The difference between silence and speech is the difference between sms and talking via the phone, email and chat or wisdom and mere intelligence. Silence can take you to many places, a journey that is often subtle yet profound while speech, without the resonance of reflection, has the transience and futility of writing on water.

Talking is curiously deflating and it is a wonder how many people fool themselves that they are working when they are actually just talking. The exquisite suspense of the sms or email, the reflection, thought and commitment behind the written word is truly thought provoking as opposed to reactive talk. If practised well, the ego is also distanced by the lack of attachment to the personality allowing the intellect to focus on the issue. Talkers find the writing process taxing as the mind requires more substance than the mouth to address the same point.

The trick is not to write as you talk. Don't react, interact!

Don't let the words flow from your mouth to your hand, rather let it trickle from the mind. Only in silence can you envision, speech only blinds you…