Neville Goddard Quotes Page 6

“By persisting in the assumption that you already are the person you want to be, you rise above all doubt, fear and belief in the power of outside conditions or circumstances; and your world inevitably conforms to your assumption.”

“Claim it; it will respond.”

“Faith does not question — faith knows.”

“I will be, is a confession that I am not. The Father's will is always: 'I am'.

Until you realize that your are the Father, your will is always 'I will be'.”

“Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.”

“The assumption of the wish fulfilled is the ship that carries you over the unknown seas to the fulfillment of your dream.

The assumption is everything; realisation is subconscious and effortless.”

“The clue to the real purpose of life is to surrender yourself to your ideal with such awareness of its reality that you begin to live the life of the ideal and no longer your own life as it was prior to this surrender.”

“The great secret is a controlled imagination and a well sustained attention firmly and repeatedly focused on the feeling of the wish fulfilled until it fills the mind and crowds all other ideas out of consciousness.”

“The great secret of success is to focus the attention on the feeling of the wish fulfilled without permitting any distraction.”

“To be transformed, the whole basis of your thoughts must change. But your thoughts cannot change unless you have new ideas, for you think from your ideas.

All transformation begins with an intense, burning desire to be transformed. The first step in the ‘renewing of the mind’ is desire. You must want to be different before you can begin to change yourself.

Then you must make your future dream a present fact. You do this by assuming the feeling of your wish fulfilled.”

“To reach a higher level of being, you must assume a higher concept of yourself.”

“To the unenlightened man this will seem to be all fantasy, yet all progress comes from those who do not take the accepted view, nor accept the world as it is.”

“Watch your assumption with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life. Assumptions have the power of objective realisation.

Every event in the visible world is the result of an assumption or idea in the unseen world.”

“When you know what you want, you must deliberately focus your attention on the feeling of your wish fulfilled until that feeling fills the mind and crowds all other ideas out of consciousness.”

“You are free to choose the concept you will accept of yourself. Therefore, you possess the power of intervention, the power which enables you to alter the course of your future.

The process of rising from your present concept to a higher concept of yourself is the means of all true progress. The higher concept is waiting for you to incarnate it in the world of experience.”

“You must assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled until your assumption has all the sensory vividness of reality.”

“You must be conscious of being healthy if you are to know what health is.”

“You must be conscious of being secure if you are to know what security is.”

“A garden is a cultivated piece of ground, a specially prepared field, where seeds of the gardener's own choice are planted and cultivated.

Gethsemane is such a garden, the place in consciousness where the mystic goes with his properly defined objectives. This garden is entered when man takes his attention from the world round about him and places it on his objectives.”

“All conceptions are limitations of the conceiver.”

“Because of your belief in external things you think power into them by transferring the power that you are to the external thing. Realize you yourself are the power you have mistakenly given to outer conditions.”

“Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live.”

“Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.”

“Don't be anxious or concerned as to results. Results will follow just as surely as day follows night.

Have faith in this planting until the evidence is manifest to you that it is so. Your confidence in this procedure will pay great rewards.

You wait but a little while in the consciousness of the thing desired; then suddenly, and when you least expect it, the thing felt becomes your expression.”

“Education is not accomplished by putting something into man; its purpose is to draw out of man the wisdom which is latent within him.”

“Here is a simple formula for successful fishing. First decide what it is you want to express or possess. This is essential. You must definitely know what you want of life before you can fish for it.

After your decision is made, turn from the world of sense, remove your attention from the problem and place it on just being by repeating quietly but with feeling, 'I am'.

As your attention is removed from the world round about you and placed upon the 'I am' so that you are lost in the feeling of simply being, you will find yourself slipping the anchor that tied you to the shallows of your problem; and effortlessly you will find yourself moving out into the deep.”

“How would I feel if I were free?”

“If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by the evidence of your senses.”

“Instead of fighting against the evidence of the senses you claim yourself to be that which you desire to be. As your attention is placed on this claim, the doors of the senses automatically close against your former master (that which you were conscious of being).”

“It is imagination which makes one a leader while the lack of it makes one a follower.”