Inner Fire and Desolate Streets

Neville's Inner Vision

I hear Jeremiah as a whisper to the I AM within me. The fury poured forth is not punishment against me, but a signal of a state I am entertaining. The 'cities' and 'streets' are my fixed patterns of thought, the habits I mistake as solid world. When I cling to them, desolation follows; when I loosen my grip and turn to imagination, the inner fire burns away the old dream and makes space for a new life. The verse invites me to observe the claim of anger without feeding it. See that anger is a mental state I can revise, not a fate I must endure. By choosing to imagine the end I desire, I replace the ruin with a living city of peace, health, and right relationship. Imagination creates the conditions of my life; the present emptiness is only a signal to revise my state of consciousness. The exile is the stripping away of false self-conceptions, the return is the dawn of a consciousness that recognizes itself as the I AM, the source of all I experience.