Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Julian Rose, Contributor
Waking Times
There’s no doubt about it: actions speak louder than words. However words also speak loudly when intimately bonded with actions. Otherwise they remain empty.
If we remain aloof from full engagement our words simply become a commentary on life. And a commentator is one who normally views action as something ‘on the outside’ , thereby feeling disengaged from it. The time for detachedly commentating – or commenting – on the various degrees of global oppression and struggling emancipation – must surely be over.
No one who takes the pulse of mother Earth can fail to recognise that she has a fever – a severe fever. Now if a doctor takes one’s pulse and finds one is running a fever, he or she will prescribe something to lessen it. Not necessarily the right thing of course, but nevertheless action will be be taken to try to alleviate the problem.
So why do so many feel that it is enough just to recognise the symptoms, but take no part in prescribing a cure?
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