I Am He, Three

I Am He, Three

Take your attention from your present conception of yourself and place it on that ideal of yours, the ideal you had heretofore thought beyond your reach. Claim yourself to be your ideal, not as something that you will be in time but as that which you are in the immediate present. Do this, and your present world of limitations will disintegrate as your claim rises like the phoenix from its ashes.

“Be not afraid, nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s.” You do not fight against your problem; your problem will only live as long as you are conscious of it. Take your attention away your problem and the multitude of reasons why you cannot achieve your ideal. Concentrate your attention entirely upon the thing desired.

“I AM the lord.” I AM (your consciousness) is the lord. The consciousness that the thing is done, that the work is finished, is the Lord of any situation. Listen carefully to the promise, “Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: Set yourself, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord within you.”

Remember the reward is to the one who endures. Stand still. Standing still is the deep conviction that all is well; it is done. No matter what is heard or seen, you remain unmoved, conscious of being victorious in the end. All things are made by such agreements, and without such an agreement there is not anything made that is made. “I AM that I AM.”

All that is required of you who seek a change is to rise to a level of that which you desire; without dwelling upon the manner of expression, record that it is done by feeling the naturalness of being it.

Go to the end of that which you seek; witness the happy end of it by consciously feeling you express and possess that which you desire to express and possess; and you, through faith, already understanding the end, will have confidence born of this knowledge.


Your Faith is your Fortune
Neville Goddard

I Am He, Two

I Am He, Two

Be still and know that you are. This stillness is attained by observing the observer. Repeat quietly but with feeling, “I AM – I AM,” until you have lost all consciousness of the world and know yourself just as being. Awareness, the knowing that you are, is Almighty God; I AM. After this is accomplished define yourself as that which you desire to be by feeling yourself to be the thing desired: I AM that. This understanding that you are the thing desired will cause a thrill to course through your entire being.

It does not matter what the appearances round about you are like. All things make way for the coming of the Lord. I AM the lord coming in the appearance of that which I am conscious of being.

“I AM the light of the world,” crystallizing into the form of my conception of myself. Consciousness is the eternal light which crystallizes only through the medium of your conception of yourself. Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.

Now you will realize why Jesus sanctified Himself instead of others, why to the pure all things are pure, why in Christ Jesus (the awakened consciousness) there is no condemnation. Awake from the sleep of condemnation and prove the principle of life. Stop not only your judgement of others but your condemnation of yourself.

You do not need to work out anything. The works are finished. The principle by which all things are made and without which there is not anything made that is made is eternal. You are this principle. Your awareness of being is this everlasting law. You have never expressed anything that you were not aware of being and you never will. Assume the consciousness of that which you desire to express. Claim it until it becomes a natural manifestation. Feel it and live within that feeling until you make it uour nature.

Stop asking yourself whether or not you are worthy or unworthy to claim yourself to be that which you desire to be. You will be condemned by the world only as long as you condemn yourself.


Your Faith is your Fortune
Neville Goddard

I Am He

I Am He

Man, not knowing that his world is his individual consciousness out pictured, vainly strives to conform to the opinion of others rather than to conform to the one and only opinion existent, namely, his own judgement of himself.

When Jesus discovered His consciousness to be this wonderful law of self-government He declared, “And now I sanctify myself that they also might be sanctified through the truth.” He knew that consciousness was the only reality, that things objectified were nothing more than different states of consciousness. Jesus knew that man’ consciousness was the truth or cause of all that man saw his world to be.

He realized that the world was made in the likeness of man. He knew that man saw his world to be what it was because man was what he was. In short, man’s conception of himself determines that which he sees his world to be.

Not only are all things made by God, all things are made of God (energy, from the Maya of Science, or if you will…consciousness). God is one. Things or divisions are the projections of the one. God being one, He must command Himself to be the seeming other for there is no other. The absolute cannot contain something within itself that is  not itself. If it did, then it would not be absolute, the only one. Commands to be effective must be to oneself. “I AM that I AM” is the only effective command. “I AM the lord and beside me there is none else.” You cannot command that which is not. And there is no other, you must command yourself to be that which you would have appear.


Your Faith is your Fortune
Neville Goddard

Who Am I? Three

Who Am I? Three

To be conscious of being or possessing anything is to be or have that which you are conscious of being or possessing. Therefore, lift yourself to the consciousness of your desire and you will see it automatically outpicture itself.

To do this you must deny your present identity.”Let him deny himself.” You deny a thing by taking your attention away from it. To drop a thing, problem or ego from consciousness you dwell upon God – God being I AM.

Be still and know that I AM is God. Believe, feel that I AM; know that this knowing one within you, your awareness of being, is God. Close your eyes and feel yourself to be faceless, formless and without figure. Approach this stillness as though it were the easiest thing in the world to accomplish.

When all thought of problem or self is dropped from consciousness because you are now absorbed or lost in the feeling of just being I AM, then begin in this formless state to feel yourself to be that which you desire to be, “I AM that I AM.”

The moment you reach a certain degree of intensity so that you actually feel yourself to be a new conception, this new feeling or consciousness is established and in due time will personify itself in the world of form. This new perception will express itself as naturally as you now express your present identity. To express the qualities of a consciousness naturally you must dwell or live within that consciousness. Appropriate it by becoming one with it. To feel a thing, and then rest confidently that it is, makes the thing felt appear within your world.

Remember heaven is your consciousness; the Kingdom of Heaven is within you...Your consciousness is the Father of all that you are.

Go within secretly and appropriate the new consciousness. Feel yourself to be it, and the former limitations shall pass away...This is new consciousness is nothing more than moving from one state of consciousness to another.


Your Faith is your Fortune
Neville Goddard

Who Am I? Two

Who Am I? Two

The I AM (your consciousness) is the only door through which anything can pass into your world. Stop looking for signs. Signs follow; they do not precede. Begin to reverse the statement, “Seeing is believing,” to “Believing is seeing.” Start now to believe, not with the wavering confidence based on deceptive external evidence but with an undaunted confidence based on the immutable law that you can be that which you desire to be. You will find that you are not a victim of fate but a victim of faith (your own).

Only through one door can that which you seek pass into the world of manifestation. I AM the door, Your consciousness is the door, so you must become conscious of being and having that which you desire to be and to have…Before anything appears, God, I AM, feels itself to be the thing desired; and then the thing felt appears. It is resurrected, lifted out of the nothingness.

I AM wealthy, poor, healthy, sick, free, confined were first of all impressions or conditions felt before they became visible expressions. Your world is your consciousness objectified. Waste no time trying to change the outside; change the within or the impression; and the without or expression will take care of itself.

I AM he. Right now I am overshadowing you, the reader, my living temple, with my presence, urging upon you a new expression. Your desires are my spoken words. My words are spirit and they are true and they shall not return unto me void but shall accomplish where unto they are sent…

Just how my words, your desires, will be fulfilled is not your concern. My words have a way ye know not of. Their ways are past finding out. All that is required of you is to believe...All things are possible to him who believes. Make the impossible possible through your belief; and the impossible (to others) will embody itself in your world.

All men have had proof of the power of faith. The faith that moves mountains is faith in yourself. No man has faith in God who lacks confidence in himself. Your faith in God is measured by your confidence in yourself. I and my Father are one, man and his God are one, consciousness and manifestation are one.


Your Faith is your Fortune
Neville Goddard

Who Am I?

Who Am I?

This I AM within you, the reader, this awareness, this consciousness of being, is the lord, the God of all flesh. I AM is He that should come; stop looking for another. As long as you believe in a God apart from yourself you will continue to transfer the power of your expression to your conceptions, forgetting that you are the conceiver.

Consciousness precedes all manifestations and is the prop upon which all manifestation rests. To remove the manifestations, all that is required of you, the conceiver is to take your attention away from the conception. The manifestations will remain in sight only as long as it takes the force with which the conceiver – I AM – originally endowed it to spend itself. This applies to all creation from the infinitesimally small electron to the infinitely great universe.

Be still and know that I AM God, Yes, this very I AM, your awareness of being, is God, the only God.

This presence, your unconditional awareness, comprehends neither beginning nor ending; limitations exist only in the manifestation.

Begin now to identify yourself with this presence, your awareness, as the only reality. All manifestations but appear to be; you as man have no reality other than that which your eternal self, I AM, believes itself to be.

"Whom do you say that I AM?" This is not a question asked two thousand years ago. It is the eternal question addressed to the manifestation by the conceiver. It is your true self, your awareness of being, asking you, its present conception of itself, "Who do you believe your awareness to be?" This answer can be defined only within yourself regardless of the influence of another.

I AM (your true self) is not interested in man's opinion. All its interest lies in your conviction of yourself. What do you say of the I AM within you? Can you answer and say "I AM Christ"? Your answer or degree of understanding will determine the place you will occupy in life. Do you say or believe yourself to be a man of a certain family, race, nation, etc.? Do you honestly believe this of yourself? Then life, your true self, will cause these conceptions to appear in your world and you will live with them as though they are real.


Your Faith is your Fortune
Neville Goddard

Self and Being

Self and Being

Consider the possibility that there are two distinct aspects of your-self. One is what you are originally and naturally. It is your “being,” who you really are without pretense, affection, programming, or any supplementary process. The other aspect is what you have come to know as yourself – a self identity that is created and maintained through all the beliefs, assumptions, and knowledge you’ve acquired in life. Since it’s all you know, it’s not easy to see that this identification of your self is strictly a secondary process. Your self-identity is conceptual; your real being exists prior to concept.

Our ability to transcend the conceptual aspect of self is simply the ability to locate and become deeply conscious of a genuine experience of “being.”

Making a distinction between our real selves - what we might call "being" - and our conceptual selves can sound simple enough on paper, and essentially it is. But in practice we find that we continually bump into obstacles that arise from our habitual thinking and familiar emotions, and from assumptions we unknowingly share as a culture.

In our culture, we spend most of our time looking outward in search of some satisfying experience. We focus on the circumstances of life - attaining our desires and avoiding our fears - yet, when all is said and done, we still find little satisfaction. 

It seems that an honest and clear perception of oneself is "incompatible" with any familiar and habitual self-identity. Rather then dwell in the uncertain realm of the real, it's much easier for us to revert to an already established and acceptable sense of self. Wary of uncharted territory, our awareness falls quickly and easily back into habits and routines that serve our many self-concerns. What we don't realize is that anything we do, think, or feel from here simply adds more layers to the self-identity, further burying what is real. We substitute information for wisdom...So immersed are we in our cultural setting that we unable to recognize how the very methods we use to try to fill the void actually make an authentic experience nearly impossible. 

This way of perceiving ourselves and the world around us greatly hampers our ability to discover new possibilities outside of our familiar experience. Since our experience is dominated by assumptions and beliefs, we`re limited to pursuing a self that is more conceptual than real. 


The Book of Not Knowing
Peter Ralston