Loving Enemies, Living Love

Neville's Inner Vision

In this passage, the enemies and the laws of return are not external adversaries but states of consciousness within you. To love your enemies is to align your inner I AM with the fearless awareness that cannot be rattled by opposition. When you “do good” to those who hate you, you are practicing a deliberate inner movement: you imagine a better state for all involved, and you let that vision flow as action without resistance. Blessing those who curse you and praying for those who despitefully use you become acts of inner devotion, a reversing of your usual reactivity into grace. The instruction to offer the other cheek and not to withhold your coat is the surrender of attachment to appearances—the ego’s demand for safety—and an invitation to trust an abundance that cannot be diminished by outward events. Giving to everyone who asks mirrors your acceptance that your supply is derived from the I AM within, not from the world of want. The other person is a mirror of your own mind; by loving them, you love the divine I AM inside, and your reality begins to reflect that harmony.