Inner Shepherds and Healing

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the I AM, this passage reveals your inner shepherds as states of consciousness. The diseased, the sick, the broken, and the lost are not outsiders but aspects of your own awareness that have forgotten themselves. When your inner shepherd rules with force or cruelty, you experience life as coercion and separation, and healing stalls. The remedy is the opposite: assume the healed state now, and tend with mercy to every wounded part as a task of consciousness. Bind up the broken by restoring your inner image; seek the lost by revisiting neglected beliefs and feelings; bring what was driven away back into your center. Mercy replaces judgment, and your outer world reflects this new inner governance. You are not condemned but invited to awaken the benevolent shepherd within, who leads with tenderness, wisdom, and the certainty that all is already healed in consciousness.