Inner End and Vanity

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, the verse is not about death as much as a shift in consciousness. 'End' and 'the measure of my days' are inner landmarks: the end of the old self for the I AM, and the length of one’s days as measured by the attention given to a vision. When you hear 'Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth,' you hear the brevity of clock-time in the self-concept, not in linear time. The 'Selah' invites a pause to let the inward truth sink: every man at his best state is vanity unless the I AM presides. The remedy is to refuse the ego's urge for significance and instead assume that you are the timeless awareness in which all events arise. By recognizing that the end is known by the I AM, you align with Providence and allow the present to be suffused with meaning. The practice is to revise the self-image until the feeling of 'I AM' dominates, and to let thoughts, deeds, and outcomes express that inner state rather than the separated ego.