Calm the Inner Sea

Neville's Inner Vision

Jesus arose and rebuked the wind, speaking Peace, be still, and the sea obeyed. In Neville’s reading, that command is not a weather report but a statement about the inner climate of consciousness. The wind and waves are the inner movements—thoughts, fears, hopes—that rage when you identify with them. The I AM within you can command them to be still by assuming a different state of being. When you 'hear' Peace, be still, you are asked to revise the imagined scene: see yourself as the untroubled consciousness that watches, not as the wind that must be controlled. The great calm that follows is the natural result of that inner shift: the outer circumstances align with your new inner posture, not by coercion but by creation from within. Your power is not over others or events, but over the pictures you keep of yourself. Imagination, not external effort, births calm; turn attention away from the storm and back to the I AM, and the sea within you quiets.