Quiet Mind in Proverbs 17:1-5

Neville's Inner Vision

Your day is the inner room where decisions are made. Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifices with strife, for inner peace carries more power than outward ritual. The wise servant who rules over the son that stirs shame discovers that true inheritance comes from ruling the restless mind rather than from external wealth. The fining pot and the furnace speak of the inner tests by which the heart is refined; the Lord trieth the hearts is your awareness testing what you cherish in consciousness. A wicked doer heeds false lips, and a liar lends an ear to a naughty tongue, indicating that the world of speech mirrors your inner alignments. Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth the Maker; to rejoice at calamities shows alignment with a dream that denies reality. These verses invite you to a practical reorientation: your state of consciousness creates the world you call real. If you desire a calmer, kinder life, assume that quiet state and let it unfold as your experience.