We did not choose to have two hands or one mouth or two eyes. Our parents did not have any say on the design of our body. But if we are to look at our body, everything comes in pairs; our eyes, nostrils, ears, our left and right brain, left and right hands and legs, left and right ventricle of the heart and so on. But right smack in the middle of our face is one organ that is singularly alone: the mouth, our tongue. From there, one can divine a particular message.
One should see twice as much as one speaks. One should think and hear twice as much as one speaks. One should work twice as much as one speaks. One should breathe twice as much as one speaks.
Yet we are all slaves of the tongue. It never rests. We hardly think before we talk. We talk even in our sleep.
There are 2 major barriers to hearing your inner self; the noise that you produce and the noise of the outside world. When you are too busy listening to yourself talk, you don't listen to others. There is too much noise outside and there is too much noise within.
The tongue, arguably, the single, is the most overworked organ in the entire body. First, we need to shut it down.
Then, we shut down the noise of the world, tracking down every single sound and telling ourselves that we do not hear it. If the word is more powerful than the sword, then every word that we speak must be of value.
Ultimately, when it flows, talk is cheap. But if we restrict it to a drip, then every drop will resound and every word reverberate.
"Silence of the heart, not only of the mouth - that too is necessary. Then you
can hear God everywhere: in the closing of the door, in the person who needs
you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, the animals - that silence
which is
wonder and praise." - Mother Teresa
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