Inner Strife to Peaceful Alignment

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the psalmist does not accuse men, but reveals the inner state. The I AM, the conscious self, organizes experience. The neighbors and enemies stand for the other voices in your own mind — habitual judgments, fear, scarcity thoughts — when you identify with a divided sense of self. The cry of being a strife shows that you are projecting your inner conflict outwardly, inviting mockery and conflict as a mirror of your separation from the unity of God within. To change the scene, you do not fight the outside; you revise the inside. Assume you are already in harmony with all whom you call neighbor or foe, and feel the reality of that wholeness now. When you feel it real as the I AM, the other voices soften, laughter becomes relief, and the scene rearranges itself to reflect your inner peace. The practice is to dwell in the sense of complete oneness and then step into the day with a fixed feeling that nothing is truly against you, only within you as a thought you have allowed to become your world.