Inner Eye of Humility

Neville's Inner Vision

To the Neville reader, this is not a command to grovel before a distant deity, but a declaration of your inner state. God, the I AM, has not abandoned you to outward things; He is the inner eye that witnesses what you feel. The 'poor' here means a poverty of identification with the surface self, a willingness to lean on the word that springs from within. The 'contrite spirit' is a broken, teachable attitude—a humble posture that refuses to argue with the ego and that trembles at the living word you have formed in imagination. When you 'tremble at my word,' you are not trembling at a decree out there; you are honoring the living word you are already imagining as true. Your inner habit becomes a life: you revise the sense of lack, you assume the I AM already true, and you dwell in the felt reality of that word until it drops from the imagination into action. This is worship as inner practice: the quiet mind is the altar, the word is the seed, and your consciousness is the ground in which it grows.