The Comforter Within Oppression

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider this scene not as a mere external event but as a stream of inner states. Oppression under the sun appears when I identify with limiting thoughts and feelings; the tears of the oppressed are the body's response to forgotten awareness. The comforter is never outside you: it is the I AM—the living awareness that remains when images rise and fall. The power of the oppressors is the habit of giving authority to appearances; in truth there is no power apart from your own awareness. The praise of the dead over the living points to a shift you can make: the dead are states of stillness you can awaken within the living moment. When you align with the inner consciousness that never leaves, you discover that the scene can be revised. Imagination becomes the instrument by which you move into a state that feels real — a space of calm, not reaction. In that inner freedom, the entire under-the-sun drama loses its grip, and you remember your unity with God, the unchanging I AM behind every circumstance.