Roots Wrapped in Stones

Neville's Inner Vision

Your roots are the habits of thought that keep you fixed to a particular state of consciousness, the heap and stones are the conditions your awareness has allowed to define you. In this light, the words describe how a man clings to a difficult ground because he believes that is who he is. Yet the I AM behind all feeling is the true root and foundation. When you try to destroy the old self in its place or attempt to move the you you think you are from its seat, the outer world may respond with denial as if it never saw you. Neville would say there is only one reality you inhabit and that is the living I AM within. The external scene is simply the effect of a prior assumption, a reflection of a habit of consciousness. By choosing a new state and holding it with the feeling of its truth, you replant your roots in a regal soil where stones have no power to define you. The denial you fear dissolves as you recognize the inner observer, the I that is always aware, and that I am becomes your new climate.