Technique
Short phrase repeated to feeling
33 passages across the corpus
- Neville Goddard A Portrait By Israel Regardie · 1945
In another place, he analyses the nature and character of the Apostles. He concludes that they represent the twelve qualities of mind which can be controlled and disciplined by man. When discussing the story of the disciples’ feet being washed by Jesus, he states that “the foot symbolises the understanding which must be washed of all human belief or conceptions of itself by the Lord.” The story of
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
Answer: I like to take one consuming ambition, restrict it to a single short phrase, or act that implies fulfillment, but I do not limit my ambition. I only know that my real objective will include all the little ones. ********** 28. Question: I find it difficult to change my concept of self. Why? Answer: Because your desire to change has not been aroused. If you would fall in love with what yo
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
wonderful,” or “It is finished.” Repeat that condensed phrase, or action in your imagination over and over again. Then either awaken from that state, or slip off into the deep. It does not matter, for the act is done when you completely accept it as being finished in that sleepy, drowsy state. ********** 23. Question: Two people want the same position. One has it. The other had it and now wants
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
When you have a desire, the deeper you, who men call God, is speaking. He urges you, through the language of desire, to accept that which is not that which is to be! Desire is simply his communion with you, telling you that your desire is yours, now! Your acceptance of this fact is proved by your complete adjustment to it as though it were true. ********** 19. Question: Why do some of us die you
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
Repeat the phrase, “Isn’t it wonderful!” or “Thank you, thank you, thank you,” over and over again until you feel successful. Or, imagine a friend congratulating you. There are unnumbered ways of implying success, but always go to the end. Your acceptance of the end wills its fulfillment. Do not think about getting in the mood to write, but live and act as though you are now the author you desire
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
If we decide to climb a particular flight of stairs, because that is the likely event to follow the realization of our desire, then we must restrict the action to climbing that particular flight of stairs. Should the attention wander off, bring it back to its task of climbing that flight of stairs, and keep on doing so until the imaginary action has all the solidity and distinctness of reality. Th
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
Prove or disprove this law. I know that if you attempt to disprove it, you will prove it, and I will be the richer for your proving it, not in dollars, not in things, but because you become the living fruit of what I believe I am teaching in this world. It is far better to have you a successful, satisfied person after five days of instruction than to have you go out dissatisfied. I hope you will b
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
There is another technique I gave you last night. If you cannot concentrate on an act, if you cannot snuggle into your chair and believe the chair is elsewhere, just as though elsewhere were here, then do this: Reduce the idea, condense it to a single, simple phrase like, “Isn’t it wonderful.” or, “Thank you.” or, “It’s done.” or, “It’s finished.” There should not be more than three words. Someth
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
What you now see ascending is your greater self. When that begins to ascend you enter into the actual state of feeling you are what you want to be. That is the time you lull yourself into the mood of being what you want to be, by either experiencing in imagination what you would experience in reality were you already that which you want to be, or by repeating over and over again the phrase that im
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
Experience has taught me to restrict the imaginary action which implies fulfillment of the desire, to condense the idea into a single act, and to re-enact it over and over again until it has the feeling of reality. Otherwise, your attention will wander off along an associational track, and hosts of associated images will be presented to your attention, and in a few seconds they will lead you hundr
Read passage → - Questions And Answers · 1948
********** 26. Question If security came to me through the death of a loved one, did I bring about that death? Answer: Do not think for one second that you brought about a death by assuming security. The greater you is not going to injure any one. It sees all and, knowing the length of life of all, it can inspire the other to give you that which can fulfill your assumption. You did not kill the pe
Read passage → - Questions And Answers · 1948
1. Question: What is the meaning of the insignia on your book covers? Answer: It is an eye imposed upon a heart which, in turn is imposed upon a tree laden with fruit, meaning that what you are conscious of, and accept as true, you are going to realize. As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is. * * * * * * * * * * 2. Question: I would like to be married, but have not found the right man. How do I
Read passage → - Questions And Answers · 1948
********** 20. Question: What would you consider a full life? Answer: A variety of experiences. The more varied they are, the richer is your life. At death you function in a dimensionally larger world, and play your part on a keyboard made up of a life time of human experiences. Therefore, the more varied your experiences, the finer is your instrument and the richer is your life. * * * * * * * * *
Read passage → - Out of This World (1949) · 1949
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 difference will be appreciated if you will now visualize yourself climbing a ladder. Then with eyelids closed imagine that a ladder is right in front of you and feel you are actually climbing it. Desir
Read passage → - Where Are You From · 1963
But the churches have put barnacles on it, and they teach us to be remorseful, to be regretful; and to this very day you turn on the radio or the TV, they are still talking of the event that should not have happened. They all sit in judgment of God. And here is the whole grand wonderful play unfolding. When one really sees it in the end, and when one completely awakes, he, too, will be able to say
Read passage → - Neville Goddard Lectures: Imagining Creates Reality · 1967
So I repeat, we will not know the truth, not in eternity, until we experience it. After we have experienced the truth we cannot deny it, anymore than we can the humblest evidence of our senses. So she will know the ultimate and the ultimate is when she, herself, is revealed as God the Father and that there is no other God the Father. There is no other God, but he is father, and that’s his final re
Read passage → - Brazen Impudence · 1968
Q: (inaudible) A: I must confess, yes. When I put myself there, it was to convince her that there is something in Billy that survives so-called physical disintegration. I was told by letter that it was terminal; they couldn’t operate. He was completely riddled, the whole body. And not being a doctor I was also told by doctors that if this thing is contracted when you are young, like all young thin
Read passage → - He Is My Ressurrection · 1968
T he gospel, which appears to be a little secular story, is truly a mystery to be known only by revelation. In the 16th chapter of John we are told: “I came out from the Father and came into the world. Again I leave the world and I return to the Father.” In these four short phrases we find the pre-existence of Christ, his incarnation, his death, and his ascension. I could put this in the first per
Read passage → - Infinite Power · 1968
This lady has been called. She has been faithful to the word and proved it to herself in the far regions of her mind. I have given her the word the Father gave me. She has received it and now knows the truth from personal experience. She saw power, personified as man. She knew he was God, yet the man she knew as Neville. She had to experience this in the depth of her soul in order to know that it
Read passage → - Neville Goddard Lectures: “Awake O Sleeper” (July 25, 1968, Marines’ Memorial Club, San Francisco) · 1968
So, as long as I do it, I am enslaved. I am enslaved by this body, by its passions, by its ambitions, by its needs. I have to bathe it, shave it, wash it; and then it has all the normal functions. I must take care of the normal functions like a slave. I’m a slave of the body! The day will come, at the end of my long journey, that I will take off the body of flesh and blood and put on my body of gl
Read passage → - Neville Goddard Lectures: “We Came Out From the Father and Return” · 1968
We’re closing tonight for a little while, and if you are on the mailing list, you’ll receive a notice when we reopen. We do not use your name for any purpose other than to notify you when we are in the city and where, so feel perfectly free to share with us your name and address. We do not sell it, we do not exchange it, or in any way use it for any purpose other than the purpose for which I told
Read passage → - Correct Prayer
Prayer “Prayer is the most wonderful experience man can have. Unlike the daily murmurings of the vast majority of mankind in all lands who by their vain repetitions hope to gain the ear of God, prayer is the ecstasy of a spiritual wedding taking place in the deep, silent stillness of consciousness.” – Neville “Praying, then, is recognizing yourself to be that which you desire to be rather than beg
Read passage → - Neville Goddard Lectures: “Out of This World” Chapter 1 – Thinking Fourth Dimensionally
The future event is a reality now in a dimensionally larger world; and, oddly enough, now in a dimensionally larger world, is equivalent to here in the ordinary three-dimensional space of everyday life. 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. Th
Read passage → - Neville Goddard Radio Lectures #8: “Affirm The Reality Of Your Own Greatness”
Creativeness is basically a deeper receptiveness, a keener susceptibility. The future dream must become a present fact in the mind of anyone who would alter his life. Every great out-picturing is preceded by a period of profound absorption. When that absorption is filled with our highest ideal, when we become that ideal, then we see it manifest in our world and we realize that the present does not
Read passage → - The Miracle of Imagination
Answer: What must you do? Assume the story has already been written and accepted by a great publishing house. Reduce the idea of being a writer to the sensation of satisfaction. Repeat the phrase, “Isn’t it wonderful!” or “Thank you, thank you, thank you,” over and over again until you feel successful. Or, imagine a friend congratulating you. There are unnumbered ways of implying success, but alwa
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