Ashes to Imagination Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of Job's ash-heap not as a plot in a distant book, but as a state of consciousness you inhabit when old identities crumble. The potsherd is not a weapon against the body but a symbol of self-scrutiny—a mental tool for removing what you have mistaken for selfhood. In Neville's practice, the moment you notice pain or limitation, you are called to withdraw belief from that image and to assume the I AM within; imagine that the 'I' remains intact while the outer form is emptied of meaning. When Job sits among ashes, he does not become the ashes; he discovers that awareness stands above them, and the dust can be transmuted by imagination. Your own interpretation mirrors this: let the sorrow or setback become a literal cutting away of a former self-image. Then feel your identity as the I AM, the quiet witness, expanding until the felt reality of limitation dissolves into freedom. The inner scene is the seed of regeneration; the outer trial merely shapes a new self by your inner decision to awaken.