Forward Gaze, Steady Path

Neville's Inner Vision

Your consciousness is the eyes that see and the feet that move. When you fix your gaze straight ahead, you are choosing the state of awareness in which you live. The instruction to let your eyelids look right before thee is a precise instruction to practice attention, to refuse wandering thoughts and to hold to the inner line you have drawn in imagination. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established: this is the discipline of habit, the steady refinement of acts that confirm your ongoing state. Do not turn to the right or left—reject the pulse of fear, envy, or doubt that tempts you away from your chosen end. Remove thy foot from evil means detach from any imaginal scene that contradicts your end. In this light, the verse becomes a doorway: as you imagine yourself standing in a state of unwavering alignment, the outer world rearranges to mirror that inner law. The path is not a road but a rhythm of consciousness that you walk by assumption.