The High Things Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the 'high' and 'lifted up' are not distant hills but the restless states of consciousness that cling to status, wealth, and appearances. The cedars and oaks, the mountains and towers, the ships and pictures are inner portraits of a mind convinced that its value rests in what it can show to others. In Neville’s terms, these are not external landmarks to fear; they are persistent scripts playing in the imagination. When you identify with them, you project a world that prizes grandeur, separation, and security through possessions. Yet the moment you attend to the inner I AM— the awareness that you are the one option in all you behold—the appetite for outer grandeur loses its grip. The judgment Isaiah prophesies is the inner reckoning that the ego’s kingdoms dissolve in the light of true consciousness. The presence you are is unaffected by how tall a tower looks or how splendid a ship appears; everything external is a reflection of your inner belief about yourself. Rest in the realizing that the only power that lasts is the I AM within, and all 'high' things bow to your awareness.