Inner Fasting, Inner Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inner theater of your mind, the priests and prophets are faculties of attention and perception within the house of the LORD—the inner sanctuary of consciousness. The fifth month, the weeping, and the act of separating yourself symbolize fixed practices that once defined devotion. The question is not about history but about the state you inhabit now: do you cling to external rituals to prove allegiance to a power you are already? Neville would say that the I AM is the temple you must acknowledge, not a calendar of austerities. When you insists on old separations or seasonal sorrows, you sustain the very state you seek to escape. To awaken, assume the consciousness that already contains your desire, and let the inner voice declare, I AM whole and united with the divine. As you revise the inner atmosphere, the world conforms to this new state. True worship then becomes a perpetual, not a periodic, experience within the temple of your own heart.