Gnat and Camel Within You

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the gnats and camels as two movements in your own consciousness. The gnat is the habit of policing outward appearances—a minute purity that keeps the mind busy. The camel is the vast, unacknowledged belief you carry about your separation from God, the sense that some part of you must be dominated or corrected. The scene in Matthew 23:24 points to a mind that strains at small laws while swallowing the great deception of separation. But the truth is that you are the I AM, the living consciousness that contains all; the outer judgments merely reflect inner states. If you would see rightly, reverse the act: stop policing the surface and identify with the wholeness that includes both gnats and camels. In every moment you choose a state of consciousness; the apparent facts bow to your inner assumption. By assuming the feeling of the complete, whole self—knowing you are the One who loves and observes—your outer life aligns with that inner truth. The 'you' who judges can be the very 'I' that awakens to unity.