Buying Truth, Dismissing Excess

Neville's Inner Vision

Read as a map of consciousness, these verses invite you to drop the riot of appetite and answer to a steady inner authority. The winebibber and the glutton are pictures of a mind carried away by momentary pleasure; such a state inflates cravings and, in the next moment, leaves you poor in peace. Your father and mother stand for the stern, loving disciplines within—father as order and responsibility; mother as wisdom and nurture that keeps you from heedless craving. When you hearken to them, you refuse the counterfeit riches of sensation and choose a lasting currency: truth. Buy the truth, and sell it not; likewise buy wisdom and instruction and understanding, until they are your natural reaction, not a hard choice. Wealth here is inner certainty, a quiet revelation of what is real in you. The call to honor your elders becomes a call to protect the integrity of your consciousness as you grow in discernment and faithful living.