Inner Return, Outer Labor

Neville's Inner Vision

Birth and death are not events in time but movements in consciousness. The verse exposes how the I AM, in its waking dream of form, experiences entrance and exit as if wealth could endure what is only passing appearance. When you mistake labor for proof of your worth, you are bargaining with wind. In truth, the self that truly exists is the I AM, awareness itself, which remains unmoved while forms arise and dissolve. The 'nakedness' is not the body's poverty but the absence of identification with transient gains. As you learn to shift your assumption, you begin to see that every wage, every achievement, is but a sign in the sky of your inner state. If you insist that labor yields lasting profit, you bind yourself to restless striving; if you reside as the I AM, the world follows suit, reflecting inner peace rather than outer accumulation. The verse invites you to revise the meaning of success from external result to inner recognition.