833 Quotes About Speech

When one does ‘Everywhere Adjust’, one is said to have completely attained the talk of the Vitrags (The Enlightened Ones).

The world will not improve through beating, scolding or contempt (irritated). It will improve when one improves himself and show the world how it can be done. As much as one speaks, it is all madness.

Whatever is being spoken by me, it is not ‘I’ (the true self) who is speaking it. It is the “original tape record” that is speaking. Not even for a second, do I become the owner of this speech. That is why solutions for any problem becomes possible.

Ownership of speech is the greatest ego. Ownership of the body prevails naturally, but the main self prevails in speech.

No one in this world can imitate that which is still (acchad – the Pure Soul, Self). That which can be imitated is all unsteady (chanchad, the non-Self). The whole world’s worship is of that which is unsteady (unstill) - the relative. That is why this speech can be imitated (reproduced) through the ‘tape record’. Speech is chanchad (unstill). It can never have the attributes of the Soul – The Still.

I swear that white folks need to just shut the hell up sometimes. Y'all make it hard for everybody.

...through our art to battle against fear, self-centeredness and exclusivity of our predominately narcissistic culture, and through our craft to cultivate a more empathetic and understanding society by revealing intimate truths that serve as a forceful reminder to folks that, when they feel broken and afraid and tired, they are not alone. We are united in that we are all human beings, and we are all together on this horrible, painful, joyous, exciting, and mysterious ride that is being alive.

His voice was a deep and quiet rumble. It made me think of a freshly tuned tractor engine.. He didn't sound illiterate, but he didn't sound educated. In his speech as in so many other things, he was a mystery. Mostly it was his eyes that troubled me - a kind of peaceful absence in them, as if he were floating far, far away.

No, I mean really listen. Here's a story, and you don't have to visit manyhouses to find it. One person is talking,the other one is not really listening.someone can look like they are but they'reactually thinking about something they want to say, or their minds are justwandering. Or they're looking at thatlittle box people hold in their hands thesedays. And people get discouraged, so theyquit trying. And the very quiet people,you may have noticed, are often the sadpeople.