Inner Labor & Speech

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of labor not as toil upon a world of chance but as an inward act of consciousness. He that laboureth laboureth for himself declares that every effort is an assignment to your own state, for the mouth craveth it of him. The ungodly man and his burning fire of words are the outward theatre of a mind split by fear, greed, and pride. When a froward man sows strife or a whisperer splits friends, it is only the present imagination imagining itself as power; the world yields in accord with the image you hold. Therefore the remedy is not struggle in the outer world but a revision within: assume the state you desire as already true; feel the unity, kindness, and steadfastness as your habitual state; speak from that wholeness; imagine relationships rearranged in harmony. By dwelling in the feeling of completion, the violent impulse loses its claim, and the path becomes the one that is good. Remember you are not at the mercy of others schemes; you are the I AM, the awareness that creates every scene you inhabit.