Inner Fortresses Crumbling

Neville's Inner Vision

These lines invite us to see the siege as a reflection of inner states. When you are intoxicated by fear or hiding behind defenses, you are not being attacked so much as identifying with a thought that fears loss. The enemy represents the pressure of circumstance in your mind, pressing your awareness to prove itself. The strongholds that crumble are your inner defenses—like fig trees whose fruit drops when shaken. Yet you are not at the mercy of such shaking; you are the observer, the I AM, the unshakeable reality. By choosing a new inner fact, you dissolve the siege. Assume the reality of the I AM and imagine the fortresses of fear dissolving into the sea of your consciousness, leaving you calm and unscathed within. The apparent collapse signals a growth in consciousness, not a defeat, as you hold the inner order in spite of appearances.