The Shadowed Flower of Time

Neville's Inner Vision

Your verse teaches you to read existence as a shifting state of consciousness. 'Born of a woman' is not a lineage of flesh but a particular mindset, a house of fear or desire that shows up for a brief season. The 'few days' and 'trouble' are the short, recurring movements of mind when a desire presses or a pain is felt; the flower is the beauty you project, the vividness of a present experience; the shadow that flees is the vanishing image when you resist identification with it. Neville's method says you are not the trouble nor the flower nor the shadow, but the witness who notices them. The I AM, the awareness that says 'I am,' remains unmoved as the stage spins. When you identify with the enduring I AM, the sense of time contracts, and you perceive that endings are only appearance within consciousness. The persistent element is never the outer scene but the inner awareness that now, this moment, is complete and real. By assuming this reality, you revise the entire scene from within, and the troubling appearance loses its grip, dissolving into the light of being.