Inner Reproof and the I AM

Neville's Inner Vision

Correction is not punishment but a signal from the inner governor. When a man distrusts the way, reproof feels grievous because it challenges his fixed image of self. Yet reproof is the calling card of the I AM awakening a more faithful alignment. In Neville's language, the law is your impression; to hate correction is to resist the new state you imagine yourself into. The moment you permit correction, you revise your self-concept and invite a new movement of consciousness. The 'death' here is not physical but the end of the old identity—an identity built on stubbornness and separation; the new life arises when you accept discipline as guidance from your inner king. So, practice: assume the state that you welcome correction as a beloved messenger; feel the reality of the reproof as a compass pointing toward a higher pattern of living; imagine yourself as someone who hears reproof gratefully and responds with obedience to the inner law.