Throughout our lives, we speak! We talk with friends, with relatives, with strangers! We speak in our language, in other languages, we speak with the language of the body! Sometimes thoughtlessly, sometimes reserved, and sometimes with arrogance!
The wound created by language is much deeper than that created by the knife.
Because the knife wounds the body, while the language wounds the soul...
Pythagoras
Proverbs 12:18
εἰσὶν οἳ λέγοντες τιτρώσκουσι μαχαίρᾳ, γλῶσσαι δὲ σοφῶν ἰῶνται.
[eng] The words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
One of the most important linguists of the 20th century, the Frenchman Paul Jules Antoine Meillet, states:
"Language is a system where everything is interconnected."
"La langue est un systeme où tout se tient" (French)
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The Apostle Paul speaks to us about a language that has power beyond the visible and the invisible. A language that brings peace not only among people but in relation to the mystery of our existence.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
1 Ἐὰν ταῖς γλώσσαις τῶν ἀνθρώπων λαλῶ καὶ τῶν ἀγγέλων, ἀγάπην δὲ μὴ ἔχω, γέγονα χαλκὸς ἠχῶν ἢ κύμβαλον ἀλαλάζον. 2 καὶ ἐὰν ἔχω προφητείαν καὶ εἰδῶ τὰ μυστήρια πάντα καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γνῶσιν, καὶ ἐὰν ἔχω πᾶσαν τὴν πίστιν, ὥστε ὄρη μεθιστάνειν, ἀγάπην δὲ μὴ ἔχω, οὐδέν εἰμι. 3 καὶ ἐὰν ψωμίσω πάντα τὰ ὑπάρχοντά μου, καὶ ἐὰν παραδῶ τὸ σῶμά μου ἵνα καυθήσωμαι, ἀγάπην δὲ μὴ ἔχω, οὐδὲν ὠφελοῦμαι.
[eng] 1If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
This language doesn't need to be spoken but to be practiced!
1 John 3:18
Τεκνία μου, μὴ ἀγαπῶμεν λόγῳ μηδὲ τῇ γλώσσῃ, ἀλλ᾿ ἐν ἔργῳ καὶ ἀληθείᾳ.
Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
It is a universal language. A language of universality, which understands and protects the well-being of all people and all nature. The Apostle of the Nations knows the power of this language and shows us the way, the code. Love is not only a universal means of communication but also the foundation for our support and development on a unique - personal level and in society. Acceptance of our individual uniqueness and the right to love ourselves, to treat ourselves with genuine interest, care, and respect, are elements that constitute the fundamental principle for our development in all areas. The foundation we now build upon is love, and love can be nothing less than what the Apostle Paul describes.
This foundation needs to be taught and educated from childhood so that we prioritize uniqueness and its discovery.
John 14:2
Ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ τοῦ πατρός μου μοναὶ πολλαί εἰσιν· εἰ δὲ μή, εἶπον ἂν ὑμῖν· πορεύομαι ἑτοιμάσαι τόπον ὑμῖν·
[eng] My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
Comment: "...heaven has plenty of space... So, it is logical that, by saying that there are many dwellings, he wants to suggest that the honor is also different, since everyone who wants to live with virtue will receive his own, in a way, place and the glory that befits his achievements..."
What exists is available for discovery. It is never too late! This knowledge challenges humans to discover, to explore themselves. And now, it will not be competition with someone else's research but a personal challenge.
"Love and ourselves are one, and the discovery
of one of the two is the realization of both."
"When you have knowledge, you accept and appreciate yourself
and your uniqueness, so you will allow others to do the same."
Leo Buscaglia
Text: Maria Langaditi
Text editor: Ada Kiriazi
Source:
'Love,' Leonardo Buscaglia
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