Inner Peace for Unity

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, the whole congregation is your I AM, and the rock Rimmon is any fixed, separatist mindset you have allowed to fracture your inner unity. When you speak peaceably to Benjamin, you are addressing that stubborn attitude, not a person, and you call forth a shift in feeling rather than a concession of will. The act of giving wives saved from Jabesh-Gilead symbolizes supplying life to forgotten or banished parts of yourself with nourishing ideas and memories; yet the passage says they sufficed them not, a gentle reminder that mercy alone cannot complete reconciliation without your inner assent. The key is to realize that the state of peace is not something to obtain from others but a realization you grant yourself now. Assume that the divided factions within your consciousness have found their true mate in unity, that the return of Benjamin is a return to wholeness in your own awareness. Dwell in the feeling of complete harmony, and imagine the scene already accomplished: the inner assembly reconciled, the rocks of resistance dissolved, and life flowing through every channel. In that act, your outer world follows the inner alignment you've already declared.