Quiet Fire of Inner Peace

Neville's Inner Vision

Within every man lies a chamber where events are imagined before they show themselves in the outward world. Proverbs 26:20–22 tells you that the fire of strife cannot burn when the wood—talebearing—has not been laid in consciousness, for you alone supply the fuel. The talebearer is the inner whisper that repeats others' stories, judgments, and grievances, feeding separation. When you accept or entertain such tales, you feed the fire with fear, pride, and resentment; the sense of 'me against them' grows hotter, and conflict appears as an outer form of your inner state. The cure is simple but radical: withdraw your attention from the story and return to the I AM—the awareness that you are imagining. Replace the fuel with unity and truth that all are one in life. By refusing to give life to contention in your mind, you cool the fire; the wood disappears, and with it the quarrel. The seed of healing lies in recognizing that peace is already real within you, and that your imagination is the architect of your world.