' Be careful '...

106. Be careful.

The moment you start talking
you create a verbal universe,
a universe of words, ideas,
concepts and abstractions,
interwoven and interdependent,

most wonderfully
generating, supporting and explaining each other
and yet all without essence or substance,
mere creations of the mind.

Words create words,

reality is silent.

107. Once you are beyond the person,
you need no words.


-The above Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj quotes are from the book
The Seven Steps to Awakening.