Breath of Inner Union

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture the breath as the living sign of your present state of consciousness. When Job calls his breath 'strange' to his wife, it is not a failing of flesh but a clue that the inner relation—the I AM you are—has fallen out of alignment with the inner economy of your marriage and future. The wife and the children in the text are symbolic forms within your consciousness: a wife as your relationship to life’s affectionate energy, children as the outcomes of your inner life. The distress is a signal that your assumption about yourself and others has grown rigid. Neville teaches that outward change follows from shifting the inner state. So, inwardly assume a new sense: you are one with your wife in perfect communion; your breath returns to her as a mutual life-breath; your prayers for the children become a stable feeling of protection and unity. Rest in the awareness that you already possess the state you seek, and reality will bend to that living conviction.