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.

‘It is just as easy to imagine yourself successful, as it is to imagine failure but far more interesting.’

You need to begin to think clearly and with interest about your goal or objective. When your mind is engaged on your goal or objective, you are using the creative law of mind—it will come to pass.

What you imagine as true already exists in the next dimension of your mind. If you remain faithful to your ideal, it will one day objectify itself. The master architect within you will project on the screen of visibility what you impress on your mind.

You can imagine abundance where lack is, peace where discord is as well as health where there is sickness.

You can develop and cultivate this power to become successful and prosperous.

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 externally can upset you or hurt you without your mental consent.

you do, you must admit you that are the cause of your own mood. You created your emotional reaction. Your attitude is wrong.

If you imagine, for example, that another person is mean, dishonest and jealous, notice the emotion you evoked within yourself.

Your dominant idea about God is your idea of life, for God is life.

You will be looking at the world through the positive, affirmative attitude of mind.

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

We have said previously that all our mental attitudes are conditioned by imagination.

If you imagine that life is cold, cruel, hard, bitter or that struggle and pain are inevitable, you are making life miserable for yourself.

It is really out of the imaginative mind of man that all religions are born.

A genius is a man who is in rapport with his subconscious mind.

All great poets and writers are gifted with a highly developed and cultivated imaginative faculty.

Create a story in your mind that teaches something about the golden rule, then pass that story and all its characters through your spiritualized and highly artistic mentality; your article will be fascinating and intensely interesting to your public.

Men gifted with intuition and imagination find water in the desert and they create cities where formerly other men only saw a desert and a wilderness.

People accomplish great things through quiet moments, imagining that the invisible things from the foundation of time are clearly visible.

great beauty will come forth effortlessly.

Imagination, when disciplined, spiritualized, controlled and directed becomes the most exalted and noblest attribute of man.

All of us read the story of Columbus and his discovery of America. It was imagination that led him to his discovery. His imagination plus faith in a Divine Power led him on and brought him to victory.

Our mind must be like a parachute. The latter opens up; if it does not, it isn’t any good.

Never permit your imagination to be used negatively; never distort or twist it. You can imagine sickness, accident and loss to allow yourself to become a mental wreck. To imagine sickness and lack is to destroy your peace of mind, health and happiness.

Problems are life’s way of asking you for an answer.

Life would become unbearable and unendurable if we did not experience change.

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

‘As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.’

These images said to you, ‘For you only we live!’

meditating in a relaxed way, ‘God reveals the answer!’

All of them get results—not because of the particular technique or method, but because of imagination and faith in the particular process.

Any method or process that alleviates human misery, pain and distress is good.

When you are willing to stand alone with God that is, to cease completely giving power to external things, when you no longer give power to the world of phenomena, which means to make a world of effect a cause.

If you are not at that level of consciousness where you can grow a tooth through prayer, the obvious thing to do is to go see a dentist.

‘God is guiding me now and there is only right action in my life.’

Prayer is a habit. This broker regularly and at frequent intervals during the day returned to the mental image in his mind; he made it a deep, subjective pattern.

Many people solve their dilemmas and problems by the play of their imagination, knowing that whatever they imagine and feel as true, will and must come to pass.

The phrase she said was: ‘There has been a perfect, harmonious solution. The whole case is settled outside court.’

In the science of imagination, you must first of all begin to discipline your imagination and not let it run riot.

If you wish a chemically pure product, you must remove all traces of other substances as well as extraneous material. You must, in other words, separate out and cast away all the dross.

You must focus all your attention on your ideal and refuse to be swerved from your purpose or aim in life.

Let your choice be, ‘I am going to imagine whatsoever things are lovely and of good report.’

In other words, the thing he fears does not exist save in his morbid imagination;

As they continue to make a habit of these negative patterns of thought, they condition their subconscious mind negatively.

The picture in your mind is the way you want things to be.

Desire and feeling joined together in a mental marriage will become the answered prayer.

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

Your world is a mirror reflecting back to you your inner world of thought, feeling, beliefs and inner conversation.