Inner Comfort in Sorrow

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Jeremiah’s line, you are told of a sorrow that arrives when you seek solace in the old habits of the mind. Sorrow is not an external wound but a present state of consciousness, a faintness of the I AM when it forgets itself in reaction. To comfort the self is to try to quiet the wind, and the wind only grows louder until you realize you are the wind-breaker. The inner God—your I AM—does not soothe from without; it awakens by assuming a larger self that does not tremble at sorrow. So, imagine yourself as the I AM that comforts, not as the one who is comforted. Enter your present moment as the witness who knows itself as complete. When your heart grows faint, let a simple revised assumption arise: I am the steady I AM that knows sorrow but is not moved by it. With that assumption, the sense of heaviness loosens, and you discover an inner quiet that has been there all along, awaiting your recognition. Your inner comfort comes from the awareness that you are, and always were, the infinite witness of all experiences.