Inner Peace, Outer Harmony

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville Goddard, Romans 12:18 is not a social directive but a spiritual law: peace is not found by taming others, but by governing your own state of consciousness. If it is possible, as much as lieth in you, you must attend to the inner climate from which actions flow. Your world is a projection of the I AM you entertain in thought. The moment you assume, 'I live peaceably with all,' you are not begging the universe for peace; you are fixing the inside scenery so that the outer events cannot contradict it. Begin with the feeling of calm in your chest, imagine each person as a reflection of your inner harmony, and let your response to them be gentle, patient, and non-resistive. When you revise a difficult encounter, you do not compel the other; you revise your own sense of separation and rest in the universal oneness you already are. The most practical step is to practice this assumption until it feels more real than the old tension. Peace then becomes your state, and the world follows.