Speaking, listening, and what actually passes between people — the gap between words and meaning.
The difference between a teacher and student is not that the teacher has read books or taken courses and speaks eloquently about them, but because he himself has tripped and fallen along his path. The teacher has the scars just like everybody else...
Communication is one of the most important aspects to a healthy relationship, however the ‘Silent Treatment’ is something that people do without considering the destructive results. Let’s examine what happens when one is ignored. Everyone wants ...
When your partner is curious about something and you are being evasive, that's going to set up suspicions and doubts. It implies you may be hiding something that you've done wrong. Or, you might just like to keep some secrets or, you don't want t...
There are two ways a human can communicate, with the mind and the intellect or the heart and feelings. The mind is very dangerous because it works with opinions and assumptions. The function of interpretation is very flawed because we think we kn...
Attacking words are just a knife put on the table. You must pick it up and stab yourself for those words to hurt you otherwise they are as powerless as if spoken in an unknown language.. You give the words power and thus you have the choice to le...
Each moment is a new beginning for what comes next. Hence, be careful what you say and do each moment because that will determine what comes next and, in the long term future.. Live with this awareness of the repercussions of all your words and a...
A Monologue Is One Person Talking To Themselves. A Heated Dialogue Is Two People, Talking To Themselves It is selfish to try to make someone understand what you want to say, and selfless to understand what the other person is saying, or hearing....
Everything is relative. Understanding each other depends on the principle of relativity. What is right or wrong, rich or poor, feeling good or bad, it is all relative. But there are other dimensions to relativity. Age, social class, country, cul...
A monologue is basically one person talking to themselves. A dialogue is often two people, talking to themselves. If you are having a disagreement to any degree, it is because you are taking the discussion or topic of what the other person is say...
This article is about how to increase your awareness, learning how to hold your tongue, to not say the wrong thing and, not stick your foot in your mouth. All this is achieved by removing selfish desires. You may not realize how much of your life...
We listen with intellect, interpreting words and identifying their meaning in the dictionary of our personal vocabulary. Deeper emotions and hidden meanings in spiritual matters must be felt, sensed in your body. Knowledge cannot always be convey...
Words are our main form of communication. Words have the greatest power to make us happy or sad, aggravated or elated. How can something that has no actual material reality have such a powerful effect over us emotionally and physically? Here is a ...
I have experienced too many times and have heard from so many other people about conversations that went inexplicably wrong. You may meet someone, have a conversation, even by text or email, and all of a sudden with tremendous ease and agility tha...
I saw a monument in honor of a fellow who participated in creating the first draft of the Declaration of Human Rights. He wanted to include;“You should never allow the rights of a collective society to outweigh the rights of the individual.” Tha...
Keep this in mind the next time you are about to repeat a rumour or spread gossip. One day an acquaintance ran up to Peter excitedly and said, "Do you know what I just heard about John?" "Wait a moment," Peter replied, "...
The past years have taken a trend in the concept that by changing the words, we can actually change the situation. This is clearly impossible, but yet it does work. I would like to explore how the impossible works. If there is a problem, no matte...
Changing the words to describe situations is a common concept in new age and political correctness culture. The concept is that by changing the word, the subject actually changes. That is simply not realistic since we know that all thought is in o...
The reason it is so vital to always acknowledge the source of whatever you have achieved or received is to avoid arrogance. When a person achieves anything, be it financially or spiritually, and they think they have done it on their own, they beco...
Spiritual seekers and budding entrepreneurs alike are faced with a terrible dilemma, knowing the true meaning of what is really being said. Be it a conversation or reading an inspirational or apparently humorous story, knowing the real meaning d...
There are two kinds of conversations, one with thought and the other without thought. We will not bother with anything that is without thought as that is just passing air. In conversations with thought, there are two kinds which appear similar bu...
There is so much truth to that saying, we all heard it, and now as adults, how many of us actually understand it and have it as part of our lives. But on the other hand, when a mystical teaching tells us to acquire equanimity and not be affected...