Be What You Wish Quotes

“William Blake: "In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.”
― Neville Goddard, Be What You Wish

“Signs follow, they do not precede.”
― Neville Goddard, Be What You Wish

“There is nothing wrong with our desire to transcend our present state. There would be no progress in this world were it not for man’s dissatisfaction with himself. It is natural for us to seek a more beautiful personal life; it is right that we wish for greater understanding, greater health, greater security.”
― Neville Goddard, Be What You Wish

“affirm that we are already that which we hope to be and live as though we were,”
― Neville Goddard, Be What You Wish

“He who rises from his prayer a better man, his prayer has been granted.”
― Neville Goddard, Be What You Wish

“The spiritual man speaks to the natural man through the language of desire.”
― Neville Goddard, Be What You Wish

“The perfect man judges not after appearances; he judges righteously. He sees himself and others as he desires himself and them to be. He hears what he wants to hear.”
― Neville Goddard, Be What You Wish

“Determined imagination is the beginning of all successful operation. The imagination, alone, is the means of fulfilling the intention.”
― Neville Goddard, Be What You Wish

“Now you will understand how wise the ancient was when he told us in the Hermetica, "There are two gifts which God has bestowed upon man alone and on no other mortal creature. These two are Mind and Speech, and the gift of Mind and Speech is equivalent to that of immortality. If a man uses these two gifts rightly, he will differ in nothing from the Immortals. And when he quits his body, Mind and Speech will be his guides, and by them he will be brought into the troop of the gods and the souls that have attained to bliss.”
― Neville Goddard, Be What You Wish

“If we do not like what is happening to us, it is a sure sign that we are in need of a change of mental diet. For man, we are told, lives not by bread alone but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God. And having discovered the mouth of God to be the mind of man, a mind which lives on Words or inner talking, we should feed into our minds only loving, noble thoughts. For with Words or inner talking we build our world. Let love's lordly hand raise your hunger and thirst to all that is noble and of good report, and let your mind starve e'er you raise your hand to a cup love did not fill or a bowl love did not bless. That you may never again have to say, "What have I said? What have I done, O All Powerful Human Word?”
― Neville Goddard, Be What You Wish

“The prophet said, "Be ye imitators of God as dear children." How would I imitate God? Well, we are told that God calls things that are not seen as though they were seen, and the unseen becomes seen. This is the way the girl called forth praise and kindness from her employer. She carried on an imaginary conversation with her employer from the premise that he had praised her work, and he did.”
― Neville Goddard, Be What You Wish

“Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world’s famine feed; Speak truly, and each word of thine shall be a fruitful seed; Live truly, and thy life shall be a great and noble creed.”
― Neville Goddard, Be What You Wish

“everything depends upon our attitude towards ourselves. That which we will not affirm as true of ourselves cannot develop in our life.”
― Neville Goddard, Be What You Wish

“There is no coal of character so dead that it will not glow and flame if but slightly turned. Don’t blame; only resolve. Life, like music, can by a new setting turn all its discords into harmonies.”
― Neville Goddard, Be What You Wish

“Everything in the world bears witness of the use or misuse of man's inner talking. Negative inner talking, particularly evil and envious inner talking, are the breeding ground of the future battlefields and penitentiaries of the world. Through habit man has developed the secret affection for these negative inner conversations. Through them he justifies failure, criticizes his neighbors, gloats over the distress of others, and in general pours out his venom on all. Such misuse of the Word perpetuates the violence of the world.”
― Neville Goddard, Be What You Wish

“Here is the way a lady wisely used this law of revision: It appears that two years ago she was ordered out of her daughter-in-law's home. For two years there was no correspondence. She had sent her grandson at least two dozen presents in that interval, but not one was ever acknowledged. Having heard the story of revision, this is what she did: As she retired at night, she mentally constructed two letters, one she imagined coming from her grandson, and the other from her daughter-in-law. In these letters they expressed deep affection for her and wondered why she had not called to see them. This she did for seven consecutive nights, holding in her imaginary hand the letter she imagined she had received and reading these letters over and over until it aroused within her the satisfaction of having heard. Then she slept. On the eighth day she received a letter from her daughter-in-law. On the inside there were two letters, one from her grandson and one from the daughter-in-law. They practically duplicated the imaginary letters that this grandmother had written to herself eight days before. This art of revision can”
― Neville Goddard, Be What You Wish

“This rise is accomplished by affirming that we are already that which we want to be; by assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled. The drama of life is a psychological one which we bring to pass by our attitudes rather than by our acts. There is no escape from our present predicament except by a radical psychological transformation. Everything depends upon our attitude towards ourselves. That which we will not affirm as true of ourselves will not develop in our lives.”
― Neville Goddard, Be What You Wish

“The undisciplined man’s attention is the servant of his vision rather than its master. It is captured by the pressing rather than the important.”
― Neville Goddard, Be What You Wish

“All meditation ends at last with the thinker, and he finds he is what he, himself, has conceived.”
― Neville Goddard, Be What You Wish

“when will and imagination are in conflict, imagination invariably wins.”
― Neville Goddard, Be What You Wish

“Prayer succeeds by avoiding conflict. Prayer is, above all things, easy. Its greatest enemy is effort.”
― Neville Goddard, Be What You Wish

“What we must work for is not the development of the will, but the education of the imagination and the steadying of attention.”
― Neville Goddard, Be What You Wish

“Book of Isaiah---"Go and give beauty for ashes, go and give joy for mourning, give the spirit of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may become trees of righteousness, plantings to the glory of God.”
― Neville Goddard, Be What You Wish

“Imagination has full power of objective realization and every stage of man’s progress or regression is made by the exercise of imagination.”
― Neville Goddard, Be What You Wish

“The future dream must become a present fact in the mind of him who seeks to realize it.”
― Neville Goddard, Be What You Wish