Inner Joy Through Love

Neville's Inner Vision

Take this line as a psychological map. The saints are not outside you; they are the quiet states of your own mind. Thy love is the inner sentiment you cultivate, the sense that you are one with all. When you live from that love, the bowels of the saints—your deepest feelings—are refreshed by you, and joy floods your consciousness. The speaker does not beg for mercy from a distant God, but acknowledges the I AM within as the source of all consolation. Each time you imagine yourself as the source of compassion, you soften any hardness in your inner weather and replace it with warmth. Your imagination creates the relationship you see by assuming the presence of this love and feeling it as real. The moment you grant that you are the refreshment, you experience a greater sense of community within and without. Remember: mercy is a state you sustain; it is not something you obtain from without. In that inner act, you discover the true source of happiness and spiritual refreshment.