Inward Halt, Sorrow Revealed

Neville's Inner Vision

Psalm 38:17 speaks of a man who is ready to halt, with sorrow continually before him. In Neville's vision, the outward condition is but the echo of an inner assumption. Sorrow is not 'out there' to be vanquished; it is a living image of a belief about yourself that you have accepted as true. The I AM, your eternal awareness, can suspend the image by a single act of faith: you must assume you are already the untroubled state you seek. When you feel the impulse to halt, you are being invited to turn your attention from the movement of lack to thecertainty of being. The mind that fears is the same mind that can revise. Imagine the sorrow as a weather front in your inner climate—allow it to pass, then replace it with the feeling of completion, relief, and inexhaustible life. You do not argue with the pain; you re-claim your identity as the I AM and stand there till the old feeling dissolves into quiet confidence. The moment you accept the new state in imagination, the inner horizon shifts and the outer world follows.