Chapter 21 talk

Please speak for us, said a scholar. He replied: When you cannot live in peace with your thoughts, you start talking; When you can no longer live in the loneliness of the soul, you will turn to live in the tongue, and the sound becomes a kind of entertainment and pastime. In many utterances almost half of your thoughts are stifled. Because thought is a bird belonging to the sky, it may be able to spread its wings in the cage of language, but it cannot fly. Some of you have become loquacious out of fear of being alone. The silence of solitude reveals to them their naked selves, and they flee.

There are those who talk too much, but lack the knowledge and insight to express a truth they do not understand. Some people have truth in their hearts but never put it into words. In the breasts of these people the spirit lives in silent rhythms. When you meet your friends on the roadside or in the fair, let the spirit within you move your lips and guide your mouthpiece. Let the voice in your voice speak to the ear in his ear; For his soul shall preserve the truth of your heart, Like wine, when the color is forgotten and the glass is no more, its taste will still be remembered.