Words create worlds.
Or so says 20th-century Hebrew philosopher and theologian Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.
Words can install fear, provide comfort, change a person’s attitude, enlighten and encourage, or shred confidence and leave permanent scars. I was fishing, actually, when my first urologist made a personal phone call with words that created my new world. “Jeff, I’m afraid you have Stage 2 prostate cancer,” said the doctor, who later noted that he “never uses the word ‘cured,’ only ‘long-term remission.’”
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