Poor in Spirit, Kingdom Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Blessed are the poor in spirit is not about money or lack, but a state of consciousness. The 'poor' is the mind that has let go of self-reliance, surrendered to the I AM. In Neville's terms, the kingdom of heaven is the natural condition of awareness that you are the I AM. When you stop narrating from the separate ego and begin to feel your oneness with God within, heaven is not coming—it is recognized. The inner movement from fear to trust is the entrance into the kingdom. Your imagination is the instrument by which this kingdom is made visible; by imagining from the end—seeing yourself already in possession of peace, health, abundance—you awaken that state as your present experience. The more you dwell in the feeling that you are attended by consciousness, the more external circumstances align to reflect it. The poor in spirit do not lack; they are empty of false selfhood and full of God-reality. Your every thought and feeling can be revised into the awareness that God is the only reality and you are that I AM.