Secret Power of Words

Introduction 

I remember one time, when I was a young boy; someone said something mean to me. All at once I became conscious of my reaction. I wondered, "How could mere words hurt so much?" After all, no one hit me with a rock. Already a searching soul, I was standing back and looking at the awesome effect of words. I saw how my ego was built out of them.
     I remember that I would sometimes ask myself a question, and words would come back from within my mind. I thought, "This is ridiculous! Here I am, asking myself a question, and this part of me that sounds like me, but isn't me, comes up with an answer." I saw that I still didn't know the real answer, even though it pretended to be me giving me the answer.
     You too have this language spirit, a descendant of the spirit of doubt that was present when Paradise was lost. It

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