Captive City Peace Meditation

Neville's Inner Vision

To Jeremiah’s command is not about geography but about consciousness. You are not truly exiled from God; you are the I AM experiencing through a specific thought and feeling. Seek the peace of the city, and you seek the peace of your own inner state, for the city’s serenity is the outer mirror of your inner atmosphere. The prayer is a creative act that awakens harmony within you, not a petition to a distant Power. See the streets and dwellings of your city as already at ease; imagine the people moving in calm, the days filled with ease, the atmosphere cleared of fear. When you intentionally image this peace, you dissolve the sense of separation and enter the natural state of your own mind’s harmony. The exile dissolves the moment you accept that the I AM is within, and peace is a present-tense condition you choose to inhabit. In the peace of the city you reside, you discover your own perpetual peace.