The Good Natured Gossip

The price of continuing spiritual freedom is vigilance. Drifting into negative thinking and speech, typically happening without any conscious thought or plan on our part, is easy. The “good” natured gossip session with a friend or joining in (or worse, instigating) a huddle complaining about a disagreeable co-worker or boss, taking sides in any romantic or marital dispute or simply speaking about someone for any reason where we would be embarrassed if we discovered them standing behind us, show that we have strayed. If we are saying anything about anyone that we would be unwilling to say to them in person, we place ourselves at risk. Gossiping and tale telling rarely (if ever) embodies patience, tolerance, kindliness or love and those are some of the watchwords Living on the Spiritual Basis embodies. As far as taking sides in romantic squabbles, we have all probably done this only to become the enemy upon their reconciliation, so we have learned to be supportive but avoid engaging in character assassination, no matter how seemingly egregious someones  behavior appears to be. One of the great truths in life is there is always two sides to every story and they often only have a passing resemblance to one another.

So restraint of pen and tongue is not only a secular truth but a spiritual axiom as well. 

Golden Key, Golden Rule, A Course in Miracles, AA, Alanon, Zen, Wayne Dyer, The Secret, Road Less Traveled, Law Of Attraction,