Inner Stones and Wood

Neville's Inner Vision

Ecclesiastes 10:9 speaks of the hazard that comes when one forcefully removes stones or splits wood; in Neville's tone, the stones and the wood are inner structures of your own consciousness. To remove them by brute effort is to injure the very instrument that performs your life: the I AM awareness you mistake for separation. When you attempt to clear the road by violence against your habit, you awaken a fear that your world will crumble, and so you injure yourself in the attempt. The correct interpretation is inward: you are not battling externals, you are revising the state you occupy. Decide that you are the one who creates both the obstacle and the ease; permit the stone to stand as a belief you no longer need, and watch it soften in imagination rather than through struggle. Hold the vision of the fulfilled wish and feel it real, here and now. By quiet inward assent, the block yields, not by force, but by the harmony of your I AM with the scene you desire.