Love Your Neighbor Now

Neville's Inner Vision

In this verse you are called to examine your inner weather. The 'neighbor' is not someone distant but a facet of your own consciousness, mirrored in others. To love thy neighbor as thyself is to align with the I AM that animates all, choosing inner harmony over the urge to retaliate. When you surrender the impulse to avenge or nurse a grudge, you dissolve a division within your own state of awareness and invite the same divine love to reflect through your world. The LORD, your grounding awareness, is not outside you but the steadfast I AM within you. As you practice, you discover that loving another is really a discipline of self-love—your willingness to see yourself in all beings and to respond from a peaceful center rather than from grievance. Each moment you forgive and release, you converge toward the universal life that you are, and the outer scene shifts to match this inner alignment. The neighbor becomes a mirror of your own wholeness, and love for neighbor is the reclamation of love for your inner self.