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It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.

Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.

Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere. Words hurt, soothe, inspire, demean, demand, incite, pacify, teach, romance, pervert, unite, divide. Words be powerful.

If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority figure's words. As I am always sharing, 'wordswordswords' can become 'swordswordswords,' and we can kill or cure with either words or swords.