The Inner Exercise of Godliness

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, this line is not a condemnation of the body but a reminder that true leverage lies in the state you inhabit. Bodily training may strengthen muscles, yet its profit remains outward and finite. Godliness—the steady alignment with the I AM, the living Spirit within you—operates as a universal currency because it shapes your inner atmosphere and, therefore, every outward circumstance. The life that now is is the expression of your present consciousness; the life that is to come is the natural extension of that same inner Life into future unfoldings. When you assume the divine Life as your actual condition—feeling, thinking, and acting from the I AM now—you alter the stage on which events appear. You do not wait for the world to change; you change your state and thus invite change into every room, relationship, and opportunity. The body is not its enemy nor its master; it is a symptom of your inner state. So revise the self-conception from “I am someone who struggles” to “I am the Life that expresses as me,” and watch appearances follow that truth.