Words From The Master: How does Worry take root?

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Excerpt From:	Living Enlightenment
Chapter 1:	You Are Your Emotions
Section 2:	There is nothing to worry – Living enlightenment is enjoying life without worry.
Part 2:	How does Worry take root?
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Worry takes root from your own thoughts or words. There are two things that continuously happen in you. The first is dialogue, and the second is monologue or what I call ‘inner chatter’. You either talk to people outside or you continuously chatter within you. In any case, words and thoughts are the ‘building blocks’ that make up worry.

When you speak to others, what you say is strictly governed by societal rules. You automatically don’t use prohibited or ‘politically incorrect’ words. But what you say inside yourself, no one except you knows. The thoughts that you generate inside constitute your real worries.

Khalil Gibran*, a Lebanese poet of the eighteenth century, beautifully says, ‘You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts!’ and ‘Our very verbalization is because we are not able to handle ourselves peacefully within us.’

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Khalil Gibran – Lebanese American poet best known for his ‘The Prophet’.