Quiet Tongue, Peaceful Heart Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Your tongue is the outward sign of an inner state. To keep it from evil and guile is to refuse to voice the thoughts that betray your true I AM. The psalmist is inviting you to shift your inner atmosphere so that deceit, sarcasm, or backbiting no longer arise as stimuli of your day. Depart from evil and do good; seek peace, and pursue it — these are not commands to a future self, but instructions for the living present: revise your inner scene until the world around you reflects that discernment. When you refuse to react in fear or judgment and choose kindness, you are simply choosing the state of consciousness that already exists within you. The practice is to imagine yourself as one whose speech is pure and whose actions build harmony. As you align your inner conviction with truth, you awaken to the fact that God, the I AM, is your continuous awareness; peace follows as natural consequence, not as struggle. Your environment responds to your inner shift, manifesting the quiet integrity of the realm you have assumed.