Cultivating Inner Virtues Now

Neville's Inner Vision

The passage reveals a psychological path: faith is your I AM, the steadfast awareness within. Beside this, you add virtue, which is the expression of that awareness in conduct; to virtue you attach knowledge, the clarified understanding that arises when you listen to the inner witness; to knowledge you attach temperance, the mastery of impressions; to temperance you attach patience, the calm persistence of the inner observer; and to patience you attach godliness, life lived from the divine center. This is not a call for external rituals but a reconfiguration of your inner state. Practice by revising your self-image: you are the kind of being who already possesses these qualities. When fear or lack arises, do not fight it; instead, assume the end: you are virtue, you know, you are temperate, you are patient, you are godly. Persist in this inner revision, and your outer world will echo the reality you have declared.