Daily Meditation: Friday, December 17, 1999

Watch what you say : do not engage in big talk, do not …

12/17/1999

Watch what you say : do not engage in big talk, do not commit yourself lightly, because you will provoke the invisible world and you will then have great trouble in keeping your commitments. In fact, you will not succeed. A man swears he will never get married. Some time later he meets a woman. This woman, who is in fact the least able to make him happy, makes him lose his head and he marries her. Why ? Because there are entities in the invisible world who, seeing this man so sure of himself, want to put him to the test. They try him to see what he is capable of, and very soon he succumbs. That is how people often do exactly the opposite of what they so adamantly professed, or promised. In some countries it is the custom for a person to touch wood when saying something. This may seem superstitious, but this gesture says a great deal. It shows that, whilst they are talking, people are conscious of provoking invisible entities, and they touch wood to ward off misfortune.