Unripe Fruit, Inner Judgment

Neville's Inner Vision

In the Neville Goddard manner, the verse speaks of your inner state. The vine represents your awareness, and the unripe grape and olive flower symbolize beliefs, desires, and habits not yet matured by the I AM. The shaking is a revision of your consciousness, a divine pruning that drops away the old from which your present life grows. This is not punishment but a law of consciousness: as you change your inner scenery, the outer scene follows, shedding what is immature while you are guided toward maturity and mercy. The unripe grape is not rejected as failure; it is the seed of tomorrow's fruit, awaiting the inner sun of your new conviction. When you stand in the end—in your awareness as the I AM—you invite Providence to reorder events and reveal ripe fruit where you once saw only potential. Mercy flows to the discerning mind that lets the old flower fall away, trusting the cyclical growth of your inner garden.