A Quote - He Whakaaro - A Thought
“Taste your words before you serve them” is a reminder that language carries wairua, it can heal, or it can harm.
To taste our words is to pause before we speak, to check the flavour of our thoughts and intentions. Are they bitter with ego, or seasoned with compassion?
Words once spoken cannot be unspoken, they linger in the hearts of others like echoes in a room.
This simple act of reflection transforms communication into a spiritual practice, a discipline of empathy, humility, and grace.
When we learn to savour silence before we speak, our words become nourishment rather than noise, food for peace, not fuel for pain.