“Take a breath before you speak” follows the phrase “Be
silent always” within the below quote by Bernard Poolman. What I have noticed is that the effectiveness with which you
are able to quiet your mind determines what you must consider in the breath you
take before you speak.
(continued from Be Silent Always)

Thoughts, feelings and emotions cannot be trusted, yet this is
what busies our minds. If something makes you feel good energetically – you can
now not be trusted by Life. If something makes you feel bad energetically, you
cannot be trusted by Life. If you think thoughts secretly, you cannot be
trusted by Life. It is all based in self-interest - considering self only -
self’s hidden fears and desires, self’s highs and lows. Self’s dopamine and serotonin
levels. If thoughts, feelings and emotions are accepted and allowed to manifest
and grow within people, what you see is the murders, the rape, the malice, the contempt,
the pain and suffering whether physical or emotional being deliberately
inflicted upon one human being by another. The fact that billions of innocent
people are starving is an outflow of self-interest, and the fact that nobody actually
cares is an outflow of self-interest. A child starving is the result of pure
evil on a collective level, not one person is exempt.
So, whether your starting point feels good
or feels bad, the outcome is always the same – evil, harmful, untrustworthy.
Love turns to hate, desire turns to possession, attraction turns to rape. It’s
only a matter of how far you chose to take it. But even in the most minutest
doses, we are all collectively impulsing evil through self-interest, through
valuing what we create in our minds secretly, through even accepting and
allowing the seed to exist within us. How can you condemn rape if you lust? How
can you condemn possession if you also desire? Anything polarized into ‘positive’
and ‘negative’ by self-interest that you participate with in your mind is a
seed of evil, and is why the world and humanity exist as they do today. It is
just too easy to deny and become offended by. We don’t want to see or admit it,
but common-sense dictates.
In the breath you take before you speak, you have a quantum
moment to clear yourself, to not speak evil, to not impulse evil into this
reality through fear, spite, hate, lust, desire, or any other feeling, emotion
or secret thoughts. If your mind was busy before you speak, then the slate you
have to clear exist only between your two ears. You cannot be trusted to direct
anything beyond that. Self First. It is a moment that you give yourself to take
absolute self-responsibility for yourself, your words and their outflows. Only
when your mind is silent always can you be trusted to direct the greater
reality. In between these two points is the learning process which will
inevitably create consequence through mistakes, failures, trial and error.
Learn from consequence.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to
speak within and as emotion, emotional accumulation or emotional reaction, when
I know that the words I speak from this starting point is like spitting venom
into my reality and the people within it. Nothing constructive comes from me
and from my words when spoken from an emotional starting point.
I forgive myself for participating within and as emotions
when I know where they lead every time, when I know there is deception within my words, that there is ulterior motive, and within this, that my words cannot be trusted.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to
speak from a starting point of fear, where instead of addressing and facing the
fear head on, I speak words of indirect manipulation, trying to manipulate
reality into such a way where I do not have to face my fears, making the statement
to myself that I cannot stand in the face of my fears, and bringing others into
my game of avoidance without considering the effect this has on them, on the greater
whole, and what I am impulsing into all of existence.
I forgive myself for participating in my fears, feeding them
with thoughts, anticipations, imaginary worst-case scenario play-outs and who I
will be within it all, bringing out my worst in my mind when I know I can be
better.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to
speak from a starting point of blame or abdication of self-responsibility, thus
making the statement to myself that I am not responsible for me, I cannot take responsibility
for myself, and placing it upon others and them changing so that I can
remain in my comfort zone and not have to face what I have accepted and allowed
myself to become as a result of building myself within and as emotion.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to
speak from a starting point of feelings, feeling accumulation, or feeling
reaction, where I feel good about something and so do not want to lose
it, do not want to lose the positive energy or energy high, and so will manipulate
my reality to keep me feeling this way, wherein when something or someone
changes and I lose or fear to lose my positive state, I blame that someone or
something, becoming nasty and spiteful, thus playing out the polarity of the
positive feeling energy.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to
speak from a positive energy high, not grounding my words in reality, not
assessing myself and what it is I am pushing, which is only seeking to keep and
maintain my positive energy high.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to
speak from a starting point of desire, desiring something outside of myself to
fulfill me, wherein my words cannot be trusted because they are contaminated
with desire and secretly trying to fulfill secret desires that I hold due to an
experience of lack, as if something outside of myself could fulfill this lack
that I myself created through denying my self-expression.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to
speak within and as positive energy.
I forgive myself that I have NOT accepted and allowed myself
to take a breath before I speak.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to
speak so quickly that I do not give myself a moment to take self-responsibility
for my words and Who I Am within them.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to
think and believe that there is ‘too much to work through’ in one moment, not
seeing and realizing that I can work in quantum time with my awareness through practicing
self-honesty and seeing myself for real, for Who I Really Am and what it is I
am busy doing, so that in that quantum moment I can make a correction and a
change and be a better version of myself as the words I choose to speak.
I forgive myself that I have NOT accepted and allowed myself
to clear my slate before I speak, ensuring that the words I speak can be
trusted by Life and by the people in my life, my world and my reality.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to ‘forget’
to take a breath before I speak, as if who I choose to be in every moment is
unimportant, as if falling into automated autopilot programming is not a big
deal and can be applied haphazardly here and there when I feel like it, instead
of seeing and realizing that it is literally everything, from the very small to
the existential – this is what creates Self and the reality we live in.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to
go into a rush/rushedness when I speak, getting the answer out as fast as
possible to avoid having to see myself for real, experience myself for real,
take self-responsibility for real, and instead spit my words out sloppily,
contaminated, full of energetic charges for other people, my environment and
reality to deal with, which always actually ends up coming back to me in some shape
or form as my own consequence that I created in unawareness and will now have
to walk until I get it, until I decide to finally change.
I forgive myself that
I have accepted and allowed myself to try to ‘see more’, to see beyond
myself, without first fully mastering myself, quieting myself, where the try
and attempt to ‘see more’ is actually just a distraction from myself and having
to see myself, correct myself and put in the effort, dedication and commitment to
change myself for real.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to think
and believe that I cannot clearly check my words in one breath before I speak.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to suppress
what I see and feel within myself, blinding myself from being able to clear my
words before I speak.
I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to
clear my words before I speak.