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
What this quote means
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.
Themes
WordJahSelf-ImprovementLifePower
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about self-development.
More from Peter Tosh
All quotes →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.
Peter ToshRead
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.
Peter ToshRead
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.
Peter ToshRead
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.
Peter ToshRead
I have no mother here; I have a bearer. Jah is my mother, and Jah is my father.
Peter ToshRead
Similar quotes
If we want to save the world, we must have a plan. But no plan will work unless we meditate.
Dalai LamaRead
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
William WordsworthRead
Be careful, therefore, to take part only in the one Eucharist; for there is only one Flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ and one cup to unite us with His Blood.
Ignatius Of AntiochRead
Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence
Hermann HesseRead
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Albert EinsteinRead
Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks.
Teresa Of AvilaRead