Inner Hunger vs Sword

Neville's Inner Vision

Two forms of death are named—one sudden by the sword, one slow by hunger. Yet in the mystical sense, neither is inflicted upon you from without; both are states of your own consciousness you have accepted as real. The sword marks an abrupt change in outer conditions; hunger marks a persistent belief in lack. The inner reader sees that the body does not die first; the mind dies to its sense of sufficiency. You are not the victim of famine but the living I AM—the eternal awareness I call God within, which cannot be depleted. The 'fruits of the field' are the nourishing signs born of your imagination. When you can feel the fullness, you have ended the famine by choosing a different state. Begin by assuming that you are always sustained, that your life is maintained by an inexhaustible reservoir within. In that all-quiet, all-embracing awareness, the apparent crisis dissolves, and the world rearranges to reflect your new inner state.