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Nothing Works Until YOU Become The Operant Power · Neville Goddard Mindset

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There is a force operating in your life right now that is more
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powerful than any technique you have ever learned, any
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affirmation you have ever spoken, any meditation you have
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ever practiced. It is not a force outside of
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you. It is not a force you need to
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acquire, develop, or earn. It is a force you already
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possess. A force you have been using
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every moment of every day since the day you were born.
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And here is what will stagger you when you truly understand
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it. This force is not one of many
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forces. It is the only force.
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There is nothing else operating in your world.
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No luck, no fate, no external power dispensing rewards and
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punishments based on your behavior.
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No cosmic lottery determining who gets what.
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There is only this one force, and it is you.
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I tell you from my own experience, the moment I
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understood that I was not one of many powers at work in my world,
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but the only power, everything I had been taught about life,
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about God, about success, about failure, about circumstance
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collapsed. And from the rubble a truth
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emerged that was so simple, so total, so absolute that I spent
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the rest of my life teaching it to anyone who would listen.
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You are the operant power. Nothing in your world operates
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without you. Nothing.
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Tonight I am going to show show you exactly what this means, why
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it changes everything you have ever believed about yourself and
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your circumstances, and how to use this understanding to take
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conscious control of the creative force that has been
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running your life on autopilot. My name is Neville and for more
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than 4 decades I stood in lecture halls across New York
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and Lowe's Angels and taught a single principle, that
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consciousness is the only reality and that the assumptions
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held in consciousness determine every detail of the world you
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experience. Many people who hear my teaching
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treat it as one tool among many. They add it to their collection
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alongside gratitude journals and vision boards and positive
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thinking and meditation apps and the dozens of other techniques
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the self help industry has produced.
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They practice the Law of Assumption on Mondays and the
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Law of Attraction on Tuesdays and some form of prayer on
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Sundays. And they wonder why nothing
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seems to stick. The reason?
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Nothing sticks is that they have not understood the foundational
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truth. The law of assumption is not a
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technique. It is not a tool.
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It is not one method among many. It is the description of how
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reality works. There is no other mechanism.
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There is no alternative process running alongside it.
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There is no backup system that kicks in when assumption fails.
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You are the operant power. And until you understand what
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that means, not intellectually, not as an interesting idea you
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can discuss at dinner, but as the lived felt bone deep
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recognition that you and you alone are creating your entire
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world, you will continue to give your power away to forces that
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do not exist. In this teaching, I'm going to
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strip away every force you have ever believed was operating in
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your life besides your own consciousness.
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And when we are finished, you will stand where I stood when I
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first understood this truth. Naked of every excuse, free of
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every external explanation, and terrifyingly, beautifully,
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completely in charge. Let me begin with the forces you
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have been taught to believe in. You were taught that luck
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exists, that some people are born lucky and others are not.
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That there is a random element to life, A roll of dice, a spin
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of the wheel that determines who gets the promotion, who meets
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the right person, who is in the right place at the right time.
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And you have spent your life either hoping you would be lucky
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or resenting that you were not. I tell you, luck does not exist.
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What appears to be luck is the the visible result of an
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invisible assumption. The person who seems lucky is
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the person who assumes things work out for them.
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The person who seems unlucky is the person who assumes they are
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passed over, overlooked, forgotten by life.
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The dice are not random. The dice are loaded loaded by
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the assumptions of the person rolling them, and the person
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rolling them does not know they are the one who loaded them.
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You were taught that other people have power over you, that
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your boss determines your ink, that the economy determines your
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opportunity, that your parents determined yourself worth, that
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the government determines your freedom, that the market
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determines your financial future.
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You were taught that you exist within a web of forces,
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political, economic, social, familial, and that your job is
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to navigate these forces as skillfully as possible, hoping
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to catch a favorable current. I tell you, no force outside of
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your own consciousness has ever determined anything in your
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world. Your boss does not determine
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your income. Your boss is a character in your
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drama playing a role assigned to them by your assumption.
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The economy does not determine your opportunity.
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The economy is a projection of collective consciousness, and
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your personal experience of it is determined by your personal
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assumptions within it. Your parents did not determine
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yourself worth. Your parents were You pushed out
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reflections of the assumptions you carried about yourself and
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about authority and about love long before you had the language
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to describe those assumptions. You are imagination, and
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imagination creates reality. Not some of reality, not the
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pleasant parts of reality, not the parts you are paying
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attention to. All of it, every detail, every
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circumstance, every person, every event, everything that
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appears in your world appears because your consciousness, your
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assumptions, your beliefs, your felt states called it into
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being. The state you occupied the
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determines the world you see, and you are the only one who
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occupies your states. No one can occupy a state for
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you. No one can assume on your
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behalf. No one can feel the wish
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fulfilled in your body while you sleep.
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This is not a group project. This is not a team effort.
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This is the most solitary, the most individual, the most
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intimately personal act in all of existence.
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The act of assuming, of choosing a state, of occupying a felt
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reality and persisting in it. And until the three-dimensional
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world conforms, you are the operant power.
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You, not you and God, not you and the universe, not you and
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your spirit guides, not you and your therapist, not you and the
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alignment of the planets, you. I want to make this even more
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concrete because I can feel the intellectual mind trying to
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categorize this as an inspiring idea rather than an operational
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fact. Consider your morning.
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You wake up before your feet touch the floor.
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You have already begun creating the first thought that enters
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your awareness. I am tired.
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I have so much to do. I do not want to face this day.
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That thought is the operant power in action.
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It is not a neutral observation. It is a creative instruction,
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and the subconscious mind, which never sleeps, receives it and
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begins constructing a day that matches it, a day in which you
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encounter fatigue, overwhelm and resistance.
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Not because the day was designed that way by some external force,
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because you designed it in the first 30 seconds of
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consciousness before you brushed your teeth.
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Now imagine a different morning, the same body, the same bed, the
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same circumstances waiting outside the door, but a
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different first thought, a thought chosen rather than
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defaulted to. A thought like I am.
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The operant power and today unfolds according to my
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assumption. Feel the difference in the body
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when that thought enters consciousness.
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The chest opens slightly, the shoulders settle, the jaw
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relaxes. Something in you shifts from
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passenger to driver, from victim to creator, from someone the day
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happens to to someone who happens to the day.
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That shift, that subtle, internal, almost imperceptible
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shift is the difference between a life of conscious creation and
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a life of unconscious reaction. And it is available to you every
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single morning. Every single moment, in fact,
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because the operant power does not operate only at dawn.
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It operates continuously, ceaselessly, without
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interruption or exception. Every assumption you hold in
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every moment is the operant power creating in real time.
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Now, I have told you that luck does not exist, that other
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people have no power over you, and that you are the sole
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creative force in your world. And I can feel the resistance
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forming. I can feel the objection rising
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in the minds of those listening. The objection is this, if I am
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the only power, then I am responsible for everything, for
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the bad things as well as the good, for the losses as well as
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the gains, for the illness as well as the health, for the
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betrayal as well as the love. And I say to you, yes, that is
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exactly what I am telling you. This is the part of the teaching
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that the personality recoils from.
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This is the edge where most people turn back, because it is
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far more comfortable to believe that some things happen to you,
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that some events are caused by forces beyond your control, that
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some suffering is inflicted upon you by an indifferent universe,
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than to accept the full weight of what the operant power means.
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But I will not soften this truth for you, because softening it
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robs it of its power. If you are the operant power
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only for the good things, only for the successes and the
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blessings and the pleasant surprises, then you are not the
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operant power at all. You are a partial power, a
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limited power, a power that works sometimes and fails other
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times, and that is no different from the luck you were taught to
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believe in. The operant power means total
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creative responsibility. It means that every condition in
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your life, without exception, is the crystallization of an
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assumption you hold or once held.
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It means that the argument that ended your marriage was not
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caused by your partner's behavior.
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It was caused by the assumptions you carried about yourself and
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about marriage and about what you deserved.
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It means that the illness that appeared in your body was not
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random. It was the physical expression
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of a state of consciousness. Perhaps fear, perhaps guilt,
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perhaps the assumption that the body breaks down, that health is
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fragile, that disease runs in the family.
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I know this is hard to hear. I know it feels at first like an
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accusation, like blame. Like I am telling you that your
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suffering is your fault. I am not telling you it is your
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fault. I am telling you it is your
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creation. And there is a profound
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difference. Fault implies that you did
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something wrong, that you should have known better, that you are
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being punished for your ignorance.
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Creation implies that you are the creative power, that you
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built this world unconsciously and that you can rebuild it
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consciously. Fool traps you in guilt.
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Creation liberates you into agency.
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Consciousness is the only reality.
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And the moment you accept this, the moment you stop dividing
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your life into things you created and things that happened
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to you, you step into the full authority of the opera and
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power. And from that authority you can
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change anything because there is nothing in your world that is
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not made of your assumptions, and assumptions can be changed.
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I want to show you now what happens when someone truly
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grasps this principle, not as philosophy, not as a comforting
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idea, but as an operational fact that governs every moment of
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their waking life. A man came to me in New York.
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He was an accountant, 46 years old.
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He had been passed over for promotion three times at his
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firm. Each time the position went to
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someone he considered less qualified, less experienced,
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less dedicated than himself. He was bitter.
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He was exhausted. He had spent 15 years believing
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that if he worked hard enough, excellence would be rewarded,
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and three times the evidence had contradicted that belief.
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He asked me the question that many people in his situation ask
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Neville why does the world not reward merit?
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Why do the wrong people get ahead?
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And I said to him, the world does not reward merit.
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The world does not reward anything.
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The world reflects assumptions, and your assumption, the one you
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have been carrying for 15 years without examining it, is not I
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am excellent. It is I am overlooked.
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I am passed over. I am the person who does the
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work while others receive the credit.
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He resisted this at first. Of course he did.
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It is easier to believe the system is rigged than to accept
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that you are the one who rigged it.
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It is easier to blame the firm, the partners, the politics, the
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favoritism, than to look inward and find the assumption that has
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been producing the experience all along.
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But he heard me. Something in him recognize the
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truth of it. And that night he changed the
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assumption. He did not change his work
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habits. He did not send a memo to the
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partners out his qualifications. He did not network more
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aggressively or play office politics.
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He changed what he assumed about himself.
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He occupied a new state, the state of a man who is valued,
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recognized and promoted. Not as an affirmation, as a felt
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reality, as something he carried in his body when he walked
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through the office each morning. Within four months, the senior
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partner, who had passed him over three times, called him into his
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office and offered him a position that had not existed,
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listed before his conversation with me.
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A newly created role built, it seemed, specifically for his
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skills, as though the firm had looked at what he offered and
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said, we need to create a place for this.
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He told me later that the most unsettling part of the
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experience was how natural it felt.
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He expected fireworks. He expected a dramatic turning
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point, a conversation, a confrontation, a moment where
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everything visibly shifted. Instead, he said, it was as
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though the world had had always been this way, and he had simply
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been unable to see it before. The promotion felt inevitable.
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The role felt designed for him. The partners treated him as
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though he had always been this valuable, because in the new
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state he had always been this valuable.
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That is the bridge of incidents in service of the operant power.
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The subconscious does not produce miracles, it produces
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inevitabilities. It arranges the
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three-dimensional world so that the new assumption feels not
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like a sudden change, but like a long overdue recognition of what
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was always true. That is the operant power in
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action. He did not negotiate for the
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position. He did not campaign for it.
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He changed the assumption, and the world, the firm, the
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partners, the organizational structure itself, rearranged to
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match the new assumption. Because the world has no
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independent will. The world is a mirror, and the
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operant power, the one holding the mirror, the one whose face
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it reflects, is you. Man's imagination is the only
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redemptive power in the world, Not hard work, not merit, not
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fairness, imagination, the operant power.
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You persist in your assumption, and the world must rearrange
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itself to conform. Let me take you deeper now,
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because understanding that you are the operant power in
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practical matters, career, money, relationships, is
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valuable. But the full depth of this
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teaching reaches far beyond the practical.
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It reaches into the nature of reality itself.
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When I say you are the operant power, I am not speaking
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metaphorically. I am not saying you have
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influence over your world the way a strong personality has
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influence over a room. I am saying you are the creative
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consciousness, the I Am, that is the source of everything you
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experience. You are not a person living in a
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world. You are consciousness dreaming a
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world, and the dream conforms to the dreamer.
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This is the biblical teaching hidden beneath centuries of
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misinterpretation. When Scripture just says I am
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that I am. When the voice in the burning
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Bush declares its name, it is not Speaking of a God somewhere
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above you, separate from you, watching you from a distance.
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It is Speaking of you, the I am that you feel when you say I am
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not. I am this or I am that, but the
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pure, unconditioned awareness of being.
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That is the operant power, that is the creative force.
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That is God. What you desire, you already are
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in eternity. The version of reality in which
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you have, of everything you want, exists right now in
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consciousness. It is not somewhere in the
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future. It is not behind the wall of
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effort or merit or luck. It is here, in the IAM,
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available to anyone who will assume it with feeling and
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persist. The reason most people live
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lives of quiet frustration is not that they lack talent OR
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opportunity or the right connections.
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It is that they have given their power away.
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They have placed the operant power outside of themselves, in
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the economy, in A and other people, in God, understood as a
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separate being, in luck, in timing, in circumstances, and by
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doing so they have rendered themselves helpless.
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They have become puppets in a show.
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They believe someone else is directing.
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No one else is directing. There is no director.
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There is only the operant power, your consciousness and the world
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IT projects. Take back the power.
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Stop giving it the forces that do not exist.
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Stop waiting for permission from a universe that is not
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dispelled, expensing permissions.
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Stop looking for signs from a cosmos that is not sending them.
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The only sign you will ever need is the sign you give yourself,
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the felt assumption that your desire is fulfilled.
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I had a student who spent three years waiting for signs.
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Three years of seeing repeating numbers and interpreting them as
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messages from the universe. Three years of asking tarot
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cards whether her desire was on its way.
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Three years of checking horoscopes for confirmation that
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the timing was right. And in all that time, nothing
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changed. Not because the law was not
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working, but because she had placed the operant power outside
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of herself, in the numbers, in the cards, in the stars, and had
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reduced herself from creator to observer.
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From the one who determines to the one who waits to be told.
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When she stopped looking for signs and started being the
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sign, when she assumed the wish fulfilled without waiting for
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external confirmation, her world changed within weeks.
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Not because the stars aligned. Because she stopped waiting for
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the stars and became the force that aligned them.
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The most important conversation you will ever have is the one
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you hold with yourself. And the content of that
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conversation, the silent in a monologue about who you are,
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what you deserve, what is possible for you, is the operant
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power in action. Every word of it, every feeling,
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every assumption. Operating, creating, building
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your world. I want to guide you into the
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felt experience of the operant power.
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Now close your eyes, take a slow breath.
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Let the body settle. I want you to feel right now
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what it feels like to be the only power in your world.
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Not one of many, not a participant, not a player in a
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game designed by someone else. The only power.
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Feel the authority of it. Feel the weight and the freedom
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of it simultaneously. The weight of total
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responsibility and the freedom of total agency.
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There is nothing stopping you. There has never been anything
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stopping you. The obstacles you have
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encountered were assumptions you held crystallized into apparent
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barriers. The limitations you have endured
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were states you occupied projected outward as apparent
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walls. There are no walls.
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There are no barriers. There is only consciousness.
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Your consciousness and the assumptions it holds.
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Change the assumption and the wall dissolves.
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Not because you broke through it, because it was never real.
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It was a shadow cast by a state you no longer occupy.
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Feel the simplicity of it, The terrifying, beautiful
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simplicity. You do not need a technique.
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You do not need a teacher. You do not need a book or a
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course or a retreat. You need only one thing, The
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willingness to assume a new state and persist in it until
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the world conforms. Isn't it wonderful?
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You are the operant power. You have always been the operant
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power. And now you know.
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Rest in that knowing, let it settle into the body the way
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light settles into a room at dawn.
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Gradually, completely, until every corner is illuminated and
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no shadow remains. You may release the scene.
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Let me bring you back now to the practical.
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Because the operant power is not a concept to meditate on.
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It is a truth to live from, and living from it means making
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specific changes in the way you move through each day.
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I want to give you a practice, something you can begin to
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tonight and carry with you tomorrow and every day after.
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It is not a meditation, it is not a ritual.
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It is a way of being, a posture of consciousness, A fundamental
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reorientation of how you relate to the events and circumstances
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of your life. The practice is this.
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For one week, treat everything that happens to you as your
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creation. Not the things you like, not the
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things that seem connected to your recent assumptions.
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Everything. The traffic jam, the compliment
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from A stranger, the unexpected bill, the phone call you have
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been hoping for, the argument with your spouse, the parking
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spot that opened up just as you arrived.
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All of it. When something pleasant happens,
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do not attribute it to luck. Say to yourself, I created this.
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My assumptions produce this. The operant power is working.
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When something unpleasant happens, do not attribute it to
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bad luck, or to other people, or to the world being unfair.
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Say to yourself, I created this too.
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Some assumption I hold, perhaps one I am not even aware of yet,
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produced this experience, and because I created it, I can
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create something different. This practice is not about
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blame, it is not about guilt. It is about ownership.
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It is about stepping into the full authority of the creative
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consciousness you are and refusing, absolutely refusing,
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to give that authority away to anything or anyone outside of
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yourself. You will find if you do this
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sincerely for even 3 or 4 days, that your relationship to your
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own life changes fundamentally. You stop being a victim, you
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stop being a passenger, you stop waiting for things to happen to
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you, and you start recognizing that everything, every single
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thing is happening through you, from you, because of you.
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That recognition is the operant power awakened, and once it
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awakens, it does not go back to sleep.
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Starting tonight, I want you to notice every moment in which you
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give your power away, every moment in which you say aloud or
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silently that something outside of you is determining your
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experience. When you say the economy is bad,
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you are giving your power to the economy.
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When you say my boss does not appreciate me, you are giving
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your power to your boss. When you say I just have bad
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luck, you are giving your power to a fictional force that does
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not exist. When you say it is not the right
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time, you are giving your power to time itself, as though time
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were an authority and not a dimension in which your
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assumptions unfold. Catch these moments not with
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judgment, not with self criticism, with awareness, the
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awareness of someone who has recognized their own power and
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is now noticing all the places where they have been
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unconsciously surrendering it. And each time you catch it,
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reclaim it quietly, internally, without announcement.
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Simply redirect from the old assumption, the assumption that
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something outside of you is in charge, to the new one.
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I am the operant power. Nothing operates without me.
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My assumptions create my world. Do this for one week, just one
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week, and watch what shifts. Not because you are performing a
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technique, because you are recognizing a truth, and truth,
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once recognized, does not need to be forced.
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It simply operates the way gravity operates, the way the
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sun rises, the way the I am creates whatever it declares
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itself to be. Sleep as though the wish were
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fulfilled, wake as though it is already so, and walk through the
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day as the operant power have always been.
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Conscious now, deliberate now. Awake now to the authority that
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was never given to you because it was never taken away.
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You simply forgot you had it. Remember it now and use it.
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Remember the accountant, 46 years old, 15 years of hard
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work, 3 promotions denied. A lifetime of believing that the
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world owed him something because he had earned it and it was all
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an assumption. The world did not owe him.
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The world was reflecting him, and when he changed, changed
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what he was reflecting, when he stopped occupying the state of a
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man who is overlooked and started occupying the state of a
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man who is valued, the reflection changed with a speed
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that left him stunned. Not because something miraculous
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happened, because something natural happened, something that
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had been trying to happen for 15 years, held back only by the
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assumption that blocked it. That same shift is available to
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you right now, tonight, in whatever area of your life feels
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most stuck, most, most resistant, most immune to your
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efforts. The effort was never the
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problem. The assumption behind the effort
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was the problem. Change the assumption.
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Let the operant power, your power, the only power, do what
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it does. If this teaching has disturbed
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you, if something in you is unsettled, uncomfortable,
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resistant to what you have heard, then the teaching has
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done its work. The operant power is not a
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comfortable truth. It is a demanding one.
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It asks you to give up every excuse.
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Every explanation, every story you have ever told about why
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your life is the way it is, it asks you to stand naked before
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your own consciousness and accept that everything you see
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is everything you have assumed. But within that discomfort is
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the greatest freedom you will ever experience.
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Because if you created this world unconsciously, you can
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recreate it consciously. If your assumptions built the
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walls, your assumptions can dissolve them.
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If the operant power produced limitation, the operant power
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can produce abundance. There is no appeal to make, no
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application to submit, no line to stand in.
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There is only the assumption, the feeling, the persistence,
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and the world which has no choice conforming.
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If these teachings speak to something within you, you will
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find more of them here. Return when you are ready to go
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deeper. Each teaching builds on the
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last. Each layer reveals a truth more
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radical and more liberating than the one before.
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And I will be here for all of you are the operant power.
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You have always been the operant power.
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And now that you know, the only question remaining is what will
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you assume? Choose carefully, choose boldly
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choose with the authority of the creative consciousness you are.
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And persist, not because the law needs time, but because the old
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assumptions need to dissolve. And dissolution happens through
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the withdrawal of attention and feeling from the old state, and
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the steady investment of both into the new one.
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The world has. There's no choice but to follow.
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It never did. It was always following you.
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You simply did not know it. Now you know.