Ignorance and the I Am: Inner Knowing

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, ignorance is not a cosmic punishment but a state of consciousness. It is an inner unknowing, a belief in lack that arises within you or around you. The directive is not to battle the ignorant mind outwardly but to return to your own inner state of knowing. Your true I AM—your living awareness—remains untouched by others' claims of untruth. When you encounter ignorance, you are invited to detach from the need to correct and instead anchor yourself in the certainty of your own aware presence. By choosing to dwell as the knowing I AM, you convert the situation from a clash of minds into a cultivation of inner truth. The verse thus becomes a doorway to humility: release the ego's demand for external judgment and awaken the power of your inner consciousness, which alone fashions your reality.