Silence Your Self, Calm The World

Neville's Inner Vision

All the scenes of pride and wrath in this proverb map an inner economy of the mind. The 'lifting up' of self is a belief in separation from the I AM—an assumption that stirs the inner sea until it churns, producing the external washes we call life. When you 'lay your hand upon thy mouth,' you are practicing inner restraint, a decision to withhold impulsive speech that would inflame others. The milk-and-butter image and the nose-wrung image are allegories of inner cause and effect: when you force wrath, you force a division that inevitably becomes strife in your world. The remedy is not suppression, but alignment with the one living presence: the I AM within. Revise the assumption that you must prove yourself or punish another; instead, affirm that peace is already the reality of your being and let your imagination reflect that peace into your acts. So cultivate the consciousness that you are the I AM, observe thoughts without judgment, and allow your words to flow from calm rather than pride or anger. As you dwell in that state, your outer scenes begin to mirror the inner unity.