What are we saying, and why?

I have observed over the past years certain words in my vocabulary infrequently used, if used at all. I have also realized the importance of what I say and why I say it, or don't. This also leads to saying less and hearing more. Just as a chick's feathers fall away and make room for the mature feathers, so do old-world words as our awareness expands. I have realized that there are words we language that are not self-serving for us now. There are words we speak unconsciously in all conversations. We say rehearsed and memorized quotes, topics, and subjects that are as a dead as the printed words from whence they derived. We may not have read them personally but the person we are speaking to has. We ask questions without really listening for an answer. We say things without even listening to what we are saying. We are acting our lines from scripts that have been handed to us through the collective society. We are the sum of what has stuck to us.

There are words we say automatically like playing a recorded message instead of answering or speaking from within the spontaneity of the moment. We have filled our conversations with disempowering phrases and anecdotes that convey absolutely nothing. We rarely share anything real outside of our philosophical clutches. We need to step outside of our "box of tricks" to receive and enlightened angle, or angel. We need to step beyond our limited sense of self to have true conversations. We rarely share epiphany. We use words such as should, or could, or might, or wish, or luck, that have very little gravity and too much inertia to get carried away in. These are words that are not grounded in being. These are words that reside in tomorrow or yesterday. Instead of saying "I should have gotten to work on time"; denoting variables unending, you would say "I will be on time for work from now on." Can you feel the difference? Do you feel the sturdiness? Do you feel the roots below your feet? The first statement is full of insecurity and doubt and lacking confidence while the latter is grounded and with purpose. With self-awareness comes awareness of what one is thinking and then saying. What we say is just a tangent thought.

With such a simple change of words our entire attitude changes, the thoughts are silenced and the heart finds a voice. We shift into another space. The power lies in the time to take silence and reverence to receive the new as we speak to each other. If we stop the program we will hear the truth in-between. We will find happiness in knowing what we are saying and not saying.