Abide in the I Am

Neville's Inner Vision

John 15:6 is a map of your inner garden. The branch and the fire are symbols, not distant punishments, but movements of your own consciousness. If you do not abide in me—the I AM that you are in truth—you become a branch cut loose from sap and fruit; the withered form appears in your life as attention drifts, beliefs harden, and the outer events seem to be gathered for burnings. But notice: this is not a threat; it is a diagnostic and a call to revision. Abiding in me means dwelling in the conviction that you are life in union with Source, that separation is a thought, not a fact. When you imagine yourself as the living vine nourished by the One Life, your sense of self changes; the sap returns, your images regain color, and even apparent fires burn away the old limits. The 'gathering' and 'burning' are inner phenomena: the collapse of false identities and the birth of a steadier sense of oneness. Practice is the method: repeatedly assume 'I AM' as your real condition, and watch your world align with that remembered truth.