Inner Obedience Reframed

Neville's Inner Vision

Your mind hears the boast and says: I am looking at a state of consciousness, not a history of deeds. In Neville's teaching, the 'ruler' is a symbol of a fixed self, a self-image that believes it has performed all laws from youth. The truth is, no one keeps the law by effort; the I AM awakens the law through you. Therefore forget the boast and revise: 'I have not kept the commandments by my strength; the I AM within me keeps them now.' Feel it: the solid, quiet awareness that translates every outward rule into inner harmony. When you inhabit that state, you stop seeking approval from laws and begin living from the essence that you are. The inner kingdom responds not to outward compliance but to the conviction that you are the Image in which the law expresses itself. So the man’s claim is not a victory but a mirror showing you where to turn: from striving to simply being, from self-will to recognition of the I AM within, through whom all commandments are fulfilled.