Dwelling in the Inner Land

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the land as your inner country, the realm of your consciousness. The upright and the perfect are states that align with the I AM, not external conditions. When you hold to inner integrity, your awareness remains in that land, and the outer world replays that settled condition. The wicked and the transgressors are not people or places; they are thoughts, habits, and fears that do not belong to your true being and therefore are rooted out as you refuse to feed them. The act of dwelling is a practice of assumption: you are already the one who has found a home in the land of being. Whenever anxiety or lack arises, revise it: 'I am living in the land of my own consciousness, and my surroundings reflect the steadiness of this I AM.' The law is inner: imagining and feeling as if you are the upright resident makes the outer scene conform. So the presence of God—your awareness—clothes the land, and the movement of the wicked is simply a withdrawal of attention from that inner state.