Vanity Reimagined: Ecclesiastes 1:2

Neville's Inner Vision

Vanity is not a condemnation of things, but of your identification with them. The Preacher’s phrase 'vanity of vanities' echoes the mind’s habit of treating transient appearances as solid reality. In Neville’s light, all that you call 'world' is a picture formed by the I AM, your own consciousness projecting form. When you believe in the scene—time, success, loss—you are drinking from a cup labeled vanity, for you have forgotten your true nature as awareness. However, the same I AM that witnesses the scene can change it by a simple shift in assumption. The moment you refuse to negotiate your worth with the fluctuating outer, and instead assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled, you cancel the old script and awaken to a state where the inner kingdom is already established. Imagination is not escapism; it is the instrument through which you shape reality. You are the creator who animates every image, and vanity dissolves once you dwell in the quiet certainty that your life is the expression of the I AM, here and now. From that inner posture, the outer world rearranges itself to reflect the new state.