Feeding the Inner Enemy

Neville's Inner Vision

Within my consciousness, the 'enemy' is a stubborn belief—an image of separation that gnaws at peace. Hunger and thirst are not only bodily; they denote the lack I feel when I forget that I am the I AM. When I sense the impulse to retaliate, I do not fight the thought; I feed it with a greater nourishment—the steady assurance that I can give, because I am the giver, because God is the source within me. I imagine supplying what that belief lacks: food for courage, drink for patience, shelter for a dreaming heart. As I prescribe this kindness inwardly, the imagined act becomes real in my feelings; the inner weather shifts from anger to mercy. The 'coal of fire' is the illumination of awareness—heated by compassionate imagination, not burned by punishment. In that light, the other person dissolves into a symbol of my own state of being; there is no separate adversary, only a vibrational point I choose to elevate. Persisting in this act, I awaken to the truth that mercy is the law of consciousness, and through it my world bends to reflect unity with the I AM within.