Shadow of the Apple Tree

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this line, the orchard is your own consciousness, and the apple tree among trees identifies your dominant state of awareness—the I AM made visible as love. The beloved stands out not as a person separate from you, but as the highest state you affirm as real. When she says, 'I sat down under his shadow with great delight,' she is describing the practice of dwelling in a conditioned sense of security within the I AM—resting in the shade of awareness that protects and nourishes. The shadow is not darkness but a spacious inner refuge where belief crystallizes. To taste the fruit is to experience the effects of that assumed state: joy, harmony, and sweetness as if given by your own inner king. Thus the external scene mirrors your inner orientation. The key is to identify with the feeling of being beloved, not with the absence of it. When you inhabit this inner scene, you are not chasing a relationship; you are surrendering to the only reality—the I AM in you—and your world reflects this Presence.