Inner City Psalm Reflections

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider that you are not surveying an external city but a state of mind. The cry, Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues, becomes your command to dissolve the inner chatter that divides you from your own peace. What you call violence and strife on the walls are the recurring thoughts, inner arguments, and self-judgments that haunt your attention day and night. The streets and gates symbolize the channels of your awareness through which stories travel—claims of blame, deceit, and guile that persist as part of the inner weather. When you observe 'wickedness' or 'guile' in the midst, recognize that these are movements of your own consciousness arising as you identify with limits. Your task is not to punish others but to withdraw belief from the images that keep you at war with yourself. In this light, the divine act is the self-discipline of attention: to divide the tongues of fear by turning awareness toward the peaceful, creative center within. As you imagine and feel the truth of your I AM, the city begins to empty of its agitation and reorders itself around quiet integrity and trust.