Inner Weeping for the Afflicted

Neville's Inner Vision

Now, think of Job’s question as the cry of your own I AM. The tears for the troubled and the soul’s grief for the poor are not a sensation outside you; they are inner movements of consciousness when you permit your awareness to identify with another’s lot. In Neville’s language, compassion is a state of being you can assume and revise until it becomes your habitual mood. When you say, I weep for him in trouble, you are not projecting pity; you are naming the very vibration of the I AM, the living presence that enfolds all forms. Your awareness expands into unity: there is no distance between your soul and another’s pain. Therefore you may revise any sense of separation by affirming that mercy already resides within you. As you dwell in that assumption, your outer world reflects your inner tenderness, and acts of mercy no longer seem unrewarded but simply the natural expression of your being. Practice this daily until the feeling becomes your circumstance.