What Would Buddha Say? 1,501 right speech Technique Barbara Ann Kipfer

" Learning to take care of your speech is learning to take care of thought, feelings and mind." Barbara is a Buddhist philosopher and a teacher of Buddha's eight fold path to Enlightenment. In this book, there are numerous jewels of sentences that can change our way of communication in professional as well as personal life. 

"Listening to your words during stressful discussion is essential to avoid fuelling the fire". Such sentences looks simple and obvious but this can be a life changing for the people who often work in stressful situation in communication. She says listening thoughtfully before speaking is one of the best art of living. 

"The blow of whip raises a welt, but a blow of the tongue crushes the bones."( Apocrypha Ecclesiastics)  This is so powerful saying that if you don't think before speak and don't listen yourself first, you are putting your life at risk of losing friends forever.

 "Silence enables you to deeply listen to your environment. This includes the words as well as the subtler, unspoken messages from other people"

"Don't get angry with the insults or bad talk of others. If you laugh and ignore attempts to provoke you, people will like you, not dislike you."

"There are two keys to effective and true communication. The first is deep listening. The second is living speech."

These are only few sentences which can change the way we communicate and the way we perceive the world around us.

I highly recommend this book to keep close every time and turn a page everyday. You can read any page any day, you can seen the changes in your life.