The Heart's Own Counsel

Neville's Inner Vision

God's word here is an inner law: when I cling to the heart's lust, I am handed over to that restless state and I walk by my own mental counsels. But I am not a separate creature trying to fix the world; I am the I AM, the awareness that chooses which state I inhabit. If I persist in imagining myself governed by egoic cravings, my life mirrors that fantasy, for imagination births reality and I live from the picture I hold. To reverse this, I must assume a new state of consciousness—one in which divine guidance, not appetite, leads. I quietly align with the inner I AM, feel the truth of being taught by that Presence, and let the old craving fade as a dream. In that altered state, the outer conditions begin to reflect peace, order, and sensible counsel that come from within rather than from the chest's impulses.