Yogi Bhajan Quotes on Conscious Communication (Part 2)

If people depend on me to be a man of truth, I have to prove again and again and again and again that I am a man of truth. It cannot be that on Monday I am a man of truth, on Tuesday I speak three-quarters truth, Wednesday I speak half-truth, on Thursday I speak one-quarter truth, on Friday I don’t speak at all, and on Saturday I can’t even think how to speak the truth. -July 3, 1982

Never utter a word if it is not from your navel point and it doesn’t confirm your regal, highest self. -July 29, 1996

There’s a great blunder which we commit. Through communication, we try to control people…The fact is that nobody can control anybody. All you can do is flow. You can flow with each other, like rivers and streams flow with each other and they all end up in the same ocean. All things come from God and all things go to God. It’s a very simple formula which you have learned. –

Remember: the Word is God and God is the Word. You are what your words are. -August 25, 1978

In the beginning was the Word. It doesn’t say in the beginning was God. In the beginning was the Word because in the very beginning of every moment of time and space your word counts. Your whole destiny is written in the Word. -July 7, 1982

Your communication should not be for you. Your communication should be a service vehicle to reach the other person. Talking is for the other person. Listening is for you. -July 1, 1987

You only communicate to pass the time, or to express the emotions. Your tongue has to develop [the capacity] to speak consciousness. -July 1, 1987

The moment you understand that there is an essence of purity in you, you will realize reality. The moment you realize reality you will have royalty, and then you don’t have to say or do a thing. When your presence will work then you will emit wisdom. -July 27, 1996

Regardless of what we understand or do not understand, we are what we speak. That’s how we are known. -July 27, 1996