The Illusion Of Self-Righteous Prayer

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe that the Pharisee’s prayer is not addressed to God but to his own image 'with himself.' In Neville’s terms, the man is a state of consciousness that identifies with external deeds as proof of worth. He boasts, 'I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess,' which shows a consciousness that confuses activity with being. The inner movement is separation from the one Life, and so prayer becomes a ritual to sustain that split. Your work is to repent of that internal division by turning from the judgmental I to the I AM that you are. The goal is not to annul morality but to wake to the truth that you are not apart from God; your 'I' is the I AM within, your consciousness, the very authority by which all events unfold. When you assume a state of wholeness—loved, guided, and capacious—you no longer need to prove yourself to the world. Instead, feel the presence of God as your own thinking, your own breath, your own life in you. The moment you align with the I AM, acts of fasting or tithing lose their separate weight and become expressions of inner abundance.