(…) if you can’t control your tongue, then you haven’t really begun to control your mind either. There’s the tongue, which is part of the body, but there is also the silence of the body, which is why we sit still in meditation, why we are careful with the noises we make during the time of meditation. If you can’t control your mind, you are not going to be able to move into that level of spirit, the silence of the spirit.