Watchman Within: Morning and Night

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you the watchman is your I AM, the steadfast awareness that attends every scene. The morning and the night are not two places in time, but two moods of the one mind. When the watchman says the morning cometh as well as the night, he is telling you that the state you presently call 'now' carries both the fulfilled and the unfulfilled as possibilities. To inquire is to turn your attention by assumption, to ask of your own I AM what state you wish to inhabit. If you linger in the old dream, the night seems to persist; if you suppose the end already yours, the day breaks. The command 'return, come' is an invitation to revise the self you have identified with, and to step into the inner scene where your desire is already real. You do not seek externally; you imagine and dwell in the feeling of the wish fulfilled, and the outer becomes the natural expression of that inner state.