Turn Toward the Inner Self

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the cry as a cry of the self to itself. The speaker asks why the I AM seems forgetful and distant; yet the answer lies not in pleading outside, but in reinterpreting the memory of separation as a change of state. When you say, 'Turn thou us unto thee,' you are not petitioning a separate God to come near; you are waking to the fact that you already are the I AM, and by assuming that you are turned toward that presence, you are turned. To 'renew our days as of old' is a call to re-create your life by the imagination that you are new in awareness, that your past forgetfulness is a condition of mind that can be revised. Live from the feeling that God is present now, that you are already in covenant with the eternal in you. The turning is a shift of state, not a change of place; the longing becomes the method, and the method becomes the life you inhabit.