Neville Goddard Quotes

“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.”