Fire Within The Inner Tongue

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the line as a moment of states-of-consciousness. The heat within is the energy of a belief you are entertaining, not a mere feeling to be endured. When you muse, you are rehearsing the world you intend to live in; the fire that burns signals a turning of attention toward a genuine inner image. The psalmist does not condemn the heat, he uses it as the engine that moves perception from inward imagining to outward utterance. In Neville's terms, you are the I AM, the awareness that chooses a state and tends it by imagining and feeling. When you allow the inner heat to burn and then train your mind on the end you desire—as if it already exists—the spoken word aligns with that state. Your tongue becomes the instrument through which the inner conviction expresses itself. Do not seek to command circumstances; revise your assumption until the inner weather settles into calm confidence. By honoring the inner movement, you convert thought into form.