Inner Equality in Ecclesiastes 6:8
Ecclesiastes 6:8 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Ecclesiastes 6 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Ecclesiastes 6:8 asks what the wise have more than the fool and what the poor have that enables them to walk before the living. It signals that outer statuses do not confer true advantage before life.
Neville's Inner Vision
Within Neville's psychology, the wise and the fool are not two different men but two states of consciousness in the same person. What you call 'wise' or 'foolish' are judgments born of your inner stance toward life; neither state has more real power than the other until you invest it with life. The 'living' before whom you walk is not some external judge but your own I AM—the living Presence that expresses as your awareness. When you realize that life is your awareness, the supposed advantage of the wise is only a habit of attention, and the poor's humility is a readiness to acknowledge the one Life. Therefore, the verse invites you to stop seeking superiority in outer forms and to align with the one living I AM within you. Then the boundary between success and lack dissolves; the same I AM sustains both. Your inner posture becomes the determinant reality; your day-to-day world reflects the state you hold as true. Practice turning attention from comparison to identification with the I AM, and observe how the world rearranges itself to fit that sovereign inner life.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Sit quietly, acknowledge the I AM within as the living; feel equal in yourself to all situations, and rest in that truth.
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