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Quotes about Speaking

Ecologically considered, it is not primarily our verbal statements that are “true” or “false,” but rather the kind of relations that we sustain with the rest of nature. A human community that lives in a mutually beneficial relation with the surrounding earth is a community, we might say, that lives in truth. The ways of speaking common to that community – the claims and beliefs that enable such reciprocity to perpetuate itself – are, in this important sense, true. They are in accord with a right relation between these people and their world. Statements and beliefs, meanwhile, that foster violence toward the land, ways of speaking that enable the impairment or ruination of the surrounding field of beings, can be described as false ways of speaking – ways that encourage an unsustainable relation with the encompassing earth. A civilization that relentlessly destroys the living land it inhabits is not well acquainted with truth, regardless of how many supposed facts it has amassed regarding the calculable properties of its world.

David Abram : Gaia Child
David Abram
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My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.

Adyashanti : Gaia Explorer
Adyashanti
Source: Emptiness Dancing, Page: 1
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Create your own language.

Paul Richards : Gaia Child
Paul Richards
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Sometimes it's a form of love to talk to somebody that you've nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

David Byrne
 
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It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.

Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
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'Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.'
'I'm sure I didn't mean - ' Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen interrupted her impatiently.
'That's just what I complain of!  You should have meant!  What do you suppose is the use of child without any meaning?  Even a joke should have some meaning - and a child's more important than a joke, I hope.

Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
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'Speak when you're spoken to!' The Queen sharply interrupted her.
'But if everybody obeyed that rule,' said Alice, who was always ready for a little argument, 'and if you only spoke when you were spoken to, and the other person always waited for you to begin, you see nobody would ever say anything, so that -- '
'Ridiculous!' cried the Queen.  'Why, don't you see, child -- ' here she broke off with a frown, and, after thinking for a minute, suddenly changed the subject of the conversation. 

Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
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What if a man cannot be made to say anything?

How do you learn his hidden nature?

I sit in front of him in silence,
and set up a ladder made of patience,
and if in his presence a language from beyond joy
and beyond grief begins to pour from MY chest,
I know that his soul is as deep and bright
as the star Canopus rising over Yemen.
And so when I start speaking a powerful right arm
of words sweeping down, I know HIM from what I say,
and how I say it, because there is a window open
between us, mixing the night air of our beings.

Mevlana Jelalu'ddin Rumi : Persian sufi mystic
Mevlana Rumi (1207 - 1273)
Source: Essential Rumi, Page: 31-32
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 The person in the argument doing the most talking is usually the one whose commentary is least based in fairness and truth

Jacquelene Close Moore
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Open your mouth and you're wrong.

Zen Proverb
 
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Finally, we entered Chetaube County, my imaginary birthplace, where the names of the little winding roads and minuscule mountain communities never failed to inspire me: Yardscrabble, Big Log, Upper, Middle and Lower Pigsty, Chicken Scratch, Cooterville, Felchville, Dust Rag, Dough Bag, Uranus Ridge, Big Bottom, Hooter Holler, Quickskillet, Buck Wallow, Possum Strut … We always say a picture speaks a thousand words, but isn’t the opposite equally true?

Sol Luckman
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The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.

William Blake : English poet, painter, engraver & mystic
William Blake (1757 - 1827)
 
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If no tender words are spoken, no tender hearts can be broken.

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You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;
And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.
And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.
For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

Kahlil Gibran : Lebanese mystical poet, philosopher & painter
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
Source: The Prophet: 26 poetic essays, Page: 60 (On Talking)
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

Napoleon Hill : American writer of "Think and Grow Rich"
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