Think of the person who cannot stop oversharing. They speak with such rapidity, often regretting the contents after they have spewed them, telling themselves they will stop revealing so much, but they cannot stop.
The chronic oversharer, this goof, this blabber, this minister of yap, places a feigned virtue on their lack of discipline and self-control. “Being authentic”—of course, a self-appeasing lie. They do not know themselves, and it is obvious to anybody who has done the appropriate self-appraisal. Their character is performative. The cheapest of masks, there is very little substance.
At their lowest, the mask tightens. They speak with desperate ventriloquism, every thought expressed so loosely and ridiculously; tracing the source of sense in their words is impossible. A nonsensical flight of scattered thoughts. Every utterance saturates the air with their mental disaster.
What discombobulation they spread. What gibberish. They do not know themselves in the slightest, and because of the war faced in their mind, anyone in their vicinity becomes a civilian casualty.
CRANIOTOMY: Dissection of your Human Condition
BONESAW
Category: BEST OF
-
-
As far as possible, be discreet in your conversations and do not overly open up to others. One will say it to another and another to yet another, and then what will come of that?
-
How does one acquire humility? By silence. Be silent! Be stupid! Let everyone consider you to be stupid! Silence is the primary means for the attainment of humility and love. One is saved by silence.
-
The shorter your sentences, the more believable you are.
—Michael Ardelean, HOW TO HAVE TOUGH CONVERSATIONS
-
“The thought that is contained within your mind is under your control. If you spread it, it becomes under people’s control; it has gone out of your domain to a wider domain in which it and you will be judged”
-
Among the items that waste time is for the mind to replay what it saw during the day. It finds audiovisual flashbacks of the entire past: discussions, images, actions, meetings, and conversations, as well as the mind’s consequent inferences— this consumes a great amount of time.
—H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Monastic Treasures for All of Us -
Silence is not always a virtue….
Sometimes we are judged guilty for keeping quiet…
The issue requires wisdom, so that we know when to speak and when to keep silent, and if we speak, then what words to use.
The wise man is one who does not remain silent when he should speak and does not speak when he should remain silent.
—H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Experiences in Life -
‘In addition to his other virtues, Abba Philimon possessed this characteristic: he would never listen to idle talk. If someone inadvertently said something which was of no benefit to the soul, he did not respond at all. When I went away on some duty, he did not ask: “Why are you going away?”; nor, when I returned, did he ask: “Where are you coming from?” Or “What have you been doing?”
A Discourse on Abba Philimon
SO GOOD QUOTES 