Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!
Criss JamiWhenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.
Criss JamiWhen good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.
Criss JamiThe challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation.
Criss Jami