Terrors Like Waters Within

Neville's Inner Vision

To the awakened follower of I AM, this verse is not a record of conquest by external events but a map of inner weather. Terrors that grip the man are the convulsions of his own state of consciousness, waters that rise when thought believes in separation from the truth of its own enduring I AM. The night is only the belief that conditions govern you, not your awareness. In Neville's language, the storm is an assumption you have accepted about yourself; you can revise it by returning to the stable, unconditioned awareness that you are, which does not come and go with fear. By imagining yourself already beyond the flood—dwelling in the consciousness that merely watches the waters—the outside gusts cannot pull you from your true center. Replace the fear's motion with the still, quiet I AM Presence, and notice how the tempest subsides as you keep faith in the inner kingdom. Endurance arises not by battling the night, but by abiding as the night cannot touch.