Worry is a place of exile and pain.

Worry is a place of exile and pain. "For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, "In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength" (Isa. 30:15). This message, alas, is rarely heeded because people are easily seduced by the vain attractions and empty threats of this evil world. We are constantly barraged with spurious messages that appeal to our lusts, our fears, or our vanity: "Buy me!" "You need this!" "Find pleasure," "This will bring you love, respect," etc.; Or we are given subliminal messages to be afraid and conform to the programming of those in power, to uncritically trust authority figures, to resist independent thinking, to submit to the mass hypnosis of the collective, and so on. We are so saturated by such fraudulent messages that we often deprecate them as "just words" and thereby become cynical of our need for truth. Because worldly language is a means of coercion and violence, we must be ready to think clearly and to ask the deeper questions about truth, significance, and the reality that language was intended to reveal to our conscious minds. Just as written words require surrounding spaces to identify their significance, however, so we need quiet - silence spaces within our souls - to heed the message of truth. Indeed the Torah links the use of language with the soul (i.e., nefesh: נֶפֶשׁ) since God breathed into Adam the ability to think and to speak. Thought and speech, then, are two primary characteristics of being created in the image (צֶלֶם) of God. A declarative statement constitutes an implied promise of veracity or"testimony" that is considered a “bond on the soul” (אִסָּר עַל־נַפְשׁוֹ) and therefore our use of words is directly linked to the “breath of God” within us. This further implies that lying, equivocating, denying the truth, or breaking our word defaces the image of God within us.