Inner Return of Evil
Proverbs 17:13 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Proverbs 17 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse warns that rewarding evil for good invites trouble back into your own house. It points to a retributive cycle where inner choices shape outward outcomes.
Neville's Inner Vision
Your response is not merely a switch of actions; it is the tuning of your inner music. When you reward evil for good, you seal a thought into your own temple, and the door of your house creaks with the weight of resentment, and the evil you fear returns to rest upon your own heart. In truth, the world you experience is the dream you insist upon imagining. If you persist in retaliating with bitterness, you awaken a cycle of consequence that makes your days feel haunted by a guest you invited. But if you refuse to honor that old pattern and, in imagination, bless the very act you condemn, you reverse the flow. See the person who harmed you as already transformed by your good will; imagine them prospering through kindness seen only by your inner eye; feel the relief as your own consciousness loosens its grip on retributive habit, and the outside world follows the new tone you permit.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: In the moment of the impulse to retaliate, assume the other is blessed by your kindness and feel that blessing as real in your chest. Persist in that feeling until the old impulse dissolves.
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