Neville Goddard had a gift for expressing profound truths in memorable ways. These quotes, drawn from his lectures and books, capture the essence of his teaching on imagination and assumption.
On Imagination
"Imagination is the very gateway of reality."
"Man is all imagination. God is man and exists in us and we in him. The eternal body of man is the imagination, that is, God himself."
"Imagination creates reality. If you have an intense mental image, it will come to pass."
"An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable."
"The world is yourself pushed out. Ask yourself what you are doing that you no longer wish to do, and then set about stopping it."
"To imagine a state is to enter it. Dwell in the state and it will crystallize into fact."
"Your imagination is you yourself, and the world as your imagination sees it is the real world."
"Imagination is the creative power. It is not make-believe; it is the maker of belief."
"What you imagine with feeling, you will eventually express or experience in your world."
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will."
On the Law of Assumption
"Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and observe the route that your attention follows."
"An assumption, though false, if persisted in, will harden into fact."
"To reach a state, you must assume that you are already there. The assumption that you are already what you want to be is the first step in the transformation."
"Assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled until your assumption has all the sensory vividness of reality."
"The assumption of the wish fulfilled is the ship that carries you over the unknown seas to the fulfillment of your desire."
"Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live."
"The world is a mirror, forever reflecting what you are doing, within yourself."
"If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by them."
"Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Change your thoughts and your world will change."
"Disregard appearances, conditions, in fact all evidence of your senses that deny the fulfillment of your desire."
On Feeling
"Feeling is the secret."
"The feeling of the wish fulfilled is the secret. It is not enough to know what you want. You must feel that you have it."
"Sleep in the feeling of the wish fulfilled and you will resurrect the desire fulfilled."
"Catch the feeling associated with your realized wish and persist in it."
"Nothing comes from without. All things come from within—from the subconscious."
On States of Consciousness
"You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe this is the only reason you do not see it."
"Man moves in a world that is nothing more or less than his consciousness objectified."
"All you can possibly need or desire is already yours. Call your desires into being by assuming the feeling of your wish fulfilled."
"The state you imagine yourself to be in is, for you, the state you are in."
"Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption and watch the world play its part relative to its fulfillment."
On Everyone Is You Pushed Out
"Everyone is yourself pushed out."
"Others only echo that which we whisper to them in our own imagination."
"The behavior of others towards you is determined by your own attitude toward them."
"You do not attract what you want. You attract what you are."
"Change your inner world and the outer world must conform to it."
On Mental Diet
"Watch your inner conversations and you will see that they match your circumstances."
"Your inner conversations are the causes of the circumstances of your life."
"The great secret is a controlled imagination and a well-sustained attention, firmly and repeatedly focused on the object to be accomplished."
"Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness."
"What you consent to can only be discovered by an uncritical observation of your reactions to life."
On Practice and Persistence
"Persist in your assumption and it will become a fact."
"Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself."
"Be still and know that you are that which you desire to be, and you will never have to search for it."
"Test yourselves. Do not accept this truth, or any truth, until you have put it to the test."
"The secret of imagining is the greatest of all problems, to the solution of which everyone should aspire."
On SATS and the Sleepy State
"The best time to impress the subconscious is in a state akin to sleep."
"Fall asleep in the feeling of the wish fulfilled and you will see it harden into fact."
"Never go to sleep feeling discouraged or depressed. Rather, feel confident and anticipate the best."
"Sleep conceals the creative act while the objective world reveals it."
On Revision
"Revision is the key to changing the past."
"Revise the day. Review the day's events and if any occurred that you are not happy with, revise them in your imagination."
"Never accept the unrevised day."
On Faith and Trust
"Faith is loyalty to your unseen reality within."
"Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind."
"The moment you accept full responsibility for your life, you take the first step in transformation."
"You are the designer of your destiny. You are the author. You write the story."
"What you see when you look at anything depends not so much on what is there as on the assumption you make when you look."
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