Awakening From Temptation's Sea

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, the world you call out there arises from the state you occupy. Proverbs 23:33–35 names the pull of illusion: eyes that see strange images and a heart that speaks in the negative, the inner chatter that calls itself truth. Yet these temptations are not foreign powers; they are movements of your own consciousness, and you may revise them. The sea and the mast are not locations but images of your inner weather when you forget the I AM that you are. You may say, 'They have struck me, and I feel it not,' and thus prove the womb of perception cannot harm the Real you. When shall I awake? Neville would answer: now, in this moment of chosen awareness. Refuse the dream of lack and longing; reaffirm that you are the I AM, unmoved by what the senses report. See with a pure gaze that discerns without craving. As you dwell in that state, you render temptation powerless and return to integrity, clarity, and holy separation from what does not serve your true nature.