Night of Suffering, Inner Trust

Neville's Inner Vision

In this passage your outer circle collapses and returns as water surrounding you. Water is not your foe, but the atmosphere of your thinking. The 'lover and friend' cast far away are not people to be hunted but beliefs and identifications you’re clinging to. When you identify with loss, isolation, and darkness, you practice a state you are merely aware of. The remedy is to turn inward and claim a new state of consciousness in which you are not abandoned but present as the I AM: the all-encompassing awareness that surrounds every moment. See the daily round as the continuous thought-form you have allowed to occupy your attention; you can revise it by affirming, 'I am surrounded by love and companionship in the I AM.' The world will echo that inner state—the circle reconstituted as inner life—when you persist in this revision and feel the truth of your unity with all that is needed.