Vanities and Inner Mercy

Neville's Inner Vision

Within your consciousness, lying vanities are not external relics but current images you permit to dictate your value, outcomes, and identity. When you fix your attention on carved desires—status, control, or fleeting pleasures—you distance yourself from the mercy that is your essential I AM. Jonah's warning says: turn away from these counterfeit pictures and you return to the one reality that never departs: God as your awareness. True worship is not ritualized acts but the quiet attention that beholds the self as mercy, here and now. If a vanity arises, do not oppose it with force; revise it by insisting, 'I am the mercy I seek.' Watch as the image dissolves and your ordinary moment fills with the assurance of being already loved, already whole. In that shift, your outer world follows your inner posture; mercy is not given to you by luck, but lived through you as your very I AM. Let this be your practice: dwell in awareness, and the lying vanities lose their power.