Laboring for the Wind: Inner Return

Neville's Inner Vision

To truly grasp Ecclesiastes 5:16 is to hear it as a whisper to the inner man: the you that makes and un-makes your world is not the body but your I AM, your living awareness. The verse speaks of profit and wind because the 'labor' men boast of is but a movement of desire within consciousness, and when you die to the surface movement, you leave behind the same wind you chased. Yet there is another reading: as long as you identify with the state of lack, you will call forth more lack; if you identify with the state of fulfillment, the entire world rearranges around that assumption. The 'start' and the 'end' are not two times; they are the same moment viewed from different angles in your inner theater. The issue is not the degree of effort but the state from which that effort flows. When you assume the feeling of already possessing what you seek, you align with the eternal I AM and the outer world concedes to your inner conviction. The apparent evil dissolves into revelation: profit is inner alignment, not outer toil.