Weeping Eyes, Inner Restoration

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the I that speaks is consciousness itself, stirred to tears by the sense that the inside world mirrors a breach in the outer city. The field and the city are not places but inner dispositions—states of alertness and fear that presume loss. The sword and famine are inner pressures that aggressive thinking imposes when attention is fixed on lack. When Jeremiah says the prophet and the priest go about in a land they know not, he reveals how a mind anchored in outer signs loses its bearings, wandering in unfamiliar terrain of doubt. But in Neville's reading, the cry is not of doom, but of awakeness becoming aware that all exile and death are creations of consciousness that can be revised. The tears themselves signal the movement of awareness toward a new assumption: that I AM is the only reality, and that the apparent breaches can be healed by a voluntary shift of attention. If I change what I accept as true in my inner life, the outer scene conforms.