Inner Wealth, Outer Peace

Neville's Inner Vision

To the mind of Goddard, Proverbs is a map of inner states. The verse speaks not of budgets but of conditions of awareness. The fear of the LORD is the posture of worshipful attention, an abiding awareness that I AM governs all. When I dwell in that inner reverence, little appears as plenty, for I am not clinging to external abundance but aligned with perception that I AM is the sole source. Wealth without peace becomes trouble; but a dinner of herbs with love suggests savoring relationship inside the home of consciousness. The stalled ox is the life inflated by outward success yet emptied of harmony. A wrathful man stirs strife because his inner state generates external conflict. Yet the one slow to anger remains calm, and that calm acts like leaven, appeasing the whole loaf of circumstance. In this inner economy, imagination creates reality: I can revise any scene by assuming the feeling of settled peace, trusting that love and restraint yield true abundance.