Inner Wealth and Fellowship

Neville's Inner Vision

To the reader aware of I AM, the verse is not about others failing you but about your state of consciousness revealing itself as reality. The brethren who hate and the friends who vanish are the texture of a belief you hold about lack, worth and separation. If you understand that God is the I AM within you, you will see that poverty, abandonment and hollow words are projections of a present feeling you have accepted as true. The turn is to assume a new assumption: that you are already beloved, supported and surrounded by true communion. In imagination you revisit the scene and, with a calm certainty, you tell a story where affection flows freely and loyalty is secured by your inner reality, not by others' actions. As you persist in the feeling that your wholeness is established, people respond in accord with that inner state, often in surprising ways. The task is to refuse outer appearances govern your inner sense of worth and to revise the scene until your inner I AM becomes the loudest voice.