Banquet of Awareness

Neville's Inner Vision

Your inner banquet is a stage where the I AM sits with the ruler of your consciousness. The feast before you is not only food but a symbol of the dainties of outward life—the praise, the status, and the seductive comforts of appetite. When desire draws you toward the plate, it is a sign that your awareness can waver from its royal posture. The line about the knife to thy throat is not a command for self-harm but a reminder: discipline of appetite is a boundary you set in imagination to preserve the integrity of your state. The 'deceitful meat' lies in promise of satisfaction that never reaches the lasting happiness of the I AM. True discernment is not the denial of life but the alignment of appetite with your true self. You are the ruler; you choose what nourishes your consciousness and what merely pleases the senses. By recognizing yourself as the I AM, you see that the wealth of inner truth outshines any outward dainty.