Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.
Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others.
If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer you speak, the more you will know to tell.
Giving a true speech, a true, passionate speech, is old-school football.
We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.
Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite says with his tongue what is not in his heart. He wrongs his tongue and oppresses his heart. But if the heart is sound, the condition of the tongue follows suit. We are commanded to be upright in speech, which is a gauge of the heart's state.
He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.
