Modest Attire, Inner State

Neville's Inner Vision

In the Neville Goddard approach, clothing is a symbol of your inner state. Modesty and sobriety are inner dispositions—the true attire of consciousness. The external adornments mentioned (hair, gold, pearls, costly array) serve as signals of a belief in value through appearance. You are not a body wearing a soul, but awareness imagining itself. The directive invites you to revise the assumption that worth comes from externals and to embody a state that requires no display. To be modest is to maintain the I AM in restrained expression; to be sober is to keep clarity of awareness, undistracted by vanity or fear. If you seek to appear morally upright, begin by feeling yourself already as that inner condition. The phrase "modest apparel" becomes inner alignment: the heart’s humility, the eyes that see truth, and a tongue that speaks with measured restraint. When you assume this inner attire, outer form can harmonize with your true state, for consciousness creates form.