Whenever One Watches His Words, He Gets Closer to Hashem

Whenever One Watches His Words, He Gets Closer to Hashem:
Sefer Imrei Pinchos (Shaar 7, Inyanim Shonim, Ois 132) quotes Rav Pinchos of Koretz zy”a as saying in the name of the Arizal that if one refrains from speaking for 40 days, he will merit receiving ruach hakodesh. Rav Pinchos explains that this does not happen all at once, at the end of the 40th day. Rather, one ascends to higher levels of kedusha every second that he does not speak, and he keeps rising higher and higher until he finally reaches the level of ruach hakodesh after 40 days.

This means that one gets closer to Hashem every second that he remains silent. In Rav Pinchos’s words: “The less one shmuesses, the closer he gets to kedusha.”