The Third Zen Patriarch, Seng-Ts’an said,

“Word! Words! The Way is beyond language, for in it there is no yesterday, no tomorrow, no today.” from the Hsin-Hsin Ming translated by Richard B. Clarke (c) 1973.

Malcolm Guite, in the link provided below, gives us a beautiful poem on what can happen, what might happen if we use our words recklessly.

May our words be truthful and kind.

‘Every Idle Word’: What if we had to own up to what we say?