RE: Act As If We Have What We Want! #179
This is a good philosophy and has worked for me many times. This idea is often talked about in the "New Thought" movement. Two of my favorite New Thought authors are Neville Goddard and Robert Collier. Have you ever read any of their work Jerry?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Thought_writers
“Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and observe the route that your attention follows.”
― Neville Goddard
“Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption and watch the world play its part relative to to its fulfillment.”
― Neville Goddard
“Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Man’s attempt to change the world by force is as fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing his face. Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself.”
― Neville Goddard
“Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be.”
― Neville Goddard
“To reach a higher level of being, you must assume a higher concept of yourself.”
― Neville Goddard
“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. When the truth of this statement dawns upon you, you will know that you have found the lost word or the key to every door. I AM (your consciousness) is the magical lost word which was made flesh in the likeness of that which you are conscious of being.”
― Neville Goddard
Interesting thought, but one this phrase without context is shit. But when you read that he bought pampers, before had a child, your brain start the fire.
OK, I wanna be rich, how rich people behaving? They invest, read, learn something new, socialising, make business ...
Cool, if you do this, you may become rich by behaving like rich.
@adept thank you for recommending me the "New Thought" movement because this is the first I have heard of it directly although I believe I have heard some other mentions of it! Wonderful quotes here and thank you for helping me to see them today!
@jerrybanfield I'm happy you're one to appreciate this stuff! Here's another essential reading I highly recommend. It's a short treatise by James Allen titled "As A Man Thinketh" published in 1903. Here's a link to it:
http://jamesallen.wwwhubs.com/think.htm
This little volume (the result of meditation and experience) is not intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much-written upon subject of the power of thought. It is suggestive rather than explanatory, its object being to stimulate men and women to the discovery and perception of the truth that -
by virtue of the thoughts which they choose and encourage; that mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance, and that, as they may have hitherto woven in ignorance and pain they may now weave in enlightenment and happiness.
-James Allen