Speak From 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. We can observe the impact as thoughts move into the active stage of speech. In daily life we can encourage thoughts that are based in truth and let others fall away. 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] Mr. Davis, in his commentary on this sutra, says that "Conforming our thoughts and actions to what we know to be true keeps our attention and our actions focused on useful goals and productive endeavors that are easily actualized." When our lives are based in truth, we can live with ease and pleasure.