'Word' Articles
Communications has a depth that most never experience and there are infinite voices but also just one voice. In hearing the one voice there is no confusion. Words understood have emotional impact even if you aren’t taking them to heart. It isn’t volume of words that is powerful. It’s thought, intent, clarity. These are the power in words. With focused intent, speaking what you mean to speak, then your words can create.
“No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.” Henry Brooks Adams
“Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.” Jean Paul Richter (German Novelist and humorist, 1763-1825)
Power of the Word
The subject is the power of the word. It isn’t the word of any doctrine or belief, but that factor of belief is a part of it. It is the creative power of speech, of articulating thought in words. Many traditions use chant in one form or another, but modern cultures seem to have lost a sense of why they ever did. There was and is a reason. They chanted in a language they already spoke for one, and often the chant was a litany in a faith they already openly embraced. Words can form a pattern of intent and… Seek More
Forms of Words
What about those that can’t speak nor hear? They will speak in body language. The mudra is as powerful as the mantra. They are both language, and the more fully you express, the more powerful the expression. Helen Keller could not see or hear. She understood and could express herself, and did quite eloquently. Your focus determines your reality, and what you articulate in any way is your focus even if only for a moment. But in fact whatever someone is talking about, in whatever way they are talking about it, tends to not be a momentary thing. Those who… Seek More
You Are Not Mind
We shape our minds when we shape the ideas we call words. In shaping the mind we shape the world as we see it, and dispose ourselves to function according to the ideas we create. Here is a strange idea. “Our mind”. Did we create mind? Are we the originator of mind? Did it not exist before humanity? Will it not exist after? So when considering mind why not consider that we partake in an aspect of reality that is beyond our narrow definition. There is a metaphysical premise that has been stated universally in one form or another across… Seek More
