Let Your Words Be Few
Heaven is high and earth is deep; do not be hasty with your mouth, but let your words be few.
How many words did I pour into places where silence would have been enough today?
📝Reflection
Before this counsel to speak little stands the backdrop "heaven is high and earth is deep." Feel first how small human words are before the vastness of the cosmos. Laozi too said "one who knows does not speak." The more words multiply, the more mistakes and regrets multiply. To speak little is not timidity but the humility of knowing the weight of one's own words. Truly important words are usually short, and travel farthest when silence supports them. Reduce your speech, and by that much the space in your heart widens.
🌱Apply It Today
In one meeting or conversation today, say only half of what you meant to, and swallow the other half.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
