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line in the sand.

what if today is the day? the day you give up evil speech? they say evil speech is negative because it “leaks light.” so if you’ve been going around saying, “the emperor has no clothes,” that’s not helping. it’s hurting. why? because it cuts holes into people’s certainty, sowing doubt and chaos.

when we abstain from evil speech, it signals trust in God; trust that the truth will be revealed in divine timing. trust that we don’t have to take it upon ourselves to make everyone uncomfortable, telling them things they can’t hear yet and have gone out of their way to avoid. not everyone wants the truth. judgment invites judgment. the temptation to evil speech is greatest when others weaponize chaos, authority or mediocrity. it’s a test. chaos invites chaos. do not accept.

let odin, the norse all-father, be your hero. odin cut out his human eye to receive the eye of wisdom. we know that evil speech arises from the human eye, which serves justice through discernment, deftly separating good from bad, right from wrong, wheat from chaff. the eye of wisdom is the eye of truth. and truth is higher than justice because truth requires no process, no weighing, no separating, no balance. truth is the blade. truth just is; it belongs to the gods, to the divine, and you can’t have it if you’re still leaking light through the evil speech that arises from your own discernment.

but what do i do instead? if i’m not bingeing and drinking and consuming to push down the truth that wells up inside me; if i’m not vomiting out this evil speech to let everyone know what’s really going on … what is to become of me?

you keep your truth inside you. resisting temptation expands your vessel for blessings. the truth transmutes into wisdom. and you leave the rest to God.