From Ashes to Awareness

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this verse, the outer cruelty is but a reflection of an inner state of consciousness. The bitterness, the wormwood, the broken teeth, and the ashes are not punishments laid on you by fate, but symptoms of a belief you have entertained in your mind. Your I AM—the awareness you are—has taken on a scenario and calls it real by the feeling it excites. If you insist that life must be bitter, you have made bitterness your reality. Neville taught that imagination is the law; to change the world, you must revise the state you hold. Do not fight the sensation; rather, close your eyes and assume a new state, declare, I AM the wholeness that cannot be broken, feel the relief and strength that follows. As you dwell in that feeling-it-real, the memory of bitterness loses its grip and your perception reconstitutes itself. The gravels melt, the ashes clear, and the teeth of your inner life are restored to health as your consciousness shifts.