Acceptance
Man's Perceptions are not bounded by organs of Perception:
he perceives more than sense (though ever so acute) can discover.
HOWEVER MUCH you Seem to be living in a material world, you
are actually living in a world of imagination. The outer, physical events of
life are the fruit of forgotten blossom-times results of previous and usually
forgotten states of consciousness. They are the ends running true to oft times
forgotten imaginative origins.
Whenever you become completely absorbed in an emotional
state, you are at that moment assuming the feeling of the state fulfilled. If
persisted in, whatsoever you are intensely emotional about you will experience
in your world. These periods of absorption, of concentrated attention, are the
beginnings of the things you harvest. It is in such moments that you are
exercising your creative power the only creative power there is. At the end of
these periods, or moments of absorption, you speed from these imaginative
states (where you have not been physically) to where you were physically an
instant ago. In these periods the imagined state is so real that when you
return to the objective world and find that it is not the same as the imagined
state, it is an actual shock. You have seen something in imagination with such
vividness that you now wonder whether the evidence of your senses can now be
believed, and like Keats you ask,
was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music . . .
Do I wake or sleep?
This shock reverses your time sense. By this is meant that
instead of your experience resulting from your past, it now becomes the result
of being in imagination where you have not yet been physically. In effect, this
moves you across a bridge of incident to the physical realization of your
imagined state. The man who at will can assume whatever state he pleases has
found the keys to the Kingdom
of Heaven. The keys are
desire, imagination, and a steadily focused attention on the feeling of the
wish fulfilled. To such a man any undesirable objective fact is no longer a
reality and the ardent wish no longer a dream.
Prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will
not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there
shall not be room enough to receive it. Malachi 3:10
The windows of heaven may not be opened and the treasures
seized by a strong will, but they open of themselves and present their
treasures as a free gift a gift that comes when absorption reaches such a
degree that it results in a feeling of complete acceptance. The passage from
your present state to the feeling of your wish fulfilled is not across a gap.
There is continuity between the so-called real and unreal. To cross from one
state to the other, you simply extend your feelers, trust your touch, and enter
fully into the spirit of what you are doing.
Not by might nor by power but by my spirit, saith the Lord
of hosts.
Assume the spirit, the feeling of the wish fulfilled, and
you will have opened the windows to receive the blessing. To assume a state is to
get into the spirit of it. Your triumphs will be a surprise only to those who
did not know your hidden passage from the state of longing to the assumption of
the wish fulfilled.
The Lord of hosts will not respond to your wish until you
have assumed the feeling of already being what you want to be, for acceptance
is the channel of His action. Acceptance is the Lord of hosts in action.
The Power of Awareness
Neville Goddard
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