Valley Of Presence Within

Neville's Inner Vision

See the valley not as a geography but as a state within you—fearful, shadowed, uncertain. The walking through denotes the constancy of your consciousness as you move, not flee. 'I will fear no evil' is a decision of the I AM: awareness cannot be assaulted by appearances when it knows itself. 'For thou art with me' is the recognition that the divine I AM accompanies every thought and feeling. The rod and thy staff — the inner faculties of discernment and imagination — comfort you by guiding attention and tending to the drift of belief. When you reinterpret 'death' as limitation dissolved by awareness, the shadow loses its power. The scene changes from threat to invitation; you are never alone, for your true Self is present, watching over your every thought and dream. Practice, then, is not begging for safety, but assuming the state of the I AM within which is always integral, always attentive, and always near.