Walls of Inner Resolve

Neville's Inner Vision

Remember: in this story, the wall is your inner boundary, the renewal of a tired life. The crowd’s sneer is not about bricks, but about your state of consciousness. When Sanballat is wroth and indignant, he represents the stubborn habit of fear that arises to stop your forward motion. Tobiah’s second jab—'even a fox'—is the easy verdict of the doubter, the belief that what you intend cannot endure. Yet you, the builder, know that every stone already exists in your imagination; the rubbish and burned heaps are memories you have relit by dwelling on lack. To live this is to realize you are not at the mercy of external taunts, but the one who calls the scene into being. By maintaining your awareness on the wall you intend, you are choosing a state that endures beyond the momentary voice of opposition. The murmuring crowd dissolves when you accept that the form of your desire is already present as an idea in consciousness, and your perseverance is the working out of that inner vision. The enemy's words reveal the power of your imagination when you refuse to concede.