Speak Truth

Speech is an intermediate step in the creative process between thought and action or material substance. Let your words be instrumental in bringing forth the highest good you desire.
~Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian

Our daily meditation practice teaches us to watch and control the thoughts that occur in the mind. In daily life we can encourage useful thoughts and let others fall away. We can observe the impact as thoughts move into the active stage of speech. When our speech is firmly based in truth, it has the power of manifestation. The classic text, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, states that "One who is truthful experiences quick results of actions." [translation by Roy Eugene Davis] Our meditation practice provides the gift of acute awareness of the contents of the mind and the ability to control its contents. As we work on a truthfulness practice, we enable our innate power of speech to manifest positive changes not only in ourselves, but in the external universe that supports our useful endeavors.