Inner Joy Beyond Exile

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inner theatre, the meat of life and the gladness of worship are not removed from you by external events; they only appear so when you identify with a state of absence. You are not banished from God, but awakening to the truth that the house of God is the consciousness you call I AM. When you perceive lack, you have treated consciousness as if it were a famine; yet the I AM within remains ever-full. Heal this by returning to the act of imaginative assumption: imagine the feast is present, declare the house of God overflows with joy, and feel the satisfaction of nourishment now. Imagination is the cause, not the effect; therefore revise the scene until your inner weather matches fullness. As you hold the feeling of the wish fulfilled, your outward life follows, and what was lost becomes a remembered state restored by the power you already are.