One Body, Shared Suffering

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the text does not ask us to visit prisons or counsel the afflicted as distant charity. It invites us to awaken to a unity already present in consciousness: remember them in bonds as bound with you because you and they are one body of life. In Neville's language, every outer condition reflects an inner state. To truly know this, you must imagine the other as already whole in your I AM. When you hold in mind the prisoner or the sufferer, you are not feeding pity; you are aligning your inner state with the truth that you are the awareness in which their experience unfolds. Uproot fear by assuming the feeling of commonality, the sense that pain and freedom reside in the same living center. As you persist in this assumption, the outer appearances respond to the inner shift; the sense of separation dissolves, replaced by mercy, unity, and a practical kindness that begins within you.