Five Stones Of Inner Victory

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the inner realm, the brook is the stream of life; the five smooth stones are the five steadfast faculties you have, waiting in the bag of your consciousness for use when fear rises. David, the I AM in action, places these stones in readiness, not to conquer a man in the ordinary sense but to reveal what your imagination can do. The staff he carries is the discipline of attention; the sling is the directed thought that acts on belief. As you draw near to your Goliath—fear, limitation, habit—you stand in the knowing that the outer event is only the outward sign of an inward movement. The stones are not random; they are the appointed ideas by which you assert your power. By choosing them from the brook, you acknowledge that your inner life supplies the raw material of reality. In this reading, providence is not a distant outside force but your own conviction that you already possess the means to meet any challenge. The moment you assume the feeling of victory, the 'outsider' becomes an inner ally.