Inner Profit Beyond Vanity

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse 2:11 becomes a map for the inner life. When I say I looked at all the works of my hands, I am not surveying brick and beam alone but the inner condition from which those works arise. Vanity and vexation spring when I mistake the sunlit activity for the source of lasting value. The outer world is the stage where a mind rehearses its dream; the true profit is not in what is produced under the sun, but in the state of consciousness that births it. By turning from outer appraisal to the I AM, I discover that the labor is meaningful only as it mirrors my inner assumption. So I revise: I am not denying effort; I am recognizing that imagination is the cause of results. I awaken to the truth that the world is my assumption becoming flesh, and I can imagine the completion of my work as already done. In that inner alignment, vanity fades away and the sense of true wealth arises from within.