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Prayer: The Art of Believing QUOTES

Prayer: The Art of Believing QUOTES

1 " The feeling of the wish fulfilled, if assumed and sustained, must objectify the state that would have created it. This law explains why 'Faith is the substance of things not hoped for, the evidence of things not seen' and why 'He calleth things that are not seen as though they were and things that were not seen became seen.' Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and continue feeling that it is fulfilled until that which you feel objectifies itself. "

― Neville Goddard , Prayer: The Art of Believing

2 " Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, and then you believe it to be true. Every dream could be realised by those self-disciplined enough to believe it. People are what you choose to make them; a man is according to the manner in which you look at him. "

― Neville Goddard , Prayer: The Art of Believing

3 " Were you still enough to hear the sound of your beliefs you would know what is meant "the music of the spheres." The mental sound you hear in prayer as coming from without is really produced by yourself. Self-observation will reveal this fact. As the music of the spheres is defined as the harmony heard by the gods alone, and is supposed to be produced by the movements of the celestial spheres, so, too, is the harmony you subjectively hear for others heard by you alone and is produced by the movements of your thoughts and feelings in the true kingdom or "heaven within you. "

― Neville Goddard , Prayer: The Art of Believing

4 " Prayer modifies or completely changes our subconscious assumptions, and a change of assumption is a change of expression. "

― Neville Goddard , Prayer: The Art of Believing

5 " Prayer—the art of believing what is denied by the senses—deals almost entirely with the subconscious. Through prayer, the subconscious is suggested into acceptance of the wish fulfilled, and, reasoning deductively, logically unfolds it to its legitimate end. "

― Neville Goddard , Prayer: The Art of Believing

6 " You do not really give to another—you resurrect that which is asleep within him. "The damsel is not dead, but sleepeth." Death is merely a sleeping and a forgetting. Age and decay are the sleep—not death—of youth and health. Recognition of a state vibrates or awakens it. "

― Neville Goddard , Prayer: The Art of Believing

7 " Thought and feeling fused into beliefs impress modifications upon it, charge it with a mission, which mission it faithfully executes. "

― Neville Goddard , Prayer: The Art of Believing

8 " The subconscious is what a man is. The conscious is what a man knows. "

― Neville Goddard , Prayer: The Art of Believing

9 " The subconscious is that in which everything is known, in which everything is possible, to which everything goes, from which everything comes, which belongs to all, to which all have access. "

― Neville Goddard , Prayer: The Art of Believing

10 " Within that blankness we call sleep there is a consciousness in unsleeping vigilance, and while the body sleeps this unsleeping being releases from the treasure house of eternity the subconscious assumptions of man. "

― Neville Goddard , Prayer: The Art of Believing

11 " Your beliefs, your fixed attitudes of mind, constantly modify your consciousness as it is reflected on the mirror of your mind. Your consciousness, modified by your beliefs, objectifies itself in the conditions of your world. To change the world, you must first change your conception of it. To change a man, you must change your conception of him. You must believe him to be the man you want him to be and mentally talk to him as though he were. All men are sufficiently sensitive to reproduce your beliefs of them. Therefore, if your word is not reproduced visibly in him toward whom it is sent, the cause is to be found in you, not in the subject. As soon as you believe in the truth of the state affirmed, results follow. Everyone can be transformed; every thought can be transmitted; every thought can be visibly embodied. "

― Neville Goddard , Prayer: The Art of Believing

12 " Everything, that can be seen, touched, explained, argued over, is to the imaginative man nothing more than a means, for he functions, by reason of his controlled imagination, in the deep of himself where every idea exists in itself and not in relation to something else. In him there is no need for the restraints of reason, for the only restraint he can obey is the mysterious instinct that teaches him to eliminate all moods other than the mood of fulfilled desire. "

― Neville Goddard , Prayer: The Art of Believing

13 " Whatever state has your attention holds your life. Therefore, to become attentive to a former state is to return to that condition. "Remember not the former things, neither consider the things of old. "

― Neville Goddard , Prayer: The Art of Believing

14 " Imagination and faith are the only faculties of mind needed to create objective conditions. The faith required for the successful operation of the law of consciousness is a purely subjective faith and is attainable upon the cessation of active opposition on the part of the objective mind of the operator. It depends upon your ability to feel and accept as true what your objective senses deny. Neither the passivity of the subject nor his conscious agreement with your suggestion is necessary, for without his consent or knowledge he can be given a subjective order which he must objectively express. It is a fundamental law of consciousness that by telepathy we can have immediate communion with another. "

― Neville Goddard , Prayer: The Art of Believing

15 " Distance, as it is cognized by your objective senses, does not exist for the subjective mind. "If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me." Time and space are conditions of thought; and the imagination can transcend them and move in a psychological time and space. "

― Neville Goddard , Prayer: The Art of Believing

16 " Subjectively, the object of your desire is never far off; its intense nearness makes it remote from observation of the senses. It dwells in consciousness, and consciousness is closer than breathing and nearer than hands and feet. "

― Neville Goddard , Prayer: The Art of Believing

17 " It is not a strong will that sends the subjective word on its mission so much as it is clear thinking and feeling the truth of the the state affirmed. When belief and will are in conflict, belief invariably wins. "

― Neville Goddard , Prayer: The Art of Believing

18 " It is not what you want that you attract; you attract what you believe to be true. "

― Neville Goddard , Prayer: The Art of Believing

19 " Consciousness is the one and only reality. All phenomena are formed of the same substance vibrating at different rates. All is consciousness modified by belief. Out of consciousness I as man came, and to consciousness I as man return. In consciousness all states exist subjectively, and are awakened to their objective existence by belief. The only thing that prevents us from making a successful subjective impression on one at a great distance, or transforming there into here, is our habit of regarding space as an obstacle. "

― Neville Goddard , Prayer: The Art of Believing

20 " Man transmits ideas to the subconscious through his feelings. The subconscious transmits ideas from mind to mind through telepathy. Your unexpressed convictions are transmitted to them without their conscious knowledge or consent, and if subsconsciously accepted by them will influence their behaviour. "

― Neville Goddard , Prayer: The Art of Believing