Inner Race, Eternal Prize

Neville's Inner Vision

To the inner ear, this apostolic metaphor is not about outward track and medals, but about the state you inhabit. The race is your inner climate: you are the runner and the track is your thought-world. When you discipline your desires, you are temperate in all things; you are aligning your inner I AM with a single, deliberate posture. The prize is incorruptible because it is a state of consciousness, not a trophy. Do not run uncertainly or strike the air; instead, cultivate vivid, concrete assumption. When you preach to others, you must also guard your own heart, lest you become a castaway of your own imagining. Bring under your body—your bodily impulses, your egoic tendencies—into subjection by practicing the assumed state until it feels natural. If you forget, revise: return to the feeling of already possessing the crown, return to the conscious assurance that you are the I AM. In that moment you preach to others and yourself, for you are witnessing a living reality of your own inner victory.