The Inner Link: Love Your Neighbor

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville Goddard, this saying is not about loving a person apart from you, but about recognizing the neighbor as a projection of your own I AM. The 'second' command is not a separate rule from the first; it is the practical application of the truth that you are consciousness. The neighbor you think you love or fear is a mirror of your inner state, summoned by your beliefs and feelings. When you declare 'I love my neighbor as myself,' you are affirming the unity of all life within your awareness. Resistance, judgment, or withdrawal reveal a subdivision in your self-concept; by embracing oneness you dissolve separation and return to the I AM that animates all appearances. Suppose the feeling of unity—that you and your neighbor are the same living presence—until it takes root in imagination and becomes your habitual state. Then outer events reflect harmony rather than conflict, and this deepest law becomes natural expression rather than effort. In this light, no commandment is greater, for it is the very law of your being.