Inner Chains of Self-Delusion

Neville's Inner Vision

I tell you, the wicked are not pawns of a distant fate, but prisoners of the state they entertain within. His 'own' iniquities are the inner movements of belief—fear, pride, guilt—that you continually entertain as your reality. When you identify with these thoughts, you become bound with cords of your own making, and you wander in a lucid dream of separation, dying to the instruction you deny yourself. The 'instruction' is the I AM within, the still, quiet awareness that perceives reality as you imagine it. If you cling to the old pattern, you feed folly and the outer scene reflects your inner misalignment. The remedy is to revise: assume the feeling of your true state now, as one who lives by divine law, who is guided by inner instruction, and who needs no external sanction to be whole. When you feel it real, the cords loosen and you move toward wholeness.