“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” – Rudyard Kipling
The image: Fumatore by David Teniers – a 17th-century painting.
Teniers’ smoker sits in his quiet, shadowy corner, utterly surrendered to the effects of the slow burn of his pipe. But the deepest, most mind-altering dosage doesn’t come from dried leaves—it comes from words—thought, said, read, written, or heard.
Everything begins with words…
A few words, a single, devastating sentence, can shift your entire reality. That is reality.