The Mouth: An Instrument of Creation

At the mouth of a river the sound always changes — wherever there is a wave to carry it. The human mouth has the same task: to change the sound wave so that information reaches the surrounding world. Singing, speaking, kissing, eating — these are all different flows of energy: some move from the inside out, others from the outside in. The mouth regulates these flows. When we eat, we receive; when we speak and kiss, we transmit vibration and energy — sometimes without any sound at all.

You can transmit with your hands too, by touch — but it will not be as full. With the mouth you can explain; with touch you can only add. That is why the mouth is an instrument for transmitting and receiving information — which makes it an instrument for creating yourself as a person and the space around you. It is the basic mechanism of human expression, built in by nature. You can also express yourself through creative work — paintings, poetry — but that has to be learned and cultivated; I know this from my own canvas.

The mouth is an instrument for interacting with the surrounding world.

Not everyone is given speech

Everyone has a mouth, but not everyone is given speech — because there is not always something to say. The divine design of a human being is to express thought; the beauty of the expression is relative. Someone uses rough language and considers it harmonious — and even that can hold something of interest for the listener. Everything depends on how a person relates to the information they deliver. It is like driving a screw: you can force it in until the bit wears out within a day — or you can feel the screw, the pressure, the way it enters the wood. Then the bit stays whole and the screws end up where they belong.

And there are no “fools” — there are people who hear and express themselves differently. The working world is full of wise, worthy people who gain their knowledge empirically and know how to live, but do not know how to express it through the mouth. That does not make them less intelligent — it makes them untranslated. Yet developing your thinking without developing the ability to state your thoughts is like sweeping a street with a household dustpan, or putting out a fire with a water pistol: the content is there, but the instrument is out of scale.

Everyone has a mouth, but not everyone is given speech — there is not always something to say.

The length of your wave

Look at professional speakers — politicians, for instance. How do they move a crowd? They share energy — and the crowd, as a mass, does not much care which kind: people simply see that it is there and respond with surprise or delight. Oratory came into being because those who had plenty of energy learned to share it beautifully — through the mouth.

Every wave has a length: a shout carries only so far. The meaning you put into words has its own distance of realisation — the same information will reach one listener and never arrive at another. The uniqueness of your mouth lies in carrying meaning to different people — changing the frequency to fit the listener without changing the essence.

And there is a bonus few people notice: as you develop the ability to speak, you receive feedback on your own inner balance. Speech cannot be hidden — your whole internal state is audible in it. If you want to know what is inside you, listen to how you speak.

Develop the art of speaking, and you receive feedback on your own harmony.

The work on the cover — “Energy” →

— Evgeny Fleysher