally prone to believing the most blatantly nonsensical untruths. There are some opinions and some beliefs so incredibly moronic, you actually feel stupid for not believing them; and its probably because in giving the benefit of the doubt you self-doubt, you convince yourself into lame passivity and blind acceptance, you tell yourself, Maybe Im just missing something here.

I am not convinced of the argument, I want to believe; it is only those awful Christians I hate. They get in the way of my belief. If you hate Christians more than you love Christ, you do not love Christ. It comes to mind the question, If you do not love your brother or sister whom you have seen, how can you love God whom you have not seen?

You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do...and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.

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.

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

You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that wont do a thing unless you believe it yourself.

Naturally, I always place my word over anyone elses simply because I know why I said what I said.