VILIFICATION

Do not abuse anyone with evil words.

 

Every person not sufficiently accomplished in itself has the instinctive tendency to bully others.

 

What is the reason for this slanderous craze?

 

It is an inferiority complex attached with a desire for superiority.

 

Decreasing the value of others gives us the grateful illusion of increasing our own value.

 

The vast majority of men are not in a position to measure their own value. They need to measure it by depreciating others.

 

These men judges that it necessary to extinguish other people's lights in order to make their own light brighter.

 

They are like fireflies which cannot shine except through the darkness of the night, because the light of their phosphorescent beacon is very weak.

 

Those who have enough light of their own don't need to erase or dim the lights of others in order to shine.

 

Those who have vigorous spiritual health do not need to call others sick to enjoy their own health consciousness.

 

Our social gatherings, our chats are, in general, academies of slander and gossip.

 

To speak evil about others' miseries is such subtle and seductive pleasure - something like a narcotic - that a person of poor moral health easily succumbs to this toxic.

 

The word is a valuable tool for the debates between men. However, the word has not always been used properly.

 

Few men use this precious resource to build hope, soften pain, and to direct safe routes.

 

There is much talk in endless unnecessary conversations, and the word often becomes a stigma of impiety, a blade of slander, and inciting revolt.

 

Similar to drops of light, good words resolve conflicts and difficulties.

 

In an eloquent speech, missionary spirits reshaped the foundations of human thought.

 

So too, Hitler hypnotized multitudes, who blindly threw themselves upon other nations, turning them into ruins.

 

Wars and peace plans suffer the powerful influence of the word.

 

There are those who utter sweet words, with lips soaked with gall.

 

There are those who speak tenderly, full of anger and hatred. They are the sick ones in a lengthy process of readjustment.

 

Therefore, it is up to people who are lucid and of common sense, not to give grounds for the poison of slander to spread, destroying lives and making others unhappy.

 

Think about it!

 

We need to be more apologetic to others fragility, reminding us of our own weaknesses.

 

Let's avoid censorship.

 

Slander begins with the inconvenient censorship.

 

If we wish to educate, to correct mistakes, the targeted person must be present, and not behind its back. 

 

Every word that causes embarrassment, like any stubborn censorship, is a negative habit that culminates by debasing the character of those who delights with it. 

 

Let us enrich our hearts with love and bathe our minds with the lights of divine mercy.

 

Because, according to the Gospel of Luke, “For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.”