Inner Commandments for Living

Neville's Inner Vision

In the Neville-voice, the text isn't a list of external rulings imposed upon you from outside, but a description of the state you inhabit. The 'Thou shalt not' commands point to the inner condition from which your world arises. murder becomes the inner homicide of a denying thought; adultery is the betrayal of wholeness by clinging to scarcity or separation; theft is taking from your own reservoir of life by fear; false witness is the mis-creation born of a doubting imagination. Honoring father and mother is honoring the roots of your being—the source and nurture of your present self—recognizing that authority is the I AM within. And loving your neighbor as yourself is the recognition that there is only one life, one consciousness, and that the other is you in disguise. When you assume the state of that love, you are not obeying an external rule; you are awakening to the fact that your imagination, rightly directed, creates harmony, truth, and flourishing relationships. The commandments shift from duty to the inner law of your kingdom.