The Inner Garden of Life

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, the garden is your consciousness and the ground is your awareness. The verse teaches that life and discernment spring forth from within, not from external fate. The tree of life represents the constant vitality of I AM awareness, while the tree of the knowledge of good and evil embodies the mind’s power to discern contrasts and make choices. Both trees are planted by the same ground, indicating that all experiences arise from your inner state. Providence and guidance are the intimate movements of your own consciousness aligning with the I AM. The center of the garden, where the tree of life stands, marks the stable focal point of awareness you must rest in. When you dwell in the life-tree, you simply affirm your continuous presence; when you entertain the knowledge-tree, you practice mindful discernment, recognizing contrasts without fleeing from them. In this reading, moral labels are provisional stages: you may revise them into harmonized order by your imaginative faith that you are one with God. The task is to hold the truth of your unity and allow the garden to reflect that unity here and now.