Womb to Grave, Within

Neville's Inner Vision

In the Neville Goddard frame, this verse reveals the inner movement of consciousness rather than a fixed fate. The line, 'I should have been as though I had not been,' exposes a habit of mind that would cancel presence, a desire to vanish into non-being. But you are the I AM, the awareness that witnesses the dream of life. By revising from 'I should have been' to 'I AM here now,' you shift the entire scene from absence to presence. Treat the womb-to-grave arc as an inner script—the old pattern of suffering—that can be rewritten by imagination. See yourself not as a product of the pain or the passage of time, but as the I AM who dwells beyond it. Allow perseverance and hope to flower by choosing a present-tense identity that endures—an identity that does not end with the body but remains integral to consciousness. When you inhabit this inner state, the future emerges not as a distant promise but as a felt reality, and the trial becomes movement toward a more vivid sense of being.