Inner Neighbor Light

Neville's Inner Vision

These verses do not describe a distant act of charity, but the shift of your own inner vision. The man robbed and left by the road stands for the stirred, wounded consciousness you carry within. The priests and Levite represent the habit of judgment and avoidance; the Samaritan is the mercy that arises when you, the I AM, refuse to separate yourself from another's pain. To be neighbor is not to perform a deed apart from yourself, but to awaken to the state where mercy is your natural response. When you imagine yourself as the compassionate presence—the one who binds wounds with silent alchemy—you are building a reality where care becomes your habitual atmosphere. The 'Go, and do thou likewise' is a directive to dwell in the awareness that you already possess the power to render help. Do not seek it in willpower alone; assume the feeling of being already merciful, and actions will follow as a natural outflow of that inner state. Your world must reflect the consciousness you hold. Mercy is not earned; it is awakened.