Inner Battle of Suffering

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Job’s torment, you are not being punished, you are being taught to witness. The wearying, desolate state is your current inner mood, a picture formed by your attention. The wrinkles, the broken ease, the teeth and eyes of an unseen foe are the thoughts and beliefs that jeer at your power. When you name it that God has delivered you to the ungodly, you glimpse that the outer scene mirrors an inner decision you made about yourself. In Neville’s luminous perspective, the true war is within: you are the I AM that watches these images, and you can revise them by turning away from identification with the image of conflict. Each breach upon breach and every giant reflects an old self-image clinging to pain; but the moment you assume the state of awareness that creates the image, the scene changes. The enemy loses its claim, the reins loosen, and the gall drains from the ground as you realize you created the picture and can un-create it with imagination.