The only honorable, desirable kind of fear that shouldn't be feared is the fear of harm on a loved one. It's the kind of fear that leads to self-sacrifice and the kind of fear where you would truly jump in front of a bus to save another. Criss Jami More Quotes by Criss Jami More Quotes From Criss Jami The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms. Criss Jami formsoulideas Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective. Criss Jami adjectivesgeniuspeople With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are. Criss Jami too-muchpridemen Joy, like love, is an impenetrable, God-given state of being. The distinctions between joy and happiness and love and affection are important ones under the notion that happiness is an 'iffy' emotion, a highly dependent feeling both aroused and destroyed by external conditions apart from God. And the distinction between love and affection is parallel to such. Criss Jami like-lovejoylove-is We have better relationships with those who truly seek us rather than those sitting on the couch watching us move mountains trying to prove ourselves. Criss Jami mountaintryingmoving An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball. Criss Jami logicperspectivedifferent Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again. Criss Jami foolskillslooks God's relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that God can lift him up. Hence it is utterly impossible to truly diminish his glory. Criss Jami doemenorder If truth is like the terrain, are we the generation who sees it as one who has worn shoes all his life or one who has never worn shoes? Yet still, even if the walk starts out as painful, the experience may be well worth it. Criss Jami shoesgenerationsmay You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself. Criss Jami believecomplimentworld I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go. Criss Jami take-meenjoyart Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach. Criss Jami vacationmindart The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love. Criss Jami testsreallove-is I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity. Criss Jami judginghumanitythinking Honesty is not the same as truth. That is the obstacle of the notion of relative truths. I would like to put my trust in the lunatic. He is the one least concerned of what I think of him, the mark of an honest man. I can always depend on him to be completely honest in what he thinks and feels, about anything, no matter the consequences laid before him, however with no course of rationale, I cannot necessarily take his word for even the well-being of him in his own reality. Criss Jami honestymenreality A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way. Criss Jami ambitionpeopleway Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness. Criss Jami vicesadvicemen When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough. Criss Jami energytryingmen There is such a thing as righteous judgment, but it seems that lately the word 'judgment' has become a curse word, period. The issue isn't whether or not we're insightful enough to avoid being judgmental, but whether or not we're secure enough to accept being judged. It is inevitable for every conscious human being to judge. It may spring from insight and experience and sincerity, and in such cases, it is quite beneficial on the receiving end. Criss Jami issuesjudgingspring I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy. Criss Jami feel-goodpeopleenemy
