Inner Longevity, Inner Good

Neville's Inner Vision

In the Neville mode, the long life is not the measure of value but the stubborn belief that happiness arises from duration. The verse presents a man who has consumed years—'a thousand years twice told'—and yet has not tasted good, because he has not changed his inner state. In truth, all men do not share a single fate; they share a single state—the I AM that perceives. When you identify with a memory of lack or with the idea that life must proceed in years, you are binding the outer world to a false law. The remedy is to shift consciousness from temporal expectancy to imaginal assumption. See the inner man not as a body marching toward death but as the awareness that makes time and circumstance. If you insist that 'long life' equals fullness, you will always be waiting for a future good. If, on the other hand, you assume the good now, you awaken to the reality that the present I AM is the fountain of every blessing, and the outer place simply follows your inner state. Thus the 'one place' is a mental settlement you can leave by choosing a new sense of life.