Vanity and the Inner Witness

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the text, the outer contrasts of wise and fool dissolve when you listen with the I AM as witness. In Neville’s terms, the verse exposes a universal law: the phenomena called 'life under the sun' are not fixed facts but fluctuating states of consciousness. The wise and the fool die in the same way because their identities are formed by time and circumstance, not by a permanent reality inside you. Therefore the point is not to chase a different outcome in the world, but to shift the identification that experiences it. Assume that you are the unchanging awareness, the I AM that witnesses every thought, fear, and triumph. When you revise the belief that this day’s work defines you, you liberate the mind from vanity and vexation. Feel it real that your true self remains intact while the scenes of life turn as if on a wheel. In that inner stance, the sorrow of life can soften into quiet gratitude, and the sense of equality before death becomes the invitation to live with truth, faith, and a deliberate future you imagine into reality.