Neville Goddard on Ecclesiastes 2:22-23 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ecclesiastes 2 in context

Scripture Focus

22For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:22-23

Biblical Context

The verses question the value of toil, noting that labor and its sorrows yield little rest and call the pursuit vanity.

Neville's Inner Vision

All the labor described in Ecclesiastes is not the action itself but the state you inhabit while you believe you are separate from the source of life. In Neville’s terms, the 'man' is a state of consciousness that disbelieves its I AM, turning days into sorrows and nights into fretful travail. The true question is not what you earn by work, but what identity you wear while you work. If you insist that rest and security spring from external results, you are living in vanity, a dream that dissolves when you awaken to awareness. The remedy is to reverse the assumption: claim that you, the I AM, have already completed the work and are now resting in endless consciousness. By assuming the feeling of completion, the vexation of heart and the sleeplessness of night collapse into the quiet acknowledgment that all experience flows from inner awareness. You are not the body toiling under the sun; you are the awareness behind it, imagining a world into being. Thus labor’s sorrows reveal not an external truth, but your present state of consciousness.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, declare I AM as your constant, and revise the day’s toil as already complete; feel it-real with a steady breath and a soft inner smile.