Inner Waters of Adversity

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, these lines reveal not a man besieged by chance, but a state of consciousness under pressure. The 'waters' are the currents of belief that surge when one forgets the I AM. The desolation is not merely external ruin; it is the inner weather produced by a thought that life is broken, that welfare is outside. When you read, 'they came upon me,' you hear the voice of a man who has entered a fallen dream, yet the I AM remains unaltered behind it all. The trick is not to battle the waves but to acknowledge you are the one who imagines them and to assume a new inner posture. If you accept that the self is the perceiver and the scene you observe is a drift of consciousness, you can revise the scene by declaring, in effect, 'I AM the source of all that flows and holds; this storm is an appearance that I can command to cease by recognizing my present power.' In that moment the water recedes, and welfare returns as the stable ground of awareness.