Words should be respected in their essence and in their meaning, while too often they are used for speaking sake or to hide the lack of consistence and deeds.


Words can be the tools which allow us to express impressive concepts, deep feelings or evocative descriptions, but they can also be a display of emptiness or a series of common places.


Words are a double-edged weapon to handle with care.


Edgar Allan Poe, a person who knew how to use words, said “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”


The ineluctable interconnection between words and deeds is their force and their weakness at once.
Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action.


Often the word “dialogue” is used wrongly as synonymous of “communication”.
People appeal to dialogue inopportunely, as if it was the solution for all conflicts, both in the public and private sphere.
Dialogue becomes a kind of universal panacea, a symbolic aspirin to cure all problems.


Why does it rarely work, since the presuppositions are so positive?
Maybe it’s because dialogue becomes a cacophony of two voices.
We speak because we want to be listened and we call it dialogue, while the purpose of dialogue is not made of two voices, but of two listening individuals.


Listening to each other is the essence of dialogue.


Probably is more important to learn how to listen, in order to be able to speak.
We might start by listening to ourselves, to give an inner voice to our own thoughts, without borrowing already made schemes from others.


Let’s make a little of silence, then, maybe, we’ll start to understand something.