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When a thought is expressed in speech, the vibration of the sound has a considerable power to bring the most material substance into contact with the thought, thus giving it a concrete and effective reality. That is why one must never speak ill of people or things or say things which go against the progress of the divine realisation in the world. This is an absolute general rule. And yet it has one exception. You should not criticise anything unless at the same time you have the conscious power and active will to dissolve or transform the movements or things you criticise. For this conscious power and active will have the capacity of infusing Matter with the possibility to react and refuse the bad vibration and ultimately to correct it so that it becomes impossible for it to go on expressing itself on the physical plane. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-four-austerities-and-the-four-liberations#p48,p49</ref>
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Even those who have a strong inner life, take a long time before they can connect it with the outer speech and action. Outer speech belo<center>~</center>ngs belongs to the externalising mind—that is why it is so difficult to connect it with the inner life.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/speech-and-yoga#p1</ref>
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