Inner Corrections: Wisdom Emerges
Proverbs 21:11 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Proverbs 21 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The proverb states that punishing the scorner makes the simple wiser, and instructing the wise yields knowledge.
Neville's Inner Vision
Picture the 'scorner' as a stubborn attitude within you that mocks your own transforming truth. If you cling to that sneering posture, you keep your mind in hardness and delay the simple awakening. Yet punishment here is not judgment from without, but the inner consequence of refusing to revise your assumptions. When you encounter correction of that scornful state—through life events, a guiding insight, or quiet interior revision—you allow the simple you to see with a clearer eye and grow wise. The wise, already open to change, receives instruction as an invitation to a deeper knowledge that was always present in you but obscured by doubt. In Neville's terms, you are not changing outer circumstances; you are shifting states of consciousness. As you refuse the ego's sneer and assume the feeling of the wiser self, knowledge reveals itself as the natural result of inner alignment. Your inner discipline becomes the outer wisdom you confer upon your world.
Practice This Now
Imaginative Act: Assume the state of the wise, the observer who knows. Revise a limiting belief by affirming 'I am wise now' and feel that certainty flooding your mind.
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