Very busy week; I only meditated once this week. It was a section from Loyola to his followers on how to act. the first line is:
Preserve yourself in peace and true humility of the soul,
keeping silence when silence should be kept and,
when you must speak, speaking with discretion.
It made me think of a Yoda type character who never speaks but when he does every word is golden. My dad was like that. I am not. I am getting better at only speaking when " I must". I am working on listening.
There is the other side of the coin here too. Some people are uncomfortable speaking up. Loyola is telling us that there are times that "we must". As always we should speak with discretion and not give in to gossip and idle chatter.
Finally, all of the above needs to be grounded in peace and true humility of the soul. With this as our ground, when we do get into a discussion with someone, it will be for the good of everyone involved.
Pax
Joe
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