Inner Wisdom Beyond Empty Words

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse 15:2-3 asks, in the arena of your mind, whether a wise man should feed on vain knowledge or fill himself with the east wind of empty talk. The inward meaning is not to condemn clever speech, but to awaken to the fact that true wisdom is not the display of intellect in the outer world; it is the realization of the I AM, the awareness that breathes life into every scene. When you hear yourself contending with unprofitable talk, recognize it as wind—useful to no one, nourishing only the ego's hunger. The "east wind" is the gust of mere speculation that passes through your attention without producing anything of lasting value. The wise man who relies on such talk forgets that he is the sovereign creator of his experience, and his words carry the weight of his assumed state. Therefore, turn from external rhetoric to inner alignment: assume the one living idea, the I AM, as your present reality. In that state, your reasoning becomes discernment; your speech becomes conviction; and the world you observe reflects the harmony of your inner assumption.