Thirsting Toward the Inner God

Neville's Inner Vision

To stretch forth my hands unto thee is to turn the power of attention from external demand to the one Presence I AM. The soul's thirst, described as a land yearning for rain, is not a plea for rain outside but a signal that consciousness itself is aware of lack and is ready to be filled with the perception of God within. Selah marks a deliberate pause where imagination rests in the feel of being already saturated with divine life. In Neville's method, thirst is the initial awareness of separation; it dissolves when I assume the state of God-aware presence and experience the feeling of fullness as if it were already mine. When I live from the end, knowing I am the I AM, the dry ground of lack becomes fertile, because the very desire is the invitation for God to be realized as my consciousness. The 'hands' are not begging objects; they are the ready reach of awareness toward its own Source. Practice invites you to entertain the conviction that you are already within God's presence, and let the thirst be a joyful expectancy rather than a complaint.