sometimes even good and holy thoughts should be left unsaid. Today, they can be published and everyone can read them!

• We need to become persons who are aware of the power of words. Words shape us and form us. Words direct our attention and our energies. Words can build up and they can tear down. Even a word of truth can be destructive when it is not uttered in charity and true love.
•  of the great "Wisdom lessons" of the early monks was that sometimes even good and holy thoughts should be left unsaid. Today, they can be published and everyone can read them!

• One of the practices that all of us should undertake from time to time is actual physical silence. We need to practice NOT saying even the good thoughts that we have, NOT communicating them to anyone. Part of this practice will show us the places and the people that stimulate us to communicate. Another part of this practice will show the strength of our desire to communicate and the strength of our own will to resist that desire.

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