Inner Watchfulness of Speech

Neville's Inner Vision

View these lines as a map of the inner state you inhabit. Set a watch before the mouth means reside in the I AM and allow that awareness to govern every word that passes into expression. The door of the lips is not a barrier of denial but a gateway to alignment between imagination and speech. Do not incline your heart to evil thoughts or to partake in the cravings that the world offers; when you sense such invitations, revise them by returning to the truth that you are the I AM, unshaken by appearances. Do not eat of their dainties; take instead the nourishment of truthful impression, the feeling that your inner kitchen is peaceful, and that your inner self chooses only what is life and love. Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness; let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil. In Neville's language, even correction is anointing that holds the head upright and keeps your prayer constant in the face of calamity. The outer world is the stage, but your state of consciousness is the actor and director of all that appears.