Near the Grave, Awake Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine that the lines are not about some literal ending, but about a state of awareness you entertain about yourself. The speaker’s soul is 'full of troubles,' a mental weather report of a mind clinging to limitation. In Neville's terms, this is a state of consciousness that has grown a life of its own; the grave appears only as a symbol for the shut-down of possibility in that state. The remedy is not escape from pain but an interior revision: identify the feeling and declare a new you who is not defined by it. Assume the feeling of vitality, the sense that you are the I AM, here and now, unstoppably alive. Begin to breathe as if vitality courses through every cell; speak softly to the image you hold of yourself: I am life; I am the I AM, and this moment is my doorway from fear to enduring light. When you practice, you will notice events starting to reflect your inner orientation—less grip of dread, more spaciousness, a return of light to form. The Psalm becomes a signpost, not a verdict; your awareness rewrites the script.