Awakening Through Watchful Prayer

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the scene not as a historical moment, but as a map of consciousness. The sleeping disciples are states of mind dulled by sorrow and fatigue, the very energy that keeps you from noticing the I AM that dwells within. When Jesus rises and asks, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, he is inviting you to shift from passive feeling to deliberate inner alignment. Prayer, in this light, is not petition to an external God but a turning of attention toward your own abiding awareness. The temptation stands where your thought assumes separation from the source; vigilance is the inner act of choosing a higher state of consciousness, and faith is the steady trust that the I AM is already the active reality in you. Your job is to revise the sense of self until it aligns with the presence you seek. The sleep is the old identity; the watch is the new posture of consciousness that refuses to abandon the now for sorrow.