From Waste to Wonder

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, seek not to change God out there, but the inner governor of your own world. When Isaiah says I will make waste mountains and dry up all their herbs, imagine these mountains as stubborn beliefs that exalt themselves in your mind. When they become waste, the energy you spent upholding them is freed. Drying up the herbs is the withering of old certainties that fed a false sense of limitation. The rivers becoming islands speaks of streams of thought and desire that have become separated, cut from the expansive flow of life; drying the pools means the emotional tides that fed reaction are stilled by a new knowing. This is the work of the I AM within you, the you who is awake to imagination as reality. When you acknowledge that you are the one who creates your world, you align with the truth that transformation begins in consciousness. Your inner landscape is not fixed; it is formed by the act of attention and the beliefs you choose to keep or revise. By assuming a new state and dwelling in it, you invite in the feeling that the old outer scene has already changed.