Charity: Your Inner State

Neville's Inner Vision

Charity, in the scripture sense, is not an emotion you acquire by effort, but the state of awareness you consistently inhabit. When you imagine yourself as separate, fearful, or reactive, you are dwelling in a counterfeit sense of self. The true 'I'—the I AM—is charity: patient, kind, unenvying, unboastful, unself-seeking, and calm under provocation. To believe in this verse is to recognize that life moves within your inner consciousness, and every outward friction is but a signal to revise the inner scene. The inner state of grace rejoices in truth rather than in error; charity does not cling to illusions. It bears all things by remaining steadfast in your inner light, believeth all things by affirming the good you desire, hopeth all things by trusting the unseen future as already fulfilled, and endureth all things by remaining unmoved in the awareness that you are love. Practice thus: assume the feeling that you are the embodiment of this charity here and now, and let your imagination renew your state until it becomes your natural habit.