Inner Sight Over Wandering Desires
Ecclesiastes 6:9-11 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Ecclesiastes 6 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The passage contrasts outward sight with the restless wandering of desire, calling such longing vanity, and hints at a higher order that outpowers human striving. It asks what true benefit vanity can bring.
Neville's Inner Vision
In this moment of reading, I see the 'sight of the eyes' as your present perception—the surface impression your senses feed upon. The 'wandering of the desire' is the ego's restless imagination, forever seeking to fix an outcome in a world that seems to resist your will. You are not fighting others but the belief in separation from the mightier I AM within you. The line 'that which hath been is named already' reveals that past conditions are only names you carry in consciousness; you cannot contend with the power that quietly governs your inner state. Yet the truth is you can yield to this mightier order by turning your attention from craving to the feeling of the end-state you choose. When you pause the chase of appearances and affirm the end in your imagination, you align with the inner law that creates form. Vanity is the mind's restless rehearsal of what you lack; discernment appears when you honor the still, quiet I AM and let it shape your life from within. Your real advancement comes not by outward change but by the inward assumption that what you seek is already yours.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Sit in stillness, close your eyes, and declare, 'I AM that I AM, and I now enter the end-state I desire.' Then feel that state as present, letting the evidence of it rise in your chest as calm assurance rather than chase.
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