Inner Harvest of Mercy

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine the owner of the fig tree as your I AM—the conscious awareness that never leaves you. The fig tree itself is a state of mind you are presently cultivating. The gardener, the inner imaginative faculty paired with disciplined feeling, digs about the soil and dunging it with rich, definite states of consciousness. When you hear, 'Let it alone this year,' do not read it as neglect; read it as permission to let a fresh state take root through patient inner work. To dig about it is to sift through worn beliefs and remove stony habits; to dung it is to feed the mind with a vivid sense of the fruit as already here. As you assume the new state, you water it with feeling, you sun it with attention, you watch for signs of fruit in your life. If there is fruit, the new state has proven itself; if not, you have learned the discipline and you revise again. Mercy is the invitation to renew your mind until your life bears fruit, for you are the I AM and the fruit is your natural expression.