Inner Paths and Dead Ends

Neville's Inner Vision

On the level of consciousness, this verse is a map, not of outer roads but of inner dispositions. There are times when the mind feels certain because it has fed on familiar images, yet such images are only the end-products of your current state of consciousness. You have interpreted a belief as a road, and your imagination dutifully sketches the scene - people applauding, doors opening, success appearing - while the real life that animates these scenes is your I AM, your present awareness. When you accept a belief that seems right because it mirrors the ego's desires, you are building a spiritual cul-de-sac that ends in death - not necessarily physical, but the death of possibility, vitality, and true direction. The cure is practical: revise the inner assumption. Deny that this preferred path is the only one, and affirm that your inner I AM is the guide and the goal. In that moment, you awaken a new movement of life within you; your imagination aligns with truth, and the end of the old path becomes a doorway to a livelier, truer reality that you experience as present.