Keeping Wisdom Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this verse you are called to treat wisdom as a state of consciousness rather than a distant rule. When you keep the wise precepts within you, they stop being external laws and begin to dress your mind—so the words that spill from your lips are the outward garment of an inner confession. The pleasantness stems from the alignment of your I AM with that inner law. In Neville's practice, imagination is the creative act; what you cherish internally becomes your spoken world. Therefore the act is revision: quietly assume the present tense state that you already harbor wisdom within, and speak from that inner wardrobe. The lips then become fitted to wisdom, not by effort but by inner consent.