Gauging Myself Against Neville Goddard’s Teaching

 

                      One of my Zen Instructors at Green Dragon Zen Center - Green Gulch Farm.

Gauging Myself Against Neville Goddard’s Teachings

Sometimes I ask myself: how close or how far am I from the truth Neville Goddard spoke of? Am I living as he laid out — or just circling around the idea? It’s not ego that drives this questioning, but rather a way of taking stock of my spiritual journey, a kind of self-audit of the soul.

Goddard’s core teachings can be distilled into five truths:

1. Clarity of Desire
   I realize I have carried steady desires throughout my life — to live truthfully as an artist, to share my story, to teach and to serve, and to one day create a sanctuary for others. These have never been fleeting whims. They are enduring seeds in my heart.

2. Imagine the End
   Again and again, life has shown me this principle at work. I once imagined myself on a fishing boat in Alaska, and I found myself there. I envisioned a simple life of art and meditation in Malaysia, and here I am. I may not always know the “how,” but the vision carries me.

3. Feeling It Real
   For me, imagination has never been abstract. I feel things deeply — the tears that flow in prayer, the taste of the Bering Sea wind, the solitude of a farm in Kedah, the laughter of children nearby. These are not ideas; they are lived sensations.

4. Persistence in the Assumption
   Life has not been easy. Divorce, widowhood, displacements, struggles. Yet, somehow, faith has carried me through. I return again and again to what matters most: art, faith, service. This is persistence — not of willpower alone, but of the heart that refuses to give up.

5. Live as Though It Is Already Done
   This is perhaps the quietest truth I embody. I don’t wait for recognition to call myself an artist or a seeker. I live it already, however small or unnoticed it may appear. My writings, my sketches, my reflections are not preparations for a life I wish for; they are the life itself.

Looking at all this, I see that I am not outside of Goddard’s vision at all. I am already walking within it. Sometimes lightly, sometimes with struggle, but always carried along by that same current of truth.

Perhaps that is the real teaching — not to measure distance from the goal, but to realize that the goal has been with me, within me, all along.

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