I love words; I love what they can do; how they can open up a universe of possibility.

Once upon a time, someone said something to you – perhaps words of encouragement or permission or an insightful story – and you set out on your unique adventure.

Get words right and worlds are created; get them wrong, and worlds comes crashing in.

I’m reminded of those who spoke important words to me – sometimes hardly knowing what they were saying, but they loved the things they spoke of – and they changed me.  This is the power of words we get to be a part of, as we share words with others from our unique, unrepeatable perspective on life.  When we live the things we speak about, then we speak with authority:

‘Each person’s life – each life form, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.  And when your form dissolves, a world comes to an end – one of countless worlds.’*

Which is why it’s so important, while we have breath, that we speak up.

(*From Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth.)