165 Quibbles and Bits
I love a grilled burger. I love every bit of it. The bun too! But for a long time I punished myself, doing violence to my desires.

I love a grilled burger. I love every bit of it. The bun too! But for a long time I punished myself, doing violence to my desires.
An origin story. It all began with one phone call...
"Begin now to practice the art of imagining every day." Neville Goddard
"Then you will be free of the greatest tyranny in the world, and the greatest tyranny in the world is the belief in the secondary cause." Neville Goddard
One person's disaster is another's opportunity to grow, to expand, to shift into a lovelier state of consciousness.
Things are so much simpler by living in the end than focusing on the possible means to the end.
Everything changes from the instant I imagine myself into a different state of consciousness. My course has altered. I don’t have to wait or look for the series of events that will lead to it because I am already encountering them. Everything that happens from the point of my assumption on is my new state unfolding in my life. If I don’t live in that assumption, then I won’t express it.
I want to encourage you to live boldly. You can be anything you want in this world and you don’t have to manipulate or persuade anyone to get it.
Your feelings of lack or worry naturally drop away as you move into and dwell in the state of your wish fulfilled . It’s a product of your motion into another state, not a step you have to take.
"I take scene after scene and rewrite it, revise it, and having revised my day, then in my imagination I relive that day, the revised day, and I do it over and over in my imagination until this seeming imagined state begins to take on to me the tones of reality. It seems that it's real, that I actually did experience it and I have found from experience that these revised days, if really lived, will change my tomorrows." From Neville's lecture, "The Pruning Shears of Revision"p You are so much bi...
“The question is often asked, “What should be done between the assumption of the wish fulfilled and its realization? Nothing." Neville Goddard
"When I pray, I am moving toward the fulfillment of my wish. My father’s house is within me and that’s where I find the many houses, the infinite states of consciousness. I can pick any of them to inhabit."
Let's see, this episode has Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and limiting beliefs. You are Imagination with a capital I, imagining your identity, your body, your world into existence. How can you have limits? I mean real limits.
What if two people desire the same thing? What if they both know the power of imagination?
Three beautiful stories about my niece, who is discovering who she really is.
I've got some dirty laundry to share with you today.
A good friend of mine asked me the other day, “Do you really think a 48 year old guy with no money can go from zero to wealth creator if he only assumes it?" I replied, “Do you think a 47 year old man who’s stuck in a wheelchair, diagnosed with permanent brain damage and an awful movement disorder can be healed by simply assuming it?” He said, “Point well taken, thank you.”
“What you decide on will be done, and light will shine on your ways.” Job 22:28
Drop your reliance on seemingly outside forces and turn to the power and wisdom of God. Wanna know where it is? Look in the mirror.
Everything exists in Imagination. Nothing is truly lost.
“There is only one God, one cause of all life. He is not only above all and through all; he is in all. The universally diffused individuality is in each one of us in his fullness. Dwelling in each individual bodily, the father sleeps until the storm is over. Then he awakens and rebukes the storm that he created during his sleep, and there is a great calm. If you will accept this as your philosophy of life, and not turn to the left or the right, but claim you are solely responsible for the phenom...
“Do I really believe that imagining creates reality? If I do, I couldn’t worry, for worry is to only conjure what I fear in this world. For worry is an imaginal act. I couldn’t possibly be concerned about anything if I really believe that imagining creates reality." Neville Goddard “There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.” 1 John 4:18
The topic for this episode came up during a lovely conversation I had with a friend. We chatted about what I do when I am experiencing pain, when symptoms are shouting for attention.
“I have given you every place that the sole of your foot will tread on, as I told Moses.” Joshua 1:3 Wherever I go in imagination, even if it’s harmful to me, it will be mine. Whatever state of consciousness I inhabit, I’ll express.
Prayer is made up of two Greek words. One means 'vicinity of, movement toward,' and the other means, 'to wish.' When we have a desire, we move toward the fulfillment of that wish. We exchange the state we are in for the state of the wish fulfilled. And we do what God did and does. We move across the living waters within us.
On the level most people prefer to talk about, the promised land is whatever those things are that you want in life. Health, wealth, security, love. And you find the fulfillment of those desires by turning to the only God - I AM.
In Imagination I live and move and exist.
"Know what forgiveness is? It’s a creative power. You take anyone in this world and the minute you see them less than they ought to be seen, you identify them with the idea that you’d like to see them express, and persuade yourself that they are expressing it. That is creative power: it tests your ability to enter the opposite and partake in the opposite. It’s all creation. And here you start to create in the biggest way by using your Imagination." From Neville's lecture, "The Man Within"
I have had plenty of "failures" since diving into Neville and I can some up the reason why with one word. Timidity.
"If I assume that I am the man that I want to be, let me observe my reactions. If they are as they were, I have not identified myself with my choice, for my reactions are automatic and so If I am changed I would automatically change my reactions to life." From Neville's lecture, "Changing The Feeling of I" I can easily tell if I am in my preferred state by noticing my reactions. How about you?