Light-hearted, foolish chatter about problems can often make them worse, friend. If you lack inner calm, your words are bound to reflect the presence of fears, doubts, desires, impatience, or other restless forces operating within you. This can cause harm in any number of subtle ways. If you talk about the failings of others, for example, you not only make their correction of them harder, but you also strengthen your own vanity, which impairs your progress. If you babble about your travel difficulties while on vacation, you may put others off, and thereby miss the rejuvenating good times you were seeking. Loose lips sink trips.
