Speaking Being
Sometimes we assume it is through the inner commentary that we know the world. Actually, that inner speech does not know the world at all. It is the inner speech that spins the delusions that cause suffering. Inner speech causes us to be angry with our enemies and to form dangerous attachments to our loved ones.
Brahm • Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond: A Meditator's Handbook
Our anxiety results not just from having to face the other person, but from having to face ourselves. The conversation has the potential to disrupt our sense of who we are in the world, or to highlight what we hope we are but fear we are not.
Roger Fisher • Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
interviewing people about their lives as a way to understand how they developed and refined their sense of self.
Bruce Feiler • Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
We are naturally drawn to composed people because there’s an old truth that where we speak from we speak to. If you speak from a collapsed place in yourself – you speak to that place in others. If you speak from a place of posturing in you – you will hit that place in others. Neither of those places feel at ease in people and so folks will feel une... See more