Sometimes we speak clumsily and create internal knots in others. Then we say, "I was just telling the truth." It may be the truth, but if our way of speaking causes unnecessary suffering, it is not Right Speech. The truth must be presented in ways that others can accept.
"The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching," by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Vision : Reflections on the Way of the Soul, by Khalil Gibran
FRENCH: Le Grand Meaulnes, by Alain-Fournier
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew, by Bart D. Ehrman
WITH ROB: Magician, by Raymond Feist
WITH ROB: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by J.K. Rowling