Silent Discipline, Richer Life

Neville's Inner Vision

Let this verse be read as the map of your interior life. Not given to wine declares a sober, clear mind; not a striker and not greedy of filthy lucre declare a mind that refrains from force and from grasping after external things. The patient, the non-brawler, the non-covetous are not moral judgments but descriptions of the state of consciousness you awaken. You do not strive to become patient; you realize you already are the I AM, and that presence quiets every impulse toward excess or combat. When you dwell in that awareness, the outer world shifts to reflect the inner center: people, money, and conflict appear as movements of your own inner state. To change the world, do not battle the world; revise your premise of self until you feel the truth of a sober, peaceful, generous center. The invitation is to inhabit a calm I AM that is not owned by appetite or ambition but is the source from which all disciplined, peaceful action flows.