Inner Desolation, Inner Return

Neville's Inner Vision

That which Zephaniah calls I have cut off the nations is not a punishment upon a place but a revelation within. The towers of a people are your mental fortresses - doubt, pride, habit - pruned until they stand bare. The streets made waste are the habitual thoughts that hurry by without truly passing; with their removal, there is room for a fresh, quiet movement of awareness. The cities destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant, signals the interior emptying of a divided sense of self. In this state, the I AM can enter unimpeded. Desolation becomes the birthplace of a new arrangement of consciousness, not a catastrophe in the outer world. Your job, therefore, is not to cling to the old forms but to welcome the inner removal as grace, a clearing of the ground for your true identity to be revealed. When you affirm that you are the one I AM, you align your imagination with the city that is to be inhabited by divine life. The outer world will reflect this internal rebuilding as you persist in the assumption of wholeness.