The scriptures say something very interesting about this:
“Faith cometh by the word, and the word by hearing.”
Perhaps because faith was lost by the word, it must some-
how be returned through the word. Those who rule this
world are powerful manipulators of the human condition.
Their power depends on your reacting to their words.They
would be powerless if you failed to react to them. It is your
own resentment, your pathetic struggle against their words,
that feeds their power.
       To free yourself from this involvement, the first thing
you must do is realize what the problem is. Until you do,
you cannot be saved. Discover now how to separate your
consciousness from language.
       Have you ever experienced saying a word, and as you
repeated it, it began to sound like a strange, unintelligible
noise? Let’s take any word, like “potato.” If you close your
eyes and stand back from saying the word “potato,” soon it
will sound like a silly noise. As you become separated from
the earthly association, the word is seen to be what it is—
just noise.As you stand back from language, you will feel stu-
pid, as though you know nothing at all—you will have given
up involvement with knowledge (words) and discovered the
first humbling truth—that you don’t know anything, and that
nothing you can ever learn by rote is worth anything. Quite
often you will feel dumb and stupid because, in truth, your
whole sense of worth has been derived from being involved
with the deceitful spirit of language.Your sense of who you
are is bound up in words. You think in words, you speak
in words, you make decisions through words, and that
“conscience” talks back to you in words—the false conscience,

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