"For several months I decided not to speak about any third person; I would not speak to somebody about somebody else. No gossip. Ninety percent of my speech was eliminated. Before I did that I had no idea that I had spent so much time and energy engaged in that kind of talking. It is not that my speech had been particularly malicious, but for the most part it had been useless.
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"By stopping such speech for a while, my mind became less judgmental, not only of others, but also of myself, and it was a great relief."– Joseph Goldstein, from Everyday Mind by Jean Smith
I tried this same thing once. I think I made it about six hours.
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