Quiet Prayer, Inner Path

Neville's Inner Vision

Remember, you are not reading of a distant God but of the I AM within, the activity by which you imagine the world. When the cry in Lamentations seems to reach a silence, recognize it as a signal that your current state believes in separation from love and answer. The line about hewn stones around my ways and crooked paths is a description of the structure of your mind—habitual conclusions that constrict movement. The bear waiting and the lion in secret places are not external beasts but the inner fears that lurk behind your most cherished plans. Desolation and being pulled apart are the effects of identifying with those fears instead of with your truth. The bow bent and the arrows entering your reins symbolize the pain you carry as a fixed idea about your fate. Yet all these images are formed by your consciousness, not by some external judgment. The remedy is simple and sovereign: assume the feeling of being heard, beloved, and guided, and let the imagination redraw the landscape from within. As you persist in that inner state, the outer scene follows, and the old prison dissolves in the light of your awareness.