Losing to Find the Inner Life

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider that to 'save' your life by clutching at who you are now is to fence in your possibility. The verse is not a prohibition against prudence, but a disclosure about the level at which you live. In the sight of God, you are not a separate self but the I AM, the very awareness that imagines. When you surrender the fear of loss and adopt the feeling that you already are the fulfilled state you seek, you die to the old identity and awaken to the new life that was already yours. This 'loss' is the spiritual stretching that preserves you: it opens the channel by which your inner reality enters your outward arrangements. Thus salvation comes as a revision of your state of consciousness—faith that never relinquishes the assurance of your oneness with God, perseverance that keeps imagining from the end backward, and trust that the outer world must reflect the inner miracle. The paradox resolves into practice: assume, revise, feel it real, and observe the life you meant to live.