The Inner Law Of Eternal Life

Neville's Inner Vision

In this moment, the lawyer stands as a symbol of the conscious mind clinging to rules, seeking to control outcomes by outward behavior. But the speaker — the I AM within you — asks, 'What is written in the law? how readest thou?' The answer is not a future condition but an inner state you can assume now: love God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind; and love your neighbor as yourself. When you read the commandment as a description of your true feeling, life ceases to be a puzzle to solve and becomes a condition you cultivate. To 'inherit eternal life' is to live in the constant, uninterrupted awareness that you are One with the very Source that you call God. The neighbor is merely a reflection of your own wholeness, a portion of the same I AM you awaken to. Therefore obedience is not effort but recognition: you revise any sense of separation, you assume the accomplished fact of love, and you feel the life you seek as already present in you now. The law is internally satisfied by your conscious state, not by external acts alone.