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100 passages across the corpus

  • Neville GoddardFeeling Is the Secret (1944) · 1944

    Feeling a state produces that state. The part you play on the world’s stage is determined by your conception of yourself. By feeling your wish fulfilled and quietly relaxing into sleep, you cast yourself in a star role to be played on earth tomorrow, and, while asleep, you are rehearsed and instructed in your part. The acceptance of the end automatically wills the means of realization. Make no mis

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  • Neville GoddardFeeling Is the Secret (1944) · 1944

    The subconscious – unlike the woman of the world who marries her husband to change him – has no desire to change the conscious, waking state, but loves it as it is and faithfully reproduces its likeness in the outer world of form. The conditions and events of your life are your children formed from the molds of your subconscious impressions in sleep. They are made in the image and likeness of your

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  • Neville GoddardFive Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948

    15. Question: Should my husband and I work on the same project or on separate ones? Answer: That is entirely up to you. My wife and I have different interests, yet we have much in common. Do you recall the story I told of our return to the United States this spring? I felt it was my duty as a husband to get passage back to America, so I appropriated that to myself. I feel there are certain things

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  • Neville GoddardQuestions And Answers · 1948

    I personally enjoy telling my plans to my wife, because we both get such a thrill when they come into being. The first person a man wants to prove this law to is his wife. It is said that Mohammad is everlastingly great because his first disciple was his wife. ********** 15. Question: Should my husband and I work on the same project or on separate ones? Answer: That is entirely up to you. My wife

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  • Neville GoddardThe Creative Use of Imagination (1952) · 1952

    This world is like a machine where its actions and reactions are automatic. Separate yourself from this machine-like mind and use your wonderful human imagination to rise to higher and higher levels of your own being. If you do not like the events of your life, change them by controlling your imagination. When you know what you want, ask yourself where you would sleep if you had it. What would you

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  • Neville GoddardThe Power of Awareness (1952) · 1952

    With this picture clearly visualized, and lying flat on his back, he completely relaxed physically. In this way he induced a state bordering on sleep, at the same time retaining control of the direction of his attention. When his body was completely immobilized, he assumed that he was in his own room and felt himself to be lying in his own bed- a very different feeling from that of lying on an arm

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  • Neville GoddardAwakened Imagination (1954) · 1954

    “You must imagine yourself right into the state of your fulfilled desire”, Abdullah told me, “and fall asleep viewing the world from Barbados.” The world which we describe from observation must be as we describe it relative to ourselves. Our imagination connects us with the state desired. But we must use imagination masterfully, not as an onlooker thinking of the end, but as a partaker thinking

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  • Neville GoddardNeville Goddard Lp 1955 How To Use Your Imagination Mental Diets · 1955

    How to Use Your Imagination Side One LP The purpose of this record is to show you how to use your imagination to achieve your every desire. Most men are totally unaware of the creative power of imagination and invariably bow before the dictates of “facts” and accepts life on the basis of the world without. But when you discover this creative power within yourself, you will boldly assert the suprem

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  • Neville GoddardRelease Barabas Crucify Jesus · 1957

    Now it was the season of the year when it was customary to release a man who was imprisoned. “Whom will you have me release unto you? Barabbas or Jesus? And they cried, Release Barabbas! Crucify Jesus!” “And when the wife of Pilate said to him, will you do this thing? he washed his hands,” etc. Now you take that, and that is the code – but what does it really mean? That it took place, actually? We

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  • Neville GoddardThe Law and the Promise (1961) · 1961

    I suggested to my friends that they build an imaginal structure as this woman had done, and that was to sleep, imagining they were physically present in their new home, feeling they had sold their old home. I explained to them the wide difference between thinking of the image of their new house, and thinking from the image of their new house. Thinking of it is a confession they are not in it; thin

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  • Neville GoddardBarabbas Or Jesus · 1963

    Now, this is one level of this fantastic trial. There are numberless levels to this trial. First of all, the word Barabbas means “son of a father.” Jesus means “savior.” Barabbas means “son of a father.” For every child born of a woman is the child of a father. Bar usually means “daughter”; and Ben, son, but they’re interchangeable depending upon the context. And so, Barabbas is now known as “son

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  • Neville GoddardBarabbas Or Jesus · 1963

    Would I like to do that, at the same time not neglecting my obligations tonight? For I am married—there is a husband, a wife, a child, a father, a mother, and all these things in this world—and they must all, if I love them as I think I do, take care of them. And so I want enough to leave them cushioned. Regardless of all things, but maybe they didn’t hear me. But they don’t need my cushion, but m

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  • Neville GoddardNeville Goddard Lectures: “He Is Meditating Me: The Rock” · 1963

    Now let us go into the Silence. Q: If what I want to hatch appears as if it would cause unhappiness to someone else, do I have to worry about that? A: Did you hear the question? If what I want in this world appears that it might cause unhappiness to another. Well, let me give you a personal experience, very personal. When I fell in love with the girl who now bears my name and is the mother of my d

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  • Neville GoddardNeville Goddard Lectures: “The Holy One” · 1963

    But what man will believe that this works? Well, I am speaking from experience. And the only God in this world that never, I would say, I would ever outgrow… I could never outgrow this God, not in eternity. But I could never lose the God that I know through a present-tense experience. How could I ever outgrow that God that produced my escape from Egypt? I know exactly how it works. I know exactly

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  • Neville GoddardNeville Goddard Lectures: “Counting the Cost” · 1963

    Then I woke and wrote the vision down. It was early in the morning, about three or three thirty, so I went back to bed and I re-dreamed the dream. Re-dreaming the dream I had a slight change in the dream. Instead of saying that grandfather said it, I had so absorbed the faith of grandfather, I became grandfather, and I said “I remember when this was an empty lot.” Then I would paint the picture of

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  • Neville GoddardNeville Goddard Lectures: “Counting the Cost” · 1963

    And the other chap, who is a Kennedy, he’s now earning many times what formerly he earned. He can go beyond it. As I said, “You have a daughter just about ready for college and I know if you want to send her to a private college you’re going to have to think in terms of not less than $5,000 a year. And so, you think in terms of an extra five or ten thousand dollars a year.” You say that is selfish

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  • Neville GoddardNeville Goddard Lectures: “Life Has a Purpose” · 1963

    So we are told in the great mystic’s concept—the works of Blake—“And those in great eternity who contemplate on death said thus: ‘What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be… even of despair, torment and eternal death; but the Divine Mercy steps beyond and redeems Man in the body of Jesus’” (Jerusalem, Plate 36). You and I, and you prove it, what seems to be is to those to whom it seems

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  • Neville GoddardNeville Goddard Lectures: “Repent and Believe in the Gospel” · 1963

    As to repentance, learn the art of repentance. It’s the greatest secret in the world as to cushioning the blows and making life easier in this world. Therefore, no one in this world really need despair, they can always repent. I don’t care where you were inserted into the wheel, how you start life, you can always repent. And so, learn the art of repentance. As you learn it, then no matter where yo

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  • Neville GoddardNeville Goddard Lectures: “Wonder-Working Power of Attachment” · 1963

    So this is the threefold. He calls it “soft Beulah’s night,” the thing nearest to heaven in Blake’s terminology. First of all, he has eternity; he calls it Eden, and he likens it to the sun. The sun is the symbol. Then he had next to that “soft Beulah’s night,” and the symbol of that was the moon, for the moon reflects the light of the sun, and this reflects the activity of heaven. Then he has the

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  • Neville GoddardNeville Goddard Binding And Loosing The 1964 Lectures · 1964

    Then six months later, a man who was in the same building, speaking to an enormous crowd—all things being relative, I spoke to six, and when he invited me, oh, six months later, I had grown to twenty—and so, he had an enormous audience of about 600 people, and he thought that he would simply snuff me out by inviting me to take the platform. So I took the platform and he paid me the large amount of

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  • Neville GoddardNeville Goddard Binding And Loosing The 1964 Lectures · 1964

    Now we are told, when man really discovers it, it is the blood of Christ Jesus that must be shed. Well, how could I shed the blood of Christ Jesus? Yet I am told, without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin; therefore, what is sin now? Sin is “missing the mark.” If I have a goal in life and I do not realize it, I am sinning. I don’t care what the world will tell me, it’s the one s

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  • Neville GoddardNeville Goddard Binding And Loosing The 1964 Lectures · 1964

    For she didn’t have the virtue of mercy when she actually aided in the destruction and death of her husband, through a passion that she wanted to, I would say, appease. And so, she certainly was not merciful, she was not one of pity, she was not one of love, and so, he asked her to assume a virtue if she had it not. What virtue? Well, he didn’t name it for her. He allowed her to select the virtue

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  • Neville GoddardNeville Goddard Lectures: “Eternal States” · 1964

    So I’m in Barbados and can’t get out because there aren’t any ships going from Barbados, for this was another year when the war was over. The war broke in the end of 1945, and the first ship out of there I sailed. Not thinking of return, I had no permission to come back into this country. I didn’t have any of these things, but I’m off for Barbados. Then I’m told in Barbados there isn’t a ship, not

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  • Neville GoddardNeville Goddard Lectures: “God Has A Purpose” · 1964

    Tonight’s subject is “God Has a Purpose,” an infinite purpose, and no one will thwart it. But within the framework of his purpose, you and I could have unnumbered objectives, and no one, really, could thwart it if we really understand his law; the law that was given to us…how we, too, can realize these purposes. A purpose, in a strict sense, is a deliberately conceived plan proposing a certain act

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  • Neville GoddardNeville Goddard Lectures: “Jesus or Barabbas?” · 1964

    Alright, here is a simple story told me this week. A man remembers the place in Denver where he slept, and by his own confession in his case history as I received it yesterday morning, he said he slept in a basement, next to a deep freeze. And so, he didn’t tell me why he wanted to return to Denver…just to experiment…and so in his Imagination he slept in the same basement next to the deep freeze.

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