The Stillness Of The Mind

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this psalm, the ruler is your own I AM, the steadfast awareness at the center of conscious life. The raging sea and the waves that rise are the storms of thought and feeling that arise when you momentarily forget who you are. To still them, you do not chase the surf around; you acknowledge and assert the I AM as the unchanging author of your inner weather. Rahab, the chaos and 'dead' persistence of limitation, is the old belief that you are at the mercy of circumstances; by recognizing the I AM as your foundation, you break and scatter that idea with a strong arm of conviction. The heavens and the earth belong to you because they are the stage on which your inner assumption plays; the world and its fullness are the fruit of your ongoing inner state. North and south are mere directions born of your imagination, now created and governed by your choice. Tabor and Hermon rejoice when the name of God—the I AM—guides your mind. The upshot: your victory over doubt is the aware decision that you are, here and now, the embodiment of the divine will.