Remembrance and Inner Roots

Neville's Inner Vision

The passage speaks in the language of outer ruin, yet the true drama is an inward state that believes itself uprooted. Roots feed life not in soil but in awareness; when one identifies with transient conditions—the name in the street or external reputation—the inner branch dries and remembrance of one’s true nature fades. This exile is the mind turning away from the I AM, from the certainty that consciousness creates reality. Yet judgment here is illuminating, not final: it invites reversal by returning to the Source. See the root and branch as features of a state of consciousness, not physical facts. If you imagine yourself as the I AM—the constant, unchanging awareness—you plant new roots by feeling your existence in the present moment as eternal. When the mind revises from dependence on outward names to the living presence within, old forgetfulness dissolves, and you awaken to a memory that cannot perish.