It is practically impossible to stop talking. Life is expecting you to talk; Life has arranged things in such a way that almost everyone is expected to and will talk incessantly and specifically about their living. They will talk all day about, "what kind of guy I am" and "what's happened to me." Talk is expected and Life is dependent upon it.

Please note that talk is as natural to man as breathing. Note also, that you did not have to learn to do this and nobody encouraged you. If you are just walking around, cheap, old two-eyes in the City, you may think, "Well, now my mother talked a lot and that's why I am so verbose."
No, Life talks a lot! Your mother may have talked a lot, and it would be understandable if you did, but she did not make you do it through her talk. Life made you do it through your genes.

You are expected to talk a lot. If you are that important; if any of us were that important; if it made any difference to Life, and you were the final straw on the camels back, then Life would notice whenever you stopped talking. Life does not notice if one person does not talk that much. But, observe that you are naturally inclined to talk, you are wired up and your molecules want to talk. They specifically want to talk about "what kind of guy you are" and "what's happened to you."

I have pointed out, that when all sorts, all stripes of would-be religious and extraordinary groups of people throughout history got together, one of the things that they all had in common was that they would stagger around and engage in "no talk." They had all kinds of flighty ideas about this method, but I'm telling you what was actually going on: It created the possibility of having some energy left over.

You will notice that I have never encouraged anyone to become a mute. I have, though, suggested various excursions, of going off for 48 hours to not talk. I have even suggested going out in ordinary life and pretending that you could not talk. You might go into a situation where you would have normally talked, and pretend to be mute while out shopping and doing all the things you ordinarily do. This was for purposes of attempting to focus your attention in a certain way. It is not of any great benefit, in the City, not to talk.

To reap the benefits of "not talking," you have to have some understanding of what talk is about. The necessity of talk, the necessity of talk that appears to be superfluous, to be charitable, to be silly, that seems to be not of your liking, is a part of man's responsibility to Life. Because of talk, man is energy-efficient. He can even do this from a distance; he can do it through memory, he can bring up things from a three-dimensional view that no longer exist, ideas expressed by people who are dead, or historical events that are long over.

Not only that, man can apparently bring things back up over and over. It's almost as if he went out to the garbage that had become invisible and rotted, and he can still, through his memory, pull something out, eat it again and get a little energy. You have no memory without talk. With it, you can recycle energy to the nth degree. Talk is how man, in a singular way, turns up, transmits, and transfers more energy than any other creature on the planet.

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