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Assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled and go to sleep in this mood.
Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and your dimensionally greater self will determine the means.
You can persist in the assumption that you are wealthy.
Persist in that assumption and it will harden into fact.
You can assume any state and persuade yourself that it is so, and it will become so.
Persist in your assumption and it must come to pass.
Prayer is the art of assuming the feeling of being and having that which you want.
You can assume anything in this world, for the Being assuming is God.
All you need is to assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled.
Assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled.
Persist in your assumption and it will harden into fact.
Assume the mood of fulfilled desire, and by the universal law of reversibility you will realize your desire.
Our prayers are answered if we assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled and continue in that assumption.
Persist in your assumption and in a way that no one knows, it will become true for you!
Go to the end and assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled.
You can get it by simply assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled, and remaining faithful to that assumption.
Assume the spirit, the feeling of the wish fulfilled, and you will have opened the windows to receive the blessing.
Deny the evidence of the senses, and assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled.
You must assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled until your assumption has all the sensory vividness of reality.
All you have to do is assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled, for if you do, it will become true!
Assume things are as you want them to be, for an assumption, persisted in will harden into fact!
Well, assume it, and assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled.
You must control the direction of the movements of your attention.
To do this you take your attention away from all that is now your problem or limitation and dwell upon just being.
Take them into the garden and let them see and then watch their reactions.
You will simply watch it come to pass.
You can see and smell it the degree your attention is centered on it.
All of the townspeople gathered around to watch, and I was favored to win.
You can watch his facial expression change as he speaks to you.
You think you overcome it, and then you watch.
Take your attention away from your problem and the multitude of reasons why you cannot achieve your ideal.
All Things Are Possible Lecture 3rd November 1967 Jesus Christ is the true identity of every one!
You are not called upon to test a tradition of man as something on the outside, but Jesus Christ who is in you!
Dwell upon that hope which is the grace that is coming to you at the unveiling of Christ in you, as you!
You are only doing it to yourself, really, for Christ is the reality, the true identity of every being.
You can test him and find out for yourself that Jesus Christ is in you.
You are Christ, as he is your very self!
You who heard me this night, dwell upon the thought that you are giving birth to Christ.
Will you accept the idea that the Spirit of Christ is crucified on you and buried in you?
You can't exhaust the subject of Christ, but man is forever misunderstanding it.
You cannot discriminate between the Spirit of Christ and the Spirit of Jehovah, so who is the Son?
That is Christ in me, and all things are possible to Christ.
So set your heart fully upon that world which you will enter at the unveiling of Christ from within.
Because consciousness is the only reality I must assume that I am already that which I desire to be.
Consciousness is the one and only reality.
Know that your consciousness is the only reality.
You are God, as you have just discovered for your consciousness is God, and you have an idea, a message.
You have dominion if, as you walk the earth, you know that your consciousness is God, the one and only reality.
Consciousness is the way or door through which things appear.
Consciousness is the cause as well as the substance of the entire world.
Consciousness is the one and only reality, not figuratively but actually.
Unconditioned consciousness is God, the one and only reality.
Your consciousness is the cause of your world.
Consciousness is the only cause and the only reality.
You can only forgive to the degree that "complete" change of consciousness takes place.
Consciousness is one, manifesting in legions of forms or levels of consciousness.
The very center of consciousness is the feeling of I AM.
To hear that which you desire does exist and you need only to accept it in consciousness is good news.
Consciousness is the door through which life reveals itself.
Consciousness is the eternal light, which crystallizes only through the medium of your conception of yourself.
Consciousness is the vine and that which you are conscious of being is as branches that you feed and keep alive.
Consciousness is united to that which it is conscious of being.
Remember, heaven is your consciousness; the Kingdom of Heaven is within you.
This state of consciousness is necessary for true meditation.
Your consciousness is Lord and Husband, Isaiah 54:5; the conscious state in which you dwell is wife or beloved.
He urges you, through the language of desire, to accept that which is not that which is to be!
Choose your desire and, to the degree that you are self-persuaded that you have it, you will get it.
You can take this same concept into all levels of your being, for any desire is a concept.
The spanning of the bridge between desire thinking of and satisfaction thinking from is all- important.
That is the secret: thinking from what I want, instead of thinking of what I want.
You can start now from scratch and choose the being you want to be.
Persist in this thought, for persistence is the way to bring your desire to pass.
Do not choose one who would sympathize with you, for you do not want sympathy.
You see what you want to see, and enter into and live it as if it were true.
On the record, I spoke of the difference between thinking of your desire and thinking from it.
Persist, and your desire will be objectified.
He is telling you that every noble thing you desire is possible, because all things are possible to him.
Persist in believing in yourself and you will have your desire, because all things come out of you!
No matter what it is you desire, remember: nothing is impossible.
All that is asked of you is to accept your desire.
Make it conform to your dream, to your ideal, and live in it just as though it were true.
You are dreaming right now, for this world is the dream you and I agreed to complete.
You must enter the dream as if you were actually there.
You can sit quietly and enter a glorious dream.
Remember: the dreamer in her is also the being in the director's chair.
You are in this world because you are in love with the being you believe yourself to be.
All things are possible to him who believes and with God all things are possible, so is God not one with the believer?
Believe that all things are possible to you and that you are what you want to be.
If all things are possible to God and if all things are possible to the believer, can you believe?
Remember: all things are possible to him who believes, and with God all things are possible.
Man must firmly come to believe that reality lies within him and not without.
For, "all things are possible to God." (Matthew 19:26) Can a man really believe that?
If you can believe that, then all things are possible to you.
You can read of my experiences and believe them or disbelieve them.
You must test yourself to see if you believe that Jesus Christ is in you.
You can believe them or reject them, but you will never know their truth until scripture is experienced.
You can't turn back now and believe in any outside God.
You are that which you believe yourself to be.
Man finds it difficult to believe that such a power is housed within him.
You are a good husband and a good father, but I do not believe in your teaching.
Believe in Christ, for all things are possible to Christ.
Believe that all things are possible to him.
Will you believe that with God all things are possible? (Mark 10:27) Will you believe that all things are possible to man?
You must believe in yourself or die in your sins!
You cannot give what you do not have and you have only what you believe.
That all things are possible to God, that no matter what you believe, it will come to pass.
Can you believe all things are possible to God?
Feel your desire is fulfilled, then allow your Father to give it to you.
The desire to repeat the act of prayer is lost, having been replaced by the feeling of accomplishment.
You can FEEL this to be so real that upon opening your eyes you are amazed to find that you are not physically there.
You can satisfy self by appropriating the feeling that you are what you want to be.
You must, with the minimum of effort permeate the mind with the feeling of the wish fulfilled.
Persist in that feeling, and in a way you do not know and could not devise, your desire will become a fact.
Persist in revising it until you can let go of that ball by feeling the breath of relief because it is done.
Persist in that feeling and in a way no one knows the solution will come to pass.
You must clothe yourself in the feeling that your wish is fulfilled.
You must change those statements to I feel wonderful.
You cannot do the work of one that you do not feel you are.
You must know what you want before you can feel that you have it, and prayer is the feeling of the fulfilled desire.
He must persist until his feeling of the wish fulfilled has all the sensory vividness of reality.
And let us guard our feelings even more zealously in the act of prayer, for prayer is the true creative state.
The feeling of the wish fulfilled is a necessary condition in mans search for the goal.
You must feel yourself into and partaking of your goal.
You can see him stand erect, wearing clothes he is proud of, as you feel the thrill of his change.
Commit yourself to the feeling of the wish fulfilled, in faith that this act of self-commission will become a reality.
Frequent occupancy of the feeling of the wish fulfilled is the secret of success.
You must clothe Jacob with such external qualities that he will feel objectively real to you.
You cannot be in the presence of the Risen Christ and feel any emotion but Love.
You enter a state through the medium of feeling, through feeling that you are already what you want to be.
You are free to choose one, but I will prophesy for you: Any power outside of yourself will enslave you!
Choose life, choose blessing." But the choice is ours for we are free.
You are free to choose the concept you will accept of yourself.
You cannot see the face of God until you are born from above.
You are the child of God, and God is Spirit.
There never was another and there never will be another God, and all things are possible to him.
Enter The Dream Lecture 21st November 1969 God only acts and is in existing beings or men.
If all things are possible to God, are not all things possible to me?
And since all things are possible to God, all things are possible to him.
Remember that every moment of time God is begetting himself in us and you cannot fail.
You are MAN, this generic man that is God.
We are told that: With God, all things are possible.
No limitation is placed upon God, With God, all things are possible, no limitation.
Only the limitation is placed upon God-as-man, because, With God all things are possible, without restriction.
Therefore, with God all things are possible, (Mark 10:27) and therefore with Man all things are possible.
You are not something less than God; there is only God.
You are told, You are sons of God, but you will die like men.
And, because all things are possible to God, they are possible to me.
You can't be more than God, so you are God.
Anything in this world, all things are possible to God.
You cannot, by any effort on your part, bring about this birth or enter the Kingdom of God.
And because all things are possible to God, anything can be called forth with his name.
You are sent by God and God is spirit.
You are the Son of God now, an "I", which he is extending.
Remember, you can only sin against that self of you who is God.
But man cannot believe in the reality of "I AM." Something entirely different.
You may either accept this truth or reject it, but what I am telling you is true.
The first is our failure to believe that I AM He and the second is the eating of the tree of good and evil.
And if all things are possible to God and his name is "I AM" can a fact not be changed?
Do you really believe there is only one God, who is in you in his entirety, and his name is I AM?
That the great I AMness in man is God and that all things are possible to Him.
I am convinced that ninety-nine percent of the world will claim to believe in God, but they believe in a false god.
You are not someone apart from God, for I AM cannot be divided.
For you are told, Unless you believe that I AM He, you will die in your sins.
I am not called upon to believe in any other being, for any other being is a false god.
You can say, I am a poor man, and see the man reflected in the eyes of those who know he is poor.
Having found God and his creative power, believe in him, for everyone who believes will be sent as I am sent.
Then say to yourself and yourself alone: 'Unless I believe I am secure I will die in my sins.
I can choose the good, but I am free, I can choose the evil.
I am convinced that the Thing-That-You-Really-Are is dreaming what you believe yourself to be.
I begin then to remember who I am and I AM He, for God and man are one.
Believe that all things are possible to your own wonderful human I AMness.
You cannot say "I AM" unless God is in you.
Remember: the source of all life is I AM!
Right now I am thinking from Los Angeles; every part of this world, if I should think of it, I'm thinking of it.
Believe me, for what I am telling you is true.
If you don't believe now that I AM the one that I would be, then you are missing your goal and you are sinning.
All things are possible to you, because you are all imagination and imagination creates reality.
You can think of a thousand reasons why its possession is impossible; but, hearing that imagination creates reality, you can imagine you have it.
Imagine yourself depressed, and imagination will throw you into the pit of depression.
You can imagine anything, cover the act with faith by believing in its reality, and it will come to pass.
And all things are possible to the human imagination, therefore, all things are possible to Jesus Christ, So, imagine yourself (and you name it).
You will then discover that Imagination creates Reality.
All things are possible to God, therefore, all things are possible to imagine!
Remember: God in you creates and sustains your world by the use (or misuse) of your human imagination.
You can imagine a state, remain faithful to it and it will be made alive for you.
Learn to control your wonderful imagination and you will discover that the whole vast world is yourself pushed out.
Prayer is imagination drenched in feeling.
Imagine only such states that are of value or promise well.
If all things are possible to your imagination, then all things are possible to imagine!
You can attain any goal if you believe that your own wonderful human imagination is the Lord Jesus Christ.
The minute you make it pleasurable and imagine that you are it, you start thinking from the end.
What you truly and literally must feel is that with your imagination, all things are possible.
Because all things are possible to imagine, you can be anything you want to be.
Every time you imagine, God is acting and all things are possible to him.
They discover Imagination creates Reality, and disliking someone they will imagine something bad and by their very intensity, bring it to pass.
Believe that because all things are possible to imagine, the state you have imagined must become an external fact.
Imagine (think of) a war and God will provide that, too.
Think (imagine) a horrible earthquake and God will give it to you.
Hold fast to the visions I have shared with you, for in time my Word will take root and grow within you.
Watch it; be careful what you are saying, because your whole vast world is this inner conversation pushed out.
Dwell upon my words for, in spite of all the turmoil in the world, we are all one.
Remember, the word means Jehovah remembers.
Remember, Every word that goeth forth from my mouth shall not return unto me void.
Remember, the body of scripture is the Word and the Word is God.
Dwell upon their meaning and you will awaken from within as God's word unveils itself in you.
Remember, not every word of scripture is significant.
Those who come to me, accept my experiences of scripture, and abide in my words, I will call, and no one will be lost.
You are seated on the floor explaining the Word of God to those who are seated before you, and he is one of them.
Dwell upon the words recorded there and try to find out what is being said.
We are the Word spoken by God; but remember: God Himself is the Word.
You are the incarnated Word of God, who at one moment in time will be called.
Remember that Love is always creative, causative in every sphere from the highest to the very lowest.
Dwell upon all the lovely things in life for yourself and others, as there is no other.
Remember: you have only one lover, only one husband.
They are really dramatizations of the technique of prayer, for prayer is the secret of changing the future.
The prayer is that they be one as we are one.
Prayer is nothing more than the subjective appropriation of the objective hope.
So, prayer is the subjective appropriation of the objective hope.
Prayer is an illusion of sleep which diminishes the impression of the outer world and renders the mind more receptive to suggestion from within.
Prayer is believing that we have already received that which we ask.
The law that governs prayer is impersonal.
All I can say to him is: pray that you will remember.
Prayer - The Art of Believing It is not what you want that you attract; you attract what you believe to be true.
Those who do practice the art of prayer are often ignorant of the laws that control it.
If anything is kept back, the prayer is vain.
On the contrary, prayer is to be contrasted with an act of will.
Prayer is the elevation of the mind to that which we seek.
The necessity of persistence in prayer is shown us in the Bible.
Unless we believe that we receive, our prayer will not be answered.
Therefore, if the prayer is not answered, you are praying to a wrong god.
And the great secret of prayer is thinking from, rather than thinking of.
Dwell there as though it were true, and you will have learned the secret of prayer.
The technique of prayer is mastering your inner motion.
Prayer is the most wonderful experience man can have.
Scripture urges us to revise, to forgive, and change our thoughts, thereby changing the conditions of our life.
Forgive, not merely from a sense of duty or service; forgive because you want to.
Revise, then drop it as he dropped the ball.
Scripture tells us there are two things, which God finds impossible to forgive.
Man can revise the past, and change it as though it never happened.
You are called on only to forgive him.
You do not say to another: "I forgive you." That means nothing.
You can revise it, and change it, even though you are confronted with a seemingly insoluble problem.
You are told "Forgive and you shall be forgiven.
You promised to play it all, and bring forth all, and forgive all.
You can forgive him anything knowing he is playing a part written for him by God.
You can, if the day is unpleasant, revise it.
Forgive them Father for they know not what they do." Then you will awaken to the realization that your I AM is God.
Only God can forgive sin, and you can forgive sin: therefore, are you not he?
Only God can forgive, and God is I AM.
Nevertheless, you will die like men, and fail as one man, Oh princes. (Psalm 82), I will accept that.
Remember, the Bible evokes, it does not describe.
You can study journalism or literature, but not scripture; for it is all revelation, all vision, written to evoke, not describe.
You are the Son of Man spoken of in Scripture, which is the title most often used as Christ.
You are destined to fulfill scripture and, like me, know from personal experience that you are God the Father.
All things are possible to God (Matthew 19:26), but man worships a false god.
As you are told in Scripture, You cannot enter the kingdom of heaven unless you are born from above.
You are the central being of scripture, the one called Jesus Christ, who is the Lord God Jehovah, who descended here for a purpose.
All the characters live in the mind of the individual man.
You are already that which you seek and you have no one to change but Self in order to express it.
Let no man pass judgment on that servant, for the Master is in control.
Do not dwell on the imperfection of yourself or others.
And it is this self that we must first accept and then set about to change.
You can not only rework your concept of self into a new one, but you can rework another.
You can become self-persuaded of anything, and if you do, it will project itself on your screen of space.
You are Man, but on this level, you are a female.
You dwell upon it, and one day you will find yourself in that journey.
People are what you choose to make them; a man is according to the manner in which you look at him.
Man finds it difficult to accept bare truth.
You are presenting not a person, you are presenting, not a man, you are presenting something altogether different.
The play of life moves in a wheel, closed-circuited by time, and man with his short memory cannot remember other times.
I watched the man whose job it is to sit in the square and watch me as he drank his coffee.
Test yourself and see, for all things are possible to him.
You can never give a poor man enough to satisfy him, and the day you stop giving he will cut your throat.
Persist in your repentance, for to the degree that you are self-persuaded it is so, it will be so.
You can remember a sound, a touch, a sight, and put yourself any place.
Don't seek a little man of flesh and blood, for flesh cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.
You are Jacob if you start to plant; every man is the potential Jacob, and Jacob did it by righteousness.
If you do, you will not fall asleep seeing the world as you did last night, you will see it differently.
If this waking world is as much a dream as your sleeping world, you should be able to control it.
The world we enter at night is just as real as this one.
You do not have to fall asleep to dream.
Thinking from the state desired is creative living.
You must enter a state and animate it in order for it to out picture itself in your world.
You can educate a man out of a state, but you cannot prohibit him from occupying it.
An objective, a desire, is an egg, which you can penetrate and occupy.
If I occupy that state it will undo the so-called fact you say is fixed forever.
That is the one that can make real a state that is only a wish.
You can move into any state, for all states are already completed.
You cannot conceive of a state that is not already worked out in detail, waiting for someone to occupy.
Creation is finished and you have free will to choose the state you will occupy.
The last state we will enter is the state of Jesus Christ.
The whole vast world is reproducing itself, based upon the state that you occupy.
But enter it by thinking from the state, and it is the only reality.
All these states are just as real as this room once we occupy them.
You can believe you are healthy, wealthy, successful, or a failure, and to the degree you accept this belief will you express the state.
You may live in a healthy state and not know physical suffering, but you will suffer at the loss of a friend.
And as you occupy the state, it is going to work.
Enter any state and you become that state.
Enter the state of fame, and no power can stop you from expressing it.
You can sit here and enter into a state.
You remain faithful and you, the only living reality in the world, will take the state, and the state will bear fruit.
You must believe you are in a certain state.
You can move through all the states; you are not the state.
You did nothing wrong which caused you to enter a body of death called Man.
Remember, creative power will not operate itself.
Make no mistake about this; law is no respecter of persons.
You can put it to the test, and no power in the world can stop it because there is no other power.
This room has reality and substance because you are thinking from it.
There is no other way because the world is yourself pushed out.
Man sets up physical causation, saying you must join the "right" club, live in the "right" neighborhood, know the "right" people.
The outer man must be discarded, because flesh and blood cannot enter the kingdom; so the inner man must be born.
Man sees things today and thinks they are new and wonderful because he cannot remember them.
Remember, you operate your creative power, it does not operate itself.
So, man must be born from above or he cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
You cannot enter the kingdom of heaven until you are first born from above.
You are a man, and you are supposed to be a man born from above and you take a drink.
I promise you: your desire will be fulfilled, for all things are possible to him who believes.
And remember: in spite of the horrors of the world the end result will be beautiful.
There is no stopping the man who can think from the end.
Thinking from the end is an intense perception of the world of fulfilled desire.
Thinking from the end is the way of Christ.
We must move mentally from thinking of the end to thinking from the end.
You may feed your hunger by thinking of your desire, or feed its satisfaction by thinking from its fulfillment.
No, I know the difference between thinking from my wish fulfilled and thinking of it.
You are God's power, wisdom, and glory suffering from amnesia, for you could not pretend to enter this graveyard called earth.
You must watch what you are saying internally to make sure that these conversations coincide with your wish fulfilled.
The world's wise men believe we are heading for the end, but its climax has already occurred.
Do not harvest to the end, but leave some and remember you were once a slave in Egypt.
Dwell in the end, and you will hurt no one.
Persist in acknowledging the joy of fulfillment.
You remain faithful, and it will create the conditions necessary to bring fulfillment.
You are actually the only God, because in the end, there can be nothing but God.
All progress, all fulfillment of desire depend upon the control and concentration of your attention.
The secret of thinking from the end is to enjoy being it.
Knowing your desire, point yourself directly in front of it by thinking from its fulfillment.
You forget it in passing through, and can't remember it until the very end.
You can spend your life acquiring merit and be so good the world will think you are wonderful, yet remain poor.
Can you believe your desire is fulfilled?
You came out of yourself to enter this world, and you will return to yourself enriched by the experience.
You can no more change your environment, or world, by destroying things than you can your refiection by destroying the mirror.
Everything in the world is yourself pushed out.
You can actually have a wish, thank him, and wait for it to appear in this world, and it will.
Everything in the world will be under his control.
The world is yourself pushed out, and you either control it or you don't.
Persist until you enter it, and it will become the only reality.
If you are thinking from that world it seems the only reality.
The whole vast world is yourself pushed out.
You are sent into this world to experience death, for you are immortal.
Remember, without motion it is impossible to bring anything forth, for everything lives in an invisible world.
First of all, the whole vast world is yourself pushed out anyway.
You can be anything in this world but you cannot know it or expect it to come unless you Act.
Do not bow before the dictate of facts and accept life on the basis of the world without.
You will not accept life on the basis of the world without.
You are not dependent on anything in the world, for you are making everything in the world.
Everything and everyone in your world is yourself pushed out.
You are restored to life, and strangely enough, in a world terrestrial just like this, in a body that is new, but unaccountably new.
You are like a garden, already planted and sowed, for this world is too poor to produce one seed.
You simply watch the series of events unfold within your world.
Although you may not realize it, the world is yourself pushed out.
In that world you are in control of everything and everything is alive.
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