Weighty Inner Stones

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville’s sense, the stone and sand are not quarrys of matter but states of consciousness you carry about you. The fool’s wrath is heavier than any outward weight because it is a reality you insist upon in the mind; envy stands as a subtle poison that dissolves your inner equilibrium, making you unable to stand steady before the imagined threat. When the verse says open rebuke is better than secret love, it points you to the healing act of honest awareness: a friend’s not-so-sweet correction is a mirror held to your state, revealing misalignment you may have accepted as normal. Faithful wounds are the mind’s truth-tellers; they wound through belief you have been separate from your ideal self, so you may rise into alignment. The kisses of an enemy are deceitful because they soothe you with illusion, keeping you in a trance of self-vanity. Your work is to withdraw attention from the heavy burdens and return to the I AM, the constant awareness that creates your world. Through disciplined assumption, you revise the inner weather until wrath, envy, and illusion dissolve into clarity.