The Inner Sacrifice Of Love

Neville's Inner Vision

Here, the love of God is not a distant event but a state of consciousness you enter. In Neville’s terms, God is the I AM—the wakeful awareness within you. When you imagine yourself laying down your ego, preferences, and fear for another, you are not performing a mere mercy; you are summoning the memory of your true self, the self that loves unreservedly. The brethren are the other aspects of your life—mind, body, and heart—made one by the act of self-forgetful service. Christ’s laying down of life becomes an inner rhythm: a deliberate assumption, a quiet revision of self-identity, and a new feeling-state that shifts inner weather and then outer events. By imagining you have already laid down the life, you invite that life-giving energy to flow through you, revealing God’s love as a present, usable fact of awareness. Practice the feeling of the wish fulfilled: you are the I AM, and your consciousness chooses love for others now.