Licking the Razor's Edge (2015)

TIP #03 … When tempted to speak idly, choose instead to SERVE SELFLESSLY
Finally, the most important tip of all – the choice that always bears the best of “Fruit”:
namely, setting aside our desire to superficially talk in favor of reaching out with
Meaning-full acts of simple Kindness.
Whenever you feel the urge to “babble” (for whatever reason), recognize that this urge
comes from a very reasonable fear of your ego, then thank your ego for trying to protect
you from pain. Reassure it that you are not going to stop talking forever – just for a little
while; that you are not going to be “radically Kind” for the rest of your life, just for that
one moment … and then simply go forth and do something Caring for another person.
You simply set aside your addiction for that one instant in order to go forth and Become
the very change you so wish to See.
“Our chief challenge is that we are more given to talking about doings things more than
actually doing them.” ~ inspired by J. Nehru
“Talking isn’t doing. It is a form of good deed to say well of another; and yet words are
not deeds.” ~ William Shakespeare
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