Turning Wrath Into Peace

Neville's Inner Vision

Your proverb is not a lesson about others; it is a map of your inner states. Scorn is a restless I AM clinging to judgment, and such energy creates the 'city' of your experience as if driven by fear. The moment you identify with scorn, every outward scene mirrors a storm. But the wise man is a distinct inner posture: an assumption of peace that refuses to amplify anger. I AM is the witness behind all thoughts; when you align with that witness, you revise the scene by declaring, 'I am the calm observer, and I turn away wrath.' Feel it as real now: the impulse of scorn rises, and you let it pass through with no reaction, letting your inner state govern the outer moment. In this way, imagination creates reality: by assuming the end—the city free, the people gentle, the moment transformed—you awaken that condition as your lived experience. The verse thus invites you to choose the wise state and dwell there until it expands outward, dissolving the snare of retaliation and inviting harmony.