Inner Porch of Consciousness

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the porch as the visible edge of your inner house. The length twenty cubits and breadth ten are not stone measures; they symbolize orderly proportions of your awareness—how far you let your attention extend, and how firmly you keep the center sacred. Before the temple, the porch stands as a threshold where imagination may prepare itself to enter worship. In your life, the inner room is the temple of God, the I AM that you are. The porch’s dimension of balance—twenty by ten—speaks of harmonizing the outer activity (the long stretch of thoughts and deeds) with the inner stillness (the compact breadth of attention). By attending to this threshold, you discipline your thoughts so that they don’t rush blindly into the holy of holies, but come with reverence. When you assume you are already within the temple, when you align feeling with your deepest sense of presence, you empower the very space you inhabit. The porch is not a barrier but a gate through which your awareness approaches the divine within.