Believe in Yourself

by Joseph Murphy

Age is not the flight of years; it is really the dawn of wisdom and Divine knowledge in you.

When the world said, “It is impossible; it can’t be done,” the man with imagination said, “It is done!” Through

is just as easy to imagine yourself successful as it is to imagine failure, and far more interesting.”

and knows that there is a Creative Power that responds to his mental pictures. The mental images we hold are developed in feeling.

The thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and opinions in your mind are the brethren that challenge you, belittle your dreams, and say to you, “You can’t; it is impossible. Forget it!”

When your mind is engaged on your goal or objective, you are using the creative law of mind, and it will come to pass.

Through your faculty to imagine the end result, you have control over any circumstance or condition.

you wish to bring about the realization of any wish, desire, or idea, form a mental picture of fulfillment in your mind; constantly imagine the reality of your desire. In this way, you will actually compel it into being.

What you imagine as true already exists in the next dimension of mind, and if you remain faithful to your ideal, ...

Your psychological garments are the mental attitudes, moods, and feelings you entertain.

You can imagine abundance where lack is, peace where discord is, and health where sickness is.

When you keep your imagination busy with noble, Godlike concepts and ideas, you will find that it is the most effective of all faculties in your ongoing spiritual quest.

Whatever prison you may be in, whether it is the prison of fear, sickness, lack, or limitation of any kind, remember that Joseph is the commander in prison and can deliver you.

Your mental attitude means your mental reaction to people, circumstances, conditions, and objects in space.

You can develop the right mental attitude when you realize that nothing external can upset you or hurt you without your mental consent.

Do you allow the headlines in the newspapers, the gossip, or the criticism of others to upset you or bring about mental depression? If you do, you must admit that you are the cause of your own mood; you created your emotional reaction. Your attitude is wrong.

Circumstances can affect you only as you permit them.

You will be looking at the world through the positive, affirmative attitude of mind. Your outlook will be positive, and you will have a joyous expectancy of the best.

In scientific prayer, we deal with a principle that responds to thought.

What do you imagine about life? Is it going to be a happy life for you? Or is it one long series of frustrations? “Choose ye whom ye will serve.”

He pointed out that it is only by dwelling on the great, wonderful ideas of the world that we grow and expand.

Use your imagination and go about your Father’s business. Your Father’s business is to let your wisdom, skill, knowledge, and ability come forth; and bless others as well as yourself.

Your Father’s Business is first of all to recognize God as the Great Musician; then meditate, feel, pray, and know that the Inner Music sings or plays through you the Song of God’s Love, and you will play like you have never played before.

Change eternal is at the root of all life.

Always imagine yourself in the other fellow’s place; this tells you what to do.

Picture your ideal in life; live with this ideal.

As a man imagines and feels, so does he become.”

“As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”

Imagination clothes all ideas and gives them form.

Whether the object of your belief be true or false, you will get the same results.”

When you are willing to stand alone with God and cease completely giving power to external things; when you no longer give power to the phenomenalistic world, which means to make a world of effect a cause; and when all your allegiance is given to the Spiritual Power within you, realizing it as the only Presence and the only Cause, you will not need any props of any kind.

As long as you believe in external causes, you will seek external remedies.

Prayer is a habit.

discipline your imagination and not let it run riot.

In the science of imagination, you eliminate all the mental impurities, such as fear, worry, destructive inner talking, self-condemnation, and the mental union with other miscellaneous negatives.

“From this moment forward, I will admit to my mind for mental consumption

only those ideas and thoughts that heal, bless, inspire, and strengthen me.”

Whatever you give attention to will grow, magnify, and multiply in your experience.

Like attracts like.

Truly the only sin is ignorance.

Affirm now the sovereignty and authority of this Spiritual Power within you—the Principle of all life. Claim Divine guidance, strength, nourishment, and peace, and this Power will respond accordingly,

To concentrate properly, you still the wheels of your mind and enter into a quiet, relaxed mental state.

The outside mirrors the inside. External action follows internal action.

To worry means to strangle.

” Do not question the manner in which the answer to your prayers will come.

Become convinced now that there is a power within you that is capable of bringing what you imagine and feel as true into manifestation.

You must know and believe that you are operating a law of mind; become convinced of your God-given power to use your mind constructively to bring into manifestation the thing you desire.

Know what you want.

Imagine clearly the fulfillment of your desire; then you are giving the subconscious something definite to act upon.

Believe that you have received, and ye shall receive. “Whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.”