Inner Discipline, Inner Wisdom

Neville's Inner Vision

All verses of scripture are states of consciousness in action. The rod and reproof are not sticks and rebukes in the external world, but interior images by which you discipline your own thoughts. The 'child' is the impulsive part of your mind, the tendency to wander from my inner truth; the 'mother' is the inner life that bears the fruit of your inner movements. When you permit the child to roam without direction, the inner life is brought to 'shame'—not by judgment from others, but by the collapse of harmony in your own awareness. The wise man or woman simply refuses to identify with the child's impulse; they re-imagine the scene, insisting that the Self is the ruler of thoughts and feelings. The rod and reproof become gentle, decisive affirmations that reinstate order in consciousness. In this light, discipline is not a denial of joy but a clear act of attention, alignment, and imagining a wiser state as already real. You are the Broadcasting I AM; imagination creates your experience.