Inner Comfort in Desolation

Neville's Inner Vision

These two 'conditions' are not external tyrants but inner climates that your consciousness has rehearsed. Desolation and destruction, famine and the sword, are simply pictures your imagination has fed. They are events in consciousness, not punishments from an unhappy fate. The I AM within you—your true self, the awareness that you are—never leaves you; it is the one who comforts. When you insist that comfort come from without, you perpetuate the outer trouble. When you reverse and claim that the comfort you seek is already within, the entire scene dissolves. The comforting presence is the steady keynote of your mind; it does not demand surrender from events, but invites you to shift your inner state, to imagine that sorrow is merely a signal to return to the known truth of being. As you dwell in the feeling of being comforted, desolation loses its claim, and destruction ceases to govern your mood. The outer conditions then re-align with your new inner state. Rest in the I AM, and speak quietly: I am comforted by the God within me.