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41 " Right inner speech is essential. It is the greatest of the arts. It is the way out of limitation into freedom. Ignorance of this art has made the world a battlefield and penitentiary where blood and sweat alone are expected, when it should be a place of marvelling and wondering. Right inner talking is the first step to becoming what you want to be. "
― Neville Goddard , Awakened Imagination: With linked Table of Contents
42 " Thought is the coin of heaven. Money is its earthly symbol. Every moment must be invented, and our inner talking reveals whether we are spending or investing. Be more interested in what you are inwardly 'saying now' than what you have 'said' by choosing wisely what you think and what you feel now. "
43 " Before us go the results of all that seemingly is behind. Not gone is the last moment—but oncoming. "
44 " Man's ignorance of the future is the result of his ignorance of his inner talking. His inner talking mirrors his imagination, and his imagination is a government in which the opposition never comes into power. "
45 " Man is the garden in which this only-begotten Son of God sleeps. He awakens this Son by lifting his imagination up to heaven and clothing men in godlike stature. We must go on imagining better than the best we know. "
46 " The supreme test of Sonship is the forgiveness of sin. The test that your imagination is Christ Jesus, the Son of God, is your ability to forgive sin. Sin means missing one's mark in life, falling short of one's ideal, failing to achieve one's aim. Forgiveness means identification of man with his ideal or aim in life. This is the work of awakened imagination, the supreme work, for it tests man's ability to enter into and partake of the nature of his opposite. "
47 " Experience has convinced me that an assumption, though false, if persisted in will harden into fact, that continuous imagination is sufficient for all things, and all my reasonable plans and actions will never make up for my lack of continuous imagination. "
48 " Truth depends upon the intensity of the imagination, not upon external facts. Facts are the fruit bearing witness of the use or misuse of the imagination. Man becomes what he imagines. He has a self-determined history. Imagination is the way, the truth, the life revealed. We cannot get hold of truth with the logical mind. Where the natural man of sense sees a bud, imagination sees a rose full-blown. Truth cannot be encompassed by facts. As we awaken to the imaginative life, we discover that to imagine a thing is so makes it so, that a judgment need not conform to the external reality to which it relates. "
49 " Certain words in the course of long use gather so many strange connotations that they almost cease to mean anything at all. Such a word is imagination. "
50 " Imagination is the very gateway of reality. "
51 " By imagination we have the power to be anything we desire to be. Through imagination we disarm and transform the violence of the world. Our most intimate as well as our casual relationships become imaginative as we awaken to 'the mystery hid from the ages,' that Christ in us is our imagination. We then realise that only as we live in imagination can we truly be said to live at all. "
52 " The abundant life that Christ promised is ours to experience now, but not until we have the sense of Christ as our imagination can we experience it. "
53 " To passively surrender to appearances and bow before the evidence of facts is to confess that Christ is not yet born in you. "
54 " He is in the world, and the world is made by him, and the world knows him not: Human Imagination. "
55 " The imaginative man does not deny the reality of the sensuous outer world of Becoming, but he knows that it is the inner world of continuous imagination that is the force by which the sensuous outer world of Becoming is brought to pass. He sees the outer world and all its happenings as projections of the inner world of Imagination. To him everything is a manifestation of the mental activity goes on in man's imagination without the sensuous reasonable man being aware of it. But he realises that every man must become conscious of this inner activity and see the relationship between the inner causal world of imagination and the sensuous outer world of effects. "
56 " What a comfort it is to know that all I experience is the result of my own standard of beliefs; that I am the center of my own web of circumstances and that as I change, so must my outer world! "
57 " It is a marvelous thing to find that you can imagine yourself into the state of your fulfilled desire and escape from the jails which ignorance built. "
58 " The Real Man is a Magnificent Imagination.It is this self that must be awakened. "
59 " No idea presented to the mind can realise itself unless the mind accepts it. It depends on the acceptance, the state with which we are identified, how things present themselves. In the fusion of imagination and states is to be found the shaping of the world as it seems. The world is a revelation of the states with which imagination is fused. It is the state from which we think that determines the objective world in which we live. The rich man, the poor man, the good man, the thief are what they are by virtue of the states from which they view the world. "
60 " Outer reforms are useless if the inner state is not changed. Success is gained not by imitating the outer actions of the successful but by right inner actions and inner talking. "