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  On Speech and Silence - a compilation
  
  
  He who speaks much cannot be truthful.
  
  Every useless word spoken adds a brick in the barrier with the Soul.
  
  He who has mastered the tongue has mastered all.
  
  Mastery of tongue (outer speech)
  Mastery of mind (inner speech)
  is the key to freedom.
  
  To master the tongue is to master the lower nature.
  
  Watch then - what you think and what you speak.
  
  
  Make a resolution every day just for this day to be
• watchful and careful of what is spoken and thought
• about.
  
  
  Mastery over mind and tongue will improve physical
• health because partly there is no loss of nervous
• energy through idle speech; partly there would not
• constantly arise the little karmic debts of wrong speech.
  
  
  
• One cannot climb up the spiritual ladder
  furthur till one has mastered one's tongue.
  
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  Before one speaks stop to think:
• is it kind? helpful? the truth?
  and then speak
  
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  Before great truths which r secrets r
• entrusted unto one's care one must
• demonstrate that :
• "I CAN HOLD MY TONGUE"
  
• The next step up the ladder can be climbed
• only when one has mastered one's mind.
• In simple everyday situations are we thus tested
• for spiritual ripeness.
• A promise is a promise and is a sacred thing.
• Talkative people fritter away their energy
• which ought to be employed in useful action.
• " TO KNOW, TO DARE, TO WILL AND TO BE SILENT. "

• "We must know the truths of Nature and dare to
• use them. To use the Powers that become ours on
• this Path we must have a strong will that can control
• ourselves too. Then when these things are done we
• must know enough to be silent about them."
• We have all to learn by repeated dissapointments that we
• cannot help a man along the way which he is not yet ready
• to tread. Thus we become much quieter.

• Small Desires.
• Never wish to shine or to appear clever.
• Have no desire to speak unless you are
• quite sure that what you wish to say is
• true, kind, and helpful. This will make you
• slow in conversation. Gradually you will
• find you talk less and that will be a good thing.