Neville Goddard Quotes Page 5

“Your subconscious, whose natural state is sleep, sees you as you believe yourself to be, and whether it be good, bad, or indifferent, the subconscious will faithfully embody your belief.

As you feel so do you impress her; and she, the perfect lover, gives form to these impressions and out-pictures them as the children of her beloved.”

“Your world in its every detail is your consciousness objectified.”

“Fools exploit the world; the wise transfigure it.

It is the highest wisdom to know that in the living universe there is no destiny other than that created out of the imagination of man. There is no influence outside of the mind of man.”

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, and then you believe it to be true.

Every dream could be realised by those self-disciplined enough to believe it. People are what you choose to make them; a man is according to the manner in which you look at him.”

“It is not a strong will that sends the subjective word on its mission so much as it is clear thinking and feeling the truth of the the state affirmed. When belief and will are in conflict, belief invariably wins.”

“It is not what you want that you attract, you attract what you believe to be true.”

“Nothing befalls man that is not the nature of himself. People emerge out of the mass betraying their close affinity to your moods as they are engendered. You meet them seemingly by accident but find they are intimates of your moods.

Because your moods continually externalise themselves you could prophesy from your moods, that you, without search, would soon meet certain characters and encounter certain conditions.”

“Prayer — the art of believing what is denied by the senses — deals almost entirely with the subconscious.

Through prayer, the subconscious is suggested into acceptance of the wish fulfilled, and, reasoning deductively, logically unfolds it to its legitimate end.”

“Prayer modifies or completely changes our subconscious assumptions, and a change of assumption is a change of expression.”

“The acceptance of the end wills the means. And the wisest reflection could not devise more effective means than those which are willed by the acceptance of the end.”

“The subconscious is that in which everything is known, in which everything is possible, to which everything goes, from which everything comes, which belongs to all, to which all have access.”

“To give is to receive. You cannot give what you do not have and you have only what you believe.

So to believe a state as true of another not only awakens that state within the other but it makes it alive within you. You are what you believe.”

“Within that blankness we call sleep there is a consciousness in unsleeping vigilance, and while the body sleeps this unsleeping being releases from the treasure house of eternity the subconscious assumptions of man.”

“Your beliefs, your fixed attitudes of mind, constantly modify your consciousness as it is reflected on the mirror of your mind. Your consciousness, modified by your beliefs, objectifies itself in the conditions of your world.

To change the world, you must first change your conception of it. To change a man, you must change your conception of him. You must believe him to be the man you want him to be and mentally talk to him as though he were.

All men are sufficiently sensitive to reproduce your beliefs of them. Therefore, if your word is not reproduced visibly in him toward whom it is sent, the cause is to be found in you, not in the subject.

As soon as you believe in the truth of the state affirmed, results follow. Everyone can be transformed; every thought can be transmitted; every thought can be visibly embodied.”

“Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and continue feeling that it is fulfilled until that which you feel objectifies itself.

If a physical fact can produce a psychological state, a psychological state can produce a physical fact.

If the effect (a) can be produced by the cause (b), then inversely, the effect (b) can be produced by the cause (a).”

“I and my Father are one but my Father is greater than I. The conscious and subconscious are one, but the subconscious is greater than the conscious.”

“Imagination and faith are the secrets of creation.”

“Nothing comes from without; all things come from within – from the subconscious.”

“Prayer is the master key. A key, may fit one door of a house, but when it fits all doors it may well claim to be a master key.

Such and no less a key, is prayer to all earthly problems.”

“The subconscious is what a man is. The conscious is what a man knows.”

“Your subconscious impressions determine the conditions of your world. The subconscious is not selective; it is impersonal and no respecter of persons.

The subconscious is not concerned with the truth or falsity of your feeling. It always accepts as true that which you feel to be true. Feeling is the assent of the subconscious to the truth of that which is declared to be true.

Because of this quality of the subconscious there is nothing impossible to man.”

“Everyone is free to create his world as he wants it if he knows that the whole thing is responding to him.”

“Everything depends upon our attitude towards ourselves. That which we will not affirm as true of ourselves cannot develop in our life.”

“I tell you everything comes in response to our own wonderful imaginal activity. You can be anything in this world but you cannot know it or expect it to come unless you act.

If you react based on the past, you continue in the same pattern. To be the man you desire to be you must create the scene, and the whole world will be convulsed if that is necessary to bring it to pass.”

“Life makes no mistakes and always gives man that which man first gives himself.”

“Love is not love if there is no beloved.”

“To desire a state is to have it.”

“Actually, you are destined to reach the point where you realise that through your own desire you can consciously create your successive destinies.”

“Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and observe the route that your attention follows.”

“By desiring to be other than what you are, you can create an ideal of the person you want to be and assume that you are already that person.”