Gethsemane Within: Watchful Stillness

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe that Matthew presents not a drama of distance but an inner drama you know as your own state. The garden is the recess of your mind where attention falters and the old self trembles at the door of a greater obedience. My soul is exceedingly sorrowful is the moment you identify with a self that fears loss, a self begging to hold on. Yet the command tarry here, watch with me is not a demand on the flesh but a discipline of awareness — do not abandon your center. When you stand in that inner Gethsemane, you feel the heaviness, and yet you are asked to hold the line of consciousness, to choose the unseen over the seen. The I AM remains unshaken, and the weight dissolves as you return your attention to the truth you already are. The sorrow is the pull of old images; the prayer is the act of returning to the eternal you who never dies. Believe your divine nature now and the appearance dissolves.