Leaves of Now Revisited

Neville's Inner Vision

From Neville's lens, the verse is not about punishment but about the shifting weather of consciousness. The leaf and dry stubble are not enemies at all but symbols of passing thoughts blown by wind of emotion. The I AM within you is the constant awareness that witnesses all images; thus the line 'thou writest bitter things against me' is the habit of self-blame your mind flings at itself. The 'iniquities of my youth' are memories that you mistake for your present nature. When you assume that this self is ever the one described by such judgments, you imprison your sense of wholeness. Do you see that your awareness remains constant, even as the mind tosses fragments of past guilt? Your task is to revise the scene by assuming you are now the I AM who forgives, who refuses to carry yesterday's guilt into today. By dwelling in the feeling of being unconditionally complete, you detach the thoughts and images that label you.