Center of all centers, core of cores, almond, that closes tightly in and sweetens,-- this entire world out to all the stars is your fruit-flesh: we greet you.
Look, you feel how nothing any longer clings to you; your husk is in infinity, and there the strong juice stands and crowds. And from outside a radiance assists it,
for high above, your suns in full splendor have wheeled blazingly around. Yet already there's begun inside you what lasts beyond the suns.
—Ranier Maria Rilke, translated by Edward Snow from New Poems
In the book, The Four Agreements, Miguel Ruiz, outlines four simple agreements that can transform your life. The first of those agreements is to be impeccable with my word. Words are magic. They can do incredible good or incredible harm. They can heal and bless, or maim and cripple.
Gary van Warmerdam at Pathways to Happiness has written a great essay about being impeccable with words. The video is powerful and shows how a group of teens explored the power of words in their lives.