Neville Goddard quotes:

Use your imagination lovingly on behalf of another.

Changing your life means changing your past.

The world is a mirror, forever reflecting what you are doing, within yourself.

When you attain the control of the internal direction of your attention, you will no longer stand in shallow water but will launch out into the deep of life.

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

Command any idea to clothe itself in form.

Dream better than the best you know.

Most of us are reflecting life and not affecting it. Your inner speech mirrors your mind, and your mind mirrors God. If you do not change your thoughts, you haven't changed their activity. And if you do not change their activity, the conditions of your life cannot change, for they are only bearing witness to the inner action of your mind.

Your reactions, whether positive or negative, are creative of future circumstances. In your imagination, you can hear words congratulating you on getting a wonderful new job. That imaginal act now goes forward and you will encounter this pleasant experience in the future.

All the honors of men in a state of sleep are as nothing.

All you need is time... and you have it... NOW

Be careful of your moods and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world.

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.

Believe that you are what you want to be.

Capture the feeling associated with your realized wish by assuming the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of the thing you desire, and your wish will objectify itself.

I AM is a feeling of permanent awareness. The very center of consciousness is the feeling of I AM. I may forget who I am, where I am, what I am, but I cannot forget that I Am. The awareness of being remains, regardless of the degree of forgetfulness of who, where, and what I am.

You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe this is the only reason you do not see it.

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."

Man's duty is to raise them to the level of discipleship. When this is accomplished man will say, "I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. I have glorified thee on earth and now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was."

A change of circumstance happens as a result of a change in your state of consciousness.

A change of feeling is a change of destiny.

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 [and intend to be] 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. 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. If this assumption is persisted in until it becomes your dominant feeling, the attainment of your ideal is inevitable.

All you can possibly need or desire is already yours.Call your desires into being by imagining and feeling your wish fulfilled.

An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable.

Become aware of what you are thinking and you will recognize a law between your mood and your surrounding circumstances.

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.

Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption and watch the world play its part relative to to its fulfillment.

Disregard appearances, conditions, in fact all evidence of your senses that deny the fulfillment of your desire. Rest in the assumption that you are already what you want to be, for in that determined assumption you and your Infinite Being are merged in creative unity, and with your Infinite Being all things are possible.

Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself.

Each person is born with an infinite power, against which no earthly force is of the slightest significance.

Faith is being loyal to you unseen reality within

Feeling is the secret.

Fools exploit the world; the wise transfigure it.

For life makes no mistakes and always gives man that which man first gives himself.

Have faith in your imaginel act.

Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true.

I AM (your true self) is not interested in man's opinion. All its interest lies in your conviction of yourself. What do you say of the I AM within you? Can you answer and say, "I AM Christ"? Your answer or degree of understanding will determine the place you will occupy in life. Do you say or believe yourself to be a man of a certain family, race, nation, etc.? Do you honestly believe this of yourself? Then life, your true self, will cause these conceptions to appear in your world and you will live with them as though they are real.

I AM wealthy, poor, healthy, sick, free, confined were first of all impressions or conditions felt before they became visible expressions. Your world is your consciousness objectified. Waste no time trying to change the outside; change the within or the impression; and the without or expression will take care of itself. When the truth of this statement dawns upon you, you will know that you have found the lost word or the key to every door. I AM (your consciousness) is the magical lost word which was made flesh in the likeness of that which you are conscious of being.

I imagine that people see me as they would see me if I were the man that I want to be.

If a man look upon any other man and estimates that man as less than himself, then he is stealing from the other. He is stealing the other's birthright "? that of equality.

If one imagines unlovely things for another, they are going to produce them - not in the other, but in themselves.

If you do not feel natural about what you want to be, you will not be it.

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

If you will assume your desire and live there as though it were true, no power on earth can stop it from becoming a fact.

Imagination and faith are the secrets of creation.

Imagination is nothing more than sensory states. Learn to go beyond an idea by feeling its reality.

Imagination is seeing with the eye of God.

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

Learn to shake yourself loose from what the world believes is the only reality.

Listen closely to your invisible thoughts. What do you hear? What are your words implying? That is their potency. What do you want? Name it and rearrange the structure of your mind to imply you no longer desire it, because you already have it!

Live your life in a sublime spirit of confidence and determination.

Love is not love if there is no beloved.

Man must learn to believe in that which he does not, at the moment, see in order to grant himself that which he desires to have. Man's prayers are always answered, for he always receives that which he believes. The law that governs prayer is impersonal. Belief is the condition necessary to realize the desire. No amount of pleas or ritual will bring about the fulfillment of your desires other than the belief that you are or have that which you want.

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

Man's responsibility, then, is to choose his destination; the motive power to bring him there is furnished by the Infinite.

Nothing comes from without. All things come from within.

NOTHING is impossible to you.

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

Praying, is recognizing yourself to be that which you desire to be, rather than begging God for that which you desire.

Sleep conceals the creative act while the objective world reveals it. In sleep man impresses the subconscious with his conception of himself.

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 cornerstone on which all things are based is man's concept of himself.

The difference between FEELING yourself in action, here and now, and visualizing yourself in action, as though you were on a motion-picture screen, is the difference between success and failure.

THE FIRST STEP in changing the future is Desire, that is, define your objective - know definitely what you want. SECOND: construct an event which you believe you would encounter following the fulfillment of your desire - an event which implies fulfillment of your desire - something which will have the action of Self predominant.

The great secret is a controlled imagination and a well-sustained attention, firmly and repeatedly focused on the object to be accomplished.

The ideal we serve and strive to attain could never be evolved from us were it not potentially involved in our nature.

The ideal you seek and hope to attain will not manifest itself, will not be realized by you, until you have imagined that you are already that ideal.

The journey of life is a mental one, which is taking place in the sea of illusion.

The law operates by faith. If you believe, no effort is necessary to see the fulfillment of your every desire.

The world is a mirror in which everyone sees himself reflected

The world is yourself pushed out. Ask yourself what you want and then give it to yourself! Do not question how it will come about; just go your way knowing that the evidence of what you have done must appear, and it will.

There is nothing more important than developing your imagination to transform your life from the inside world of your thoughts and feelings to the outside world of your results and manifestations.

Through your ability to think and feel, you have dominion over all creation.

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 desire a state is to have it.

Truth depends upon the intensity of imagination, not upon facts.

What you consent to can only be discovered by an uncritical observation of your reactions to life. Your reactions reveal where you live psychologically; and where you live psychologically, determines how you live here in the outer visible world.

Whatever you desire, believe that you have received it, and you will.

Whenever your feeling is in conflict with your wish, feeling will be the victor.

Where knowledge ends... feeling and imagination begin.

With your desire defined, quietly go within and shut the door behind you. Lose yourself in your desire; feel yourself to be one with it; remain in this fixation until you have absorbed the life and name by claiming and feeling yourself to be and to have that which you desired. When you emerge from the hour of prayer you must do so conscious of being and possessing that which you heretofore desired.

You believe in God? Believe also in your imagination.

You cannot persist in wanting what you already have. If you assume you are what you desire to be to the point of ecstasy, you no longer want it. Your imaginal act is as much a creative act as a physical one wherein man halts, shrinks and is blessed, for as man creates his own likeness, so does your imaginal act transform itself into the likeness of your assumption. If, however, you do not reach the point of satisfaction, repeat the action over and over again until you feel as though you touched it and virtue went out of you.

You must assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled until your assumption has all the sensory vividness of reality. You must imagine that you are already experiencing what you desire. That is, you must assume the feeling of the fulfillment of your desire until you are possessed by it and this feeling crowds all other ideas out of your consciousness.

Your assumption, to be effective, cannot be a single isolated act, it must be a maintained attitude of the wish fulfilled.

Your Imagination is YOU yourself, and the world as your Imagination sees it is the real world.

Your inner being is he who men call God.

Your opinion of yourself is your most important viewpoint. You are infinitely greater than you think you are.

There is no limit to your creative power.

All conceptions are limitations of the conceiver.