Inner Peace Before Adversaries

Neville's Inner Vision

From Neville's view, the 'enemies' are not persons in flesh but states of consciousness that threaten your peace: doubt, pressure, the impulse to prove yourself. When they 'rejoice' or 'wink' at you with hatred, you are seeing the mind's split between the reality you want and the appearances that would unsettle you. You are 'quiet in the land'—the inward land of awareness where no outer display can disturb you. The verse says they speak not peace and devise deceitful matters; this is the trick of imagination when it forgets its own power. Your work is to return to the awareness that you are the I AM, the perceiver who chooses what you allow to be true. By affirming that peace rules, you dissolve the motive power of hostile thoughts and external events. If you imagine an image of attack, revise it by declaring the end already present: harmony, safety, justice, and truth embodied in your life. In this way, the appearance of enemies and their schemes dissolve into the light of your inner state.