Immediate Inner Departure

Neville's Inner Vision

The day spoken of is the present moment of your inner life. The rooftop and the house with its 'stuff' are not places but states of consciousness—attitudes and beliefs you insist are you. When you stay with 'the stuff' or look back toward a former self, you are choosing to identify with a fading image; remember Lot's wife as the symbol of that backward glance. The command not to descend or return is the discipline of the mind to refuse to feed fear and craving into your next experience. To seek to 'save' the life of your present ego is to insist on a separated self; such insistence dissolves the new state. To lose the life of the old self is to align with the true Life, the I AM that already you are. Your imagination is not a story but the instrument by which you are convinced of your state; by holding steadily to a new state, you revise your future from the inside out. Faithful obedience to your inner state, not external facts, makes the miracle real.