Beyond Vanity, Inner Life Awakening

Neville's Inner Vision

Ecclesiastes speaks to the man who identifies with the surface drama and calls it life. Yet the 'work under the sun' is not a fate but a state of consciousness—an arrangement of attention. When you feel that life is grievous and vanity, you have mistaken the observer for the observed. You are the I AM, the conscious creator who gives life its texture. By turning inward and assuming the state you wish to inhabit, you revise the entire outer scene. Before any action, declare, 'I am the I AM; I dwell in the unchanging peace that makes all experiences meaningful.' Then imagine a scene where your daily toil aligns with inner purpose, and feel the satisfaction as already present. As you persist, the inner state extracts form from the formless, and the outer events begin to harmonize with your revised consciousness. The weariness fades as you acknowledge that all perception is lived from within; vanity dissolves when you choose to live from your eternal self rather than external outcomes.