Click here . Wei Jingsheng, a Chinese dissident, imprisoned for 18 years for writing about democracy, was recently released. Instead, he dug deeper and found more.
Words are powerful sound bytes.
They travel heart to heart in seconds and once delivered, are irretrievable. Knowing that doesn't always make it easy to dig deeper and do better in what we say. But it helps us persist in trying to find the path. I've been something of a student of conversations-my own and others. In paying close attention to peoples' responses to certain kinds of remarks, and to general conversational cues, I've made some observations and gleaned a few things that have helped me become more watchful, more prayerful, and more careful in my own life.