Inner Change Beyond Habit

Neville's Inner Vision

Your present verse speaks to fixed states of consciousness. The Ethiopian and the leopard are not outer colors but inner patterns of mind you deem unchangeable. Outward change cannot come by effort alone because the I AM within you remains the same skin you claim. To turn is to revise your inner state; repentance is a renewal of mind, not a moral struggle. When you accept that a new state of consciousness already exists within you, your imagination begins to work as a law. You are not seeking to become good you are becoming the one who already acts from a changed center. By dwelling in the feeling of the new man you clothe the old skin with a new color. Grace then is the natural result of inhabiting a different inner setting and allowing that inner world to express itself through outward acts.