Righteous Seeing and Laughing

Neville's Inner Vision

All that Psalm speaks of as 'the righteous' is a state of awareness, not a person. To 'see' is to be aware in the I AM, to recognize the movement of thought that claims a separate foe. The 'fear' you feel is the tremor of belief in separation; when you hold still in the sense of I AM and refuse to identify with the fearful image, the tremor passes. The final 'laugh' is the inner recognition that the whole drama is a projection from consciousness, and that you, not it, are the source. The righteous one, within you, does not condemn but disarms by the awareness that all appearances arise from your own mind's reflections. As you persist in the assumption that you are the I AM, you shift the inner climate; the outer scene reforms to reflect your new state. The verse is a map: see without clinging, fear dissolves in realization, and laughter becomes the natural tone of the awakened mind. Your inner observer witnesses both, and in that witnessing you are already free.