Inner Seeds, Outer Outcomes

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the I AM, the crowd is the gathering of countless states of consciousness, and the sower is the will awakening in you. The seed you sow is a truth you wish to live, planted in the soil of awareness. When seed falls on the way, the hardness of familiar habit prevents it from germinating; thoughts pressed by a worn path are devoured by the fowls of fear and distraction. When seed falls on rock, it sprouts but cannot be kept alive, for there is no moisture—no sustained feeling or conscious assurance that the I AM is the nourishment of your desire. The moisture, in Neville's teaching, is continuous awareness—the feeling that your wish is already fulfilled here and now. The parable invites you to tend your inner garden with faith, to water every seed with consistent attention, and to refuse to accept appearances as evidence against your state of fulfillment. In the kingdom, growth is the function of your interior moisture; fruit appears only where the soil has been prepared by steady, imaginative identification with the end accomplished.