From Inner Desolation to Wholeness

Neville's Inner Vision

Where you take these lines as external punishment, reinterpret them as the inner weather of your mind. The flesh imagery becomes the vivid picture of parts of your self you have identified as life yet have not honored in the I AM. Your high places and carved images are the fixed beliefs you cling to outside the living God of awareness. When life is oriented to icons, rituals, or status, the inner sanctuary loses its savor, and you feel abandoned by your own soul. The soul does not punish you; you have simply forgotten the place where you are always at home: the I AM that watches the dream. The desolation of your cities mirrors the mind’s memory of separation; your sanctuaries desolate because you have turned away from the Presence within. Return your attention to the one dwelling place that never fails, and the ruin rearranges into a new temple of conscious life—your own inner kingdom restored by the act of assumption.