Neville Goddard on Ecclesiastes 4:8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ecclesiastes 4 in context

Scripture Focus

8There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

Biblical Context

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yet there is no end of all his labour, and riches do not satisfy his eye. This sinks into vanity and sore travail, unless seen as a call to inner awareness.

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville vantage, the ‘one alone’ is the solitary state of consciousness you entertain when you believe you are apart from the whole. The endless labor and the eye that is not satisfied with riches reveal a mind fixated on lack, a vision that seeks completion in objects rather than in the I AM that animates all. When you adopt the truth that you are the I AM, not the separate doer, the entire scene dissolves into a single act of awareness. Wealth becomes not something you chase but a living experience of consciousness knowing itself as full, sufficient, and whole. The moment you revise 'for whom do I labor?' you discover there is no other self to labor for—the dream of separation collapses into presence. You are not condemned to toil; you are invited to awaken into the realization that desire and possession are states you can shift by assuming the feeling of the wish already fulfilled. In this light, effort is seen as a signal to return to the inner reality that sustains all.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit, breathe, and claim, 'I AM the I AM, and abundance flows through me now.' Feel the relief of completion as you dwell in this inner state, not in chasing results.