Inner Leaven, Inner Bread

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture the crossing as the moving of your own awareness across a sea of conditions. The bread you fear you have lost is not bread at all but a symbol of outward supply. The leaven here is belief—the habit of thinking in terms of lack, shaped by the Pharisees’ and Sadducees’ insistence on appearances. When the disciples cried, 'we have no bread,' they revealed little faith and confirmed the very error the Master sought to cure: they looked to the world for proof of their state. The miracles—five loaves, seven baskets—are not past events but reminders of your inner abundance, stored in memory as the powerful proof of your I AM. To beware the leaven is to beware any thought that inflates fear or inflames separation from God within you. The cure is simple: assume the state that all supply flows from your inner I AM; revise the moment-by-moment belief that bread must come from without; feel the reality of inexhaustible life in you, right now. Do not let doctrine outside crumble your faith; you are the creator by the conviction you hold.