The Inner Command To Love

Neville's Inner Vision

John 15:12 speaks of a commandment, but in the Neville lens, commandments are states of consciousness you enter, not rules you enact from without. To love one another as I have loved you is to recognize that the beloved is the I AM within you and within every seeming other. When you imagine another as a living expression of your own divine life, you dissolve distance and awaken unity. Christ’s love is the steady, unselfish attention of consciousness—the will to see the good of another as you would see the good of your own soul, without demand or fear. If you sense separation, you have merely pictured a lack within your own mind; revise that picture until you feel the bond, the touch of shared life. The commandment becomes practical: dwell in the feeling that you are one with all, and treat each person as the living presence of God in you. As you persist in that inner state, your world rearranges itself to reflect the harmony you have assumed.