Olive Mount Prayer Practice

Neville's Inner Vision

On your inner Mount of Olives, become the I AM that watches rather than the ego that worries. Luke’s scene is not a geography but a state of consciousness: the disciples are your outward duties, the landscape is your inner disposition, and temptation is the moment you forget who you truly are. When he says, Pray that ye enter not into temptation, he invites you to refuse the agreement that would keep you in a lesser mood. He steps away from the crowd, a short withdrawal into stillness, to kneel and pray not for change in circumstance but for the certainty of the state you intend to inhabit. Prayer, in this light, is the act of revising your premise until it feels inevitable: you align with the fact that you are the I AM, and any thought that says otherwise is dissolved in quiet imagination. The silence that follows is not absence but space in which the true self speaks and the old self quiets. Your temptation loses its power as you practice feeling that the victory is already accomplished in your inner life, and your deeds begin to move in harmony with that inner outcome.