Inner Reins of Discipline

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the horse and donkey as your restless faculties—ambition, craving, habit—pulling you toward unconscious action. The whip, the bridle, and the rod are not punishments from without but reminders that your state of consciousness requires discipline. If life presses you into old patterns, remember you are imagining reality into being; you can revise that image. The I AM within you is not a distant deity but the awareness that watches thoughts and decides what you accept as real. To heal the fool, you do not argue with the outer world; you revise your inner picture until the driver appears in you and the reins are in your hands. When you imagine governing your impulses with calm authority, you awaken a new inner weather: impulses guided by a clear decision that “I am the master of my mind.” Then what seemed like punishment becomes a natural rhythm of self-control, and the outer tools become signs of the inner order you have chosen.