Inner Vigil of I AM

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, in this passage the heart is pictured as one that would entertain terror and tally the so called defenses of life—the scribes, the receivers, the counters. But there is no enemy out there except the imagery you allow to rule your inner weather. The fierce people and their deeper speech are not coming from without; they are the habitual thoughts you have become aware of through your attention. When you identify with the I AM your constant, unchanging aware presence the external world loses its power to threaten. The mind that meditates terror is the mind that lives in yesterday or tomorrow, not in this moment of serene awareness. You may choose to reinterpret every observer, every calculator, every tongue as figures in a dream you can revise. If you persist in feeling the I AM as your real source, you will find that the language you cannot understand dissolves into silence, and you perceive a world that is calm, intelligible, and safe because you are the one who gives it form. So revise your inner speech declare I am the observer of all events; my peace is the law of my life.