Did you ever consider a simple but amazing fact – your tongue, though boneless has the power to break someone else’s bones without even using force?
It is said that an average working individual talks about 6 to7 hours every day and very few among them actually think very deeply about the value of what they’re talking about or its consequences.
The power of speech is as natural to us as breathing, but how many of us realize the power of our words? What we say has the power to transform things and people out there in the world. And each and every thing we say has the power to either hurt or heal.
A famous 16th century saint from India has compared the crow and the cuckoo, saying that though the cuckoo looks darker than the crow, everyone loves the cuckoo more because of it’s melodious singing; but when the crows caw , most of us disregard it.
The Bhagavad Gita (17.15) mentions that spoken words are the best when it is truthful, pleasing and beneficial. The reason why God gave us two ears and one tongue is that we listen more intently than we speak.
It is our conscious choice to decide whether we want to be sweet like the cuckoo or jarring like the crow? Do we hurt with our words? Or heal?
The comic strips © Bill Watterson
The idea and reflective essays © Abhishek & Adhiraj
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