Inner Water Bridges of Self

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider that the woman and Jesus are not merely people in a story but states of consciousness within you. The well stands for the source of life in awareness, and the request 'Give me to drink' is the I AM asking the lesser self to drink from the higher self. The barrier 'for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans' is a pattern of separation that your mind projects when it fears difference. When you acknowledge the other state—whether it appears Jew or Samaritan in your memory—you invite the living water to flow freely. The disciples' absence signals the withdrawal of old constructs to make room for direct knowing. As you assume harmony between seeming opposites, the barrier dissolves and a new sense of kinship emerges: you are drinking from the same water, the water of life within. The 'living water' is not a thing out there; it is awareness itself refreshing every part of you and making all divisions moot. Thus, the path to true worship is not in place but in the consciousness that never separates from itself.