What the Rastaman represents is positivity.
Peter ToshRead
In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the power of words and self-improvement through personal agency.
Peter Tosh's quote suggests that language and intention are foundational to existence, highlighting the divine nature of 'the word' as integral to self-identity and moral action. It also implies an ongoing commitment to continual improvement in all areas of life, suggesting that individuals have the responsibility to elevate their choices and actions.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-development.
What the Rastaman represents is positivity.
I was taught that Jesus the Son of God was a white man, and hearing black people singing, 'Lord, wash me, and I will be whiter than snow,' made me sick.
And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
I was the only one in my family to be musically inclined, and my mother loved that. It encouraged my grand aunt to find me a music teacher, because it was quite obvious music was in me.
I am good. I live good. I think good. I don't have to feel good to be good, I take my goodness wherever I go.
I have no mother here; I have a bearer. Jah is my mother, and Jah is my father.
We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a good end, might make the world a better place.
Cease being a prisoner of the body; using the secret key of Kriya, learn to escape into Spirit.
''Just think, never to be glad or disappointed. Never to like anyone and get cross at him and forgive him. Never to sleep or feel cold, never to make a mistake and have a stomach-ache and be cured from it, never to have a birthday party, drink beer, and have a bad conscience... How terrible.
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
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