Wise Speech, Foolish Pride

Neville's Inner Vision

Your word-practice is not about external judgments but about the speaker within you. The mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride because pride fascinates, inflates, and binds you to a restless self-image. When you identify with that voice, you create a whipping, punitive energy—an inner rod that lashes back through misfortune, words spoken that do not serve. The lips of the wise preserve them: the wise are those who refuse to feed the prideful self with loud, reactive speech. Their words are the gentle, precise articulation of a present awareness that remains calm, centered, and reverent. In Neville’s terms, God is the I AM behind all you say; when you imagine and feel from that state, your inner word preserves you and others by aligning with your true nature. You are not at the mercy of outward fate; your inner state, expressed as speech, curates your experience.