Lose to Save Your Life

Neville's Inner Vision

Mark 8:35 speaks to the inner markets of the mind. The self you cling to is a false image, a temporary character within the mind’s theatre. When you attempt to save that character—the story you tell yourself about who you are—you drain life of its true vitality. Yet when you willingly let that image dissolve for the sake of the gospel—the recognition that God is within and as you—you awaken to a life that cannot perish. The I AM within your chest is the only life; every other “life” is a passing role in the dream. The paradox is not a command to suffer but a revelation: life expands as you release the illusion of separation and identify with the divine presence that animates all experience. Practice sees this shift as a revision in consciousness, a turning of attention from lack to wholeness, from fear to trust, from egoic striving to surrendered awareness.