Sacrifice of Praise and Charity

Neville's Inner Vision

To the awakened self, these verses announce a law of inner reality. 'By him therefore' is your recognition that all life flows from the I AM you truly are, and the 'sacrifice of praise' is the steady, felt gratitude you cultivate in that consciousness. When you utter 'the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name' you are not petitioning an external deity, you are aligning your inner speech with the fact of awareness. Praise becomes a continuous state, a habit of feeling the truth that God is the very nature of your life. 'But to do good and to communicate forget not' reveals the second law: generous action is the natural outpouring of that inner state. Act as if your neighbor’s good is your own, for in this inner reality there is no separation. When you live from that awareness, you please the divine within—the I AM that you are—because such acts are acts of self-recognition. The outward sacrifices are therefore manifestations of your inner harmony; the world changes when you permit your heart to live as gratitude and generosity.