Neville Goddard Quotes

“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.”

“Never claim 'I shall be that'. Let all claims from now on be, 'I am that, I am'.”

“Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be.”

“Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Man’s attempt to change the world by force is as fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing his face.

Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself. The reflection then will be satisfactory.”

“The numberless unrealized hopes and ambitions of man are the seeds which are buried within the consciousness or virgin womb of man.”

“The quality of denial — when disciplined — protects man from receiving impressions that are not in harmony with his nature.

He adopts an attitude of total indifference to all suggestions that are foreign to that which he desires to express. Disciplined denial is not a fight or struggle but total indifference.”

“The twelve disciples represent the twelve qualities of mind which can be controlled and disciplined by man. If disciplined they will at all times obey the command of the one who has disciplined them.”

“To be conscious of being poor while praying for riches is to be rewarded with that which you are conscious of being, namely, poverty. Prayers to be successful must be claimed and appropriated.

Assume the positive consciousness of the thing desired.”

“To feel a thing intensely, and then rest confidently that it is, makes the thing felt appear within your world.”

“When you drop your desire in consciousness as a seed, confident that it shall appear in its full-blown potential, you have done all that is expected of you.

To be worried or concerned about the manner of their unfoldment is to hold these fertile seeds in a mental grasp and, therefore, to prevent them from really maturing to full harvest.”

“You rise to a higher level of consciousness by taking your attention away from your present limitations and placing it upon that which you desire to be.

Do not attempt this in day-dreaming or wishful thinking but in a positive manner. Claim yourself to be the thing desired. I am that; no sacrifice, no diet, no human tricks.

All that is asked of you is to accept your desire. If you dare claim it, you will express it.”

“Your belief in masters is a confession of your slavery. Only slaves have masters. Change your conception of yourself.”

“Your world is your consciousness objectified. Waste no time trying to change the outside; change the within or the (subconscious) impression, and the without or expression will take care of itself.”