Naked Return, Inner Wealth

Neville's Inner Vision

Ecclesiastes 5:15 speaks in the language of leaves and dust, yet its truth runs toward the inner man. The man who came forth naked from his mother’s womb and who returns naked to the dust cannot take wealth from the outward world; the body’s toil leaves no lasting purse. But the inner man—the I AM, awareness, your essential self—lives beyond that economy. The verse is not a sermon on poverty but a reminder: your real property is not property but perception. If your attention rides on externals, fear and loss will chase you; if you turn inward and acknowledge that you are the source of your world, you begin to “labor” in a different currency: attention, imagination, and feeling. Then your affairs rearrange themselves, not by more things, but by a deeper conviction that the present state of consciousness is the seed of all appearances. Grace and favor come when you stop worshiping what passes and worship the one who never passes—the I AM behind all phenomena.