Curiosity Killed the Cat
2008
In living your life as a practice one of the things that I encourage everyone to take on as a practice is paying attention to what comes out of your mouth. And of course, what you allow into your ears, but that’s for another post.
Words are creative or destructive, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton was right, “the pen is mightier than the sword”.
So consider this familiar proverb that is the title of today’s post. Ever thought about what this means or where it comes from? Really. What is it trying to tell us? I looked it up on Wikipedia and apparently no one really knows where it came from.
Seems the earliest known reference was in either in 1909 or in 1916 and had to do with the reported… Continue reading


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