Inner Gatekeeper of Speech

Neville's Inner Vision

Place is not a distant land but a state of awareness. When Exodus speaks of being circumspect in all things you have said unto you, see it as guarding the altar of your mind. The names of other gods are not external deities but competing thoughts, memories, or identifications that pretend to rule your life. Your true altar is the I AM, that ever-present awareness. To hear or repeat another god is to acknowledge a counterfeit power; you dissolve it by declaring, again and again, 'There is only I AM.' In this light, obedience becomes not rule-keeping but the discipline of remaining conscious of your own sovereign self. Every moment you catch yourself reciting a false god, revise by shifting attention to the sensation of unity, the feeling that you are the one consciousness manifesting as form. Make the assumption: I am the I AM; feel it as real until it outshines every other thought. As you persist, the outer world rearranges to match the inner alignment, for your experience is born from your inner speech and belief. The verse invites you to rest in the certainty that you are the I AM, and the multiplicity of gods fades into silence.