When you seek proper health and balance in your body through correct nutrition, thinking and talking about it is a start. Handling the raw foods comes next, and is followed by cooking. Tasting the product one gains more, but it is only by eating that it enters the body. The taste and experience of the dinner is not the end. The food must be assimilated and the waste expelled. Only then, if all the conditions are met, and the correct balance and blending of foods, for the person, are eaten, assimilated, and excreted, can the be correct balance and nutrition for the body.
So too with the soul. The nutrition of the soul is love. The dinner of love is carried on the plate and utensils of breath. The result of correct balance and assimilation is wisdom.
As you would not seek proper nutrition by only speaking or thinking about it; you would not stop at preparation or tasting. Nor would you be satisfied by eating alone. So too, to reach the correct balance and harmony of the soul, one would not stop - be attached to or accept as a substitute, the lesser stages of intellect, piety, or spirituality.
Breathe love, become it. Then in balance one can express the health of Being - the Beloved, Ideal through oneself.