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You Almost Quit Right Before It Hardened Into Fact · Neville Goddard Mindset

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Why did you stop? I am asking you directly.
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You who are listening to me now. Why did you stop?
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You heard the law, You understood it.
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You took your desire. You held it in imagination.
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You felt it real, perhaps for one night, perhaps for several
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nights, perhaps even for a few glorious weeks.
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And then you stopped. You abandoned the very thing you
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claimed you wanted most. And now you sit here, months
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later, perhaps years later, still wanting it, still aching
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for it, still carrying the hollow weight of it in your
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chest. And you, you have convinced
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yourself that it did not work. But I ask you again, and I want
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you to feel the weight of this question settle into you like a
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stone dropped into Stillwater. Why did you stop?
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You did not fail. You quit.
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There is a vast and critical difference between the two.
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And until you understand that difference, deep in the marrow
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of your being, you will repeat this cycle for the rest of your
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life. You will hear a teaching.
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You will try it for a few days. You will look at your world and
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see no evidence of change, and you will walk away shaking your
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head, saying it was all fantasy, all wishful thinking, all
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nonsense spun by dreamers and fools.
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And then six months later, the egg returns.
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Because the desire never left you.
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It cannot leave you. It was planted in you by
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imagination itself, and imagination does not plant
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desires it cannot fulfill. Every hunger of the heart is a
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prophecy. Every longing is a promise, and
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when you abandoned your assumption, you did not destroy
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the promise, you simply delayed its fulfillment and you added
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another layer of suffering to a life that was never meant to
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suffer at all. I tell you from my own
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experience, every desire that has ever burned in your heart
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was placed there because it is already yours in the deeper
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reality. It exists now, complete,
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finished, actual, in the 4th dimension of your being.
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It is as real as the chair you are sitting in, more real,
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because the chair will one day decay and be forgotten.
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But the reality of your fulfillment filled desire exists
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in eternity. The only question, the only
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question that has ever mattered, is whether you will persist long
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enough for it to crystallize into this world of shadow and
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form. And most of you, I say this with
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love, but also with the firm authority of one who has
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witnessed it thousands of times across decades of teaching.
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Most of you will not persist, not because you cannot, not
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because the law does not work, not because you are unworthy or
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undeserving or somehow excluded from the operation of this
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principle, but because you have been trained by a world of
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appearances to trust only what your senses report.
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And your senses are always, without exception, reporting
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yesterday's assumptions. So tonight I am not going to
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give you a new technique. I am not going to introduce some
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clever method you have never heard, some secret shortcut that
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will bypass the work of persistence.
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I am going to tell you the truth about what happens in the gap,
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that sacred and terrifying space between the moment you assume
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the wish fulfilled and the moment it crystallizes in your
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outer world. Because it is in that gap that
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every dream is either born or buried.
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And you, my friend, have been burying yours.
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But not tonight. Tonight you stop burying.
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Tonight you begin again. Let me tell you what I promise
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you. If you stay with me through this
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hour, you will understand why doubt appears not as your enemy,
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but as the very friction that polishes your assumption into
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diamond hardness. You will understand the three
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distinct phases through which every assumption must pass
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before it hardens into fact. You will understand why the
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world seems to resist you most fiercely at the exact moment
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your assumption is closest to crystallizing.
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And you will leave here tonight with a practice, a simple daily
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practice, that will carry you through the gap without losing
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your footing. More than that, you will
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understand yourself. You will understand why you
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stopped, and you will understand why you never need to stop
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again. I am Neville, and I have taught
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this law for decades. Not from theory, not from books
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I read in some library, not from the speculations of philosophers
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or the systems of theologians, but from the living, breathing,
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tested experience of my own consciousness.
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I discovered, through my own trials and my own failures and
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my own stubborn, sometimes desperate persistence, that
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consciousness is the only reality.
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The only reality there is or ever was or ever will be.
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That the world you see around you, every person, every
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circumstance, every condition, every seemingly immovable
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obstacle, is nothing more than your own consciousness pushed
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out, hardened into form by the assumptions you have held long
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enough for them to take root. I did not come to this
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understanding easily. There were years when I assumed
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and saw nothing change. There were months when I doubted
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everything I had been taught by my teacher, Abdullah.
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There were dark nights when I lay in bed, holding the feeling
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of the wish fulfilled with every fiber of my being, and the next
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morning woke to find the same Baron in different worlds
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staring back at me as though I had done nothing at all.
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But I persisted. Not because I was stronger than
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you, not because I had some gift you lack, not because I was made
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of different clay, but because I understood something that most
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people never grasp, something that most people are never told.
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I understood that the delay between assumption and
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crystallization is not a sign that the law has failed.
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It is the law working. The delay is the process.
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The gap is the gestation, and the gestation is sacred.
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And so I say to you now, the most important thing you will
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ever learn about the law of assumption is not how to assume.
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That is simple. A child can do it.
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A child does it every day without instruction.
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The most important thing is how to persist in your assumption.
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When every fact in your world is screaming that it is not true.
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When every voice of reason and common sense tells you to give
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up. When the very people you love
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look at you with concern and say be realistic.
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That is where the teaching lives.
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That is where the power is. And that is what I will give you
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tonight. Now let me lay the foundation
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for everything that follows, because if you do not understand
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the nature of this gap, this interval between assuming and
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seeing, you will always be at the mercy of appearances, tossed
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about by every wind of circumstance, abandoning your
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assumptions at the first sign of contradiction.
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When you assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled, you are not
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engaging in fantasy. You are not pretending.
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You are not playing a game with your own mind to trick yourself
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into feeling better about a situation that has not changed.
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You are performing the most creative act available to a
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human being. You are occupying a state of
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consciousness, and the state state you occupy determines the
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world you see. Let me say that again, because
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your mind will try to slide past it as though it were merely a
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pleasant idea rather than the most radical truth ever uttered.
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The state you occupied determines the world you see,
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not the other way around, not ever the other way around.
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The world does not determine your state.
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Your state determines your world.
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This is the fundamental inversion, the great reversal
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that separates those who use the law successfully from those who
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abandoned it after a week. Most people live their entire
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lives in reaction. Something happens in their world
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and they respond. They feel good when
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circumstances are favorable. They feel bad when circumstances
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are unfavorable. They are thermometers, reading
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the temperature of the room and adjusting accordingly.
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But I am asking you to be a thermostat.
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I am asking you to set the temperature.
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I am asking you to determine the climate of your own experience
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by choosing your state of consciousness deliberately and
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then holding it, persisting in it, regardless of what the
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thermometer says. When you assume a new state,
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when you feel yourself to be the person who already has what you
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desire, you have in that moment, planted a seed in the soil of
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your own deeper consciousness. That seed is real, it is alive.
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It has its own intelligence, its own trajectory, its own
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appointed hour of emergence. But like every seed ever planted
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in the history of creation, it requires a period of darkness.
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It requires a period in which nothing visible is happening
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above the surface. The farmer who plants corn in
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April does not dig up the seed on the 5th day to check if it is
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growing. He does not stand over the soil
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with his hands on his hips, demanding that the stalk appear
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by Thursday. He trusts the process.
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He trusts the soil. He trusts the law of growth that
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governs all living things. He waters, he waits, and he
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knows. But you when you plant your
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assumption in consciousness, you dig it up every morning.
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You dig it up by opening your eyes and immediately scanning
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your world for evidence. Where is it?
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Why has nothing changed? Did I do it wrong?
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Was I not feeling it deeply enough?
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Should I try a different scene? Should I add more detail?
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Should I repeat the ACT more times?
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And every time you dig up that seed, every time you leave the
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state of the wish fulfilled and returned to the state of
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seeking, of checking, of waiting for proof, you interrupt the
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very process by which your assumption was becoming a living
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fact. I tell you, the gap between
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assumption and it's crystallization in your world is
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not empty. It is full.
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It is teeming with invisible activity.
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The bridge of incidents is being constructed.
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People you have never met are being moved into position.
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Circumstances you could not have planned are being arranged with
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a precision that would stagger you if you could see it.
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Those you did not know existed are being unlocked.
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Conversations you will not you have for weeks or months are
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being seeded in the minds of strangers.
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But all of this is happening beneath the surface, in the 4th
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dimension of reality, the dimension of imagination, the
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dimension of cause and your physical world.
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This three-dimensional stage of effect is always, always, always
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the last to know. So when you assume and then see
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no change, you are not seeing evidence that the law has
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failed. You are seeing the natural,
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inevitable delay inherent in the process by which cause becomes
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effect. You are seeing the time it takes
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for the unseen to become seen, for the imagined to become
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actual, for the spiritual to clothe itself in material form.
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And if you understood this truly, if you let it sink below
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the level of intellectual agreement and into the bedrock
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of your being, you would never again be troubled by the gap.
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You would rest in it. You would trust it.
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You would even welcome it as the evidence, the only evidence you
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need, that the process is working exactly as it it should.
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Now, before I go further into the depths of this teaching, I
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want you to consider something that may surprise you.
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Think about the last time you truly persisted in anything in
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your life. Perhaps it was learning to drive
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an automobile. Do you remember the first week
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behind the wheel? The awkwardness, the fear, the
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absolute certainty that you would never be able to do this
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complex thing that other people seem to do without thinking?
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And yet you persisted, day after day, and one morning you drove
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to work and realized you had not thought about driving at all.
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The skill had crystallized. It had passed from conscious
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effort to unconscious competence, not because you
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wished it into being, but because you persisted through
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the gap between not knowing and knowing, between awkwardness and
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mastery. Or perhaps it was a
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relationship. Perhaps there was someone in
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your life who did not immediately warm to you.
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And you persisted not with force, not with manipulation,
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but with the quiet, steady assumptions that the
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relationship would deepen. And it did, not on your
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timeline, not according to your plan, but it did.
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Because persistence in an assumption is the one force in
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this universe that the world cannot resist indefinitely.
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That is faith. That is persistence.
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And that is exactly what the law of assumption requires of you.
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Nothing more, nothing less. Simply persist, and the world
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must yield. Now let us turn to the heart of
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what I wish to share with you tonight.
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And it is this, the nature of doubt itself.
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What is doubt? Where does it come from, and why
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does it appear with such savage ferocity at the very moment you
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begin to assume a new state? Most people believe that doubt
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is a sign of failure. They believe that if they were
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truly living in the end, if they were truly occupying the state
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of the wish fulfilled with complete conviction, they would
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feel no doubt at all. They would be serene and
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confident and unshakable in their assumption from the very
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first moment, like a monk on a mountain untouched by the storms
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below. And when doubt appears, as it
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always does, as it must always do, they take it as proof that
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they are doing something wrong. That they have not assumed
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correctly, that there is some flaw in their technique, that
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the law is not working for them, that perhaps they are the one
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person in all of creation for whom this law does not apply.
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But I tell you, doubt is not a sign of failure.
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Doubt is a sign of transition. Doubt is the friction that
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arises when you attempt to move from one state of consciousness
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to another. It is the old state resisting
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its own death. It is the former assumption
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fighting to maintain its grip on your consciousness.
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And it is as natural and as inevitable as the pain a snake
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feels when shedding its skin. The snake does not conclude that
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something has gone wrong when the old skin tears and pulls.
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It does not rush to the doctor. It does not seek a new method of
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shedding. It simply endures the discomfort
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and emerges, glistening and new, you on the other side.
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Think of it this way. You have been occupying a
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certain state of consciousness for months, perhaps years.
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Perhaps your entire life. You have been the person who
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lacks this thing, who needs this thing, who wants this thing but
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does not have it. That state has become familiar
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to you. It has become comfortable, not
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because it is pleasant, for it is often deeply unpleasant, but
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because it is known. It is predictable.
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It is yours. And the mind, I tell you, will
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choose the familiar familiar over the pleasant every single
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time, unless you consciously, deliberately, persistently
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override it. When you assume a new state,
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when you begin to feel yourself as the person who already has
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what you desire, you are attempting to kill the old
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state. You are attempting to vacate a
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home you have lived in for years, to walk out the door and
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never return. And the old state does not want
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to die. No state wants to die.
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It screams. It protests.
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It sends doubt rushing through your mind like water through a
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broken dam. It whispers to you in the quiet
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moments before sleep, in the vulnerable hours of early
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morning, in the middle of the afternoon, when your defenses
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are low. It whispers, Who are you
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fooling? Look at your bank account.
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Look at your body. Look at your circumstances.
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Look at the cold, hard evidence spread out before you like a
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prosecutor's case. This is fantasy.
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You are deluding yourself. Go back to what you know.
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Go back to what is safe. Go back to what is.
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It's real. That voice is not your voice.
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I want you to hear me clearly on this point because it is one of
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the most important things I will ever tell you.
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That voice of doubt is not your voice.
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It is the voice of the state you are leaving.
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It is the death cry of an identity that is being replaced,
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and the louder it screams, the closer you are to leaving it
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behind. The intensity of the doubt is
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directly proportional to the proximity of the breakthrough.
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I had a student once, a woman named Margaret, who came to my
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lectures in New York. For several months.
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She had been assuming a new state for six weeks.
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She wanted to be married. She was 43 years old and had
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never been married, and she had begun to accept, somewhere deep
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in the marrow of her being, that she never would be.
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But she heard my teaching, and something in her awakened.
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She began assuming the feeling of being a wife.
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Every night she fell asleep feeling the ring on her finger,
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hearing the breathing of her husband beside her, feeling the
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way and warmth of another body in the bed.
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She did this faithfully for six weeks.
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And for six weeks nothing happened.
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No man appeared, no invitation to dinner, no chance encounter
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on the street. Nothing moved, nothing changed.
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The world was as silent and indifferent as stone.
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And then, in the 7th week, the doubt hit her like a physical
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blow. She told me she could barely get
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through her days. Every thought was poisoned with
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the conviction that she was fooling herself.
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She said she felt ridiculous, a 43 year old woman lying in bed
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pretending to be married. She said she was embarrassed to
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even continue the imaginal act. She wanted to quit.
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She was ready to quit. She had already half quit in her
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heart. I told her, Margaret, you are
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closer now than you have ever been.
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The doubt you feel is the death rattle of your old state.
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It is fighting for its life because it can feel itself being
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replaced by something stronger, something truer, something more
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alive. Do not negotiate with it.
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Do not argue with it. Do not try to convince it that
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you are right and it is wrong. Simply persist.
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Go to sleep tonight in exactly the way you have been going to
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sleep for six weeks. Change nothing, add nothing,
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subtract nothing. Simply persist.
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She persisted. 3 weeks later she met a man at a gathering she
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almost did not attend because the doubt had told her there was
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no point in going. Within four months she was
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married. The very force that almost made
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her quit, the doubt that seemed so overwhelming, so rational, so
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final, was the signal that her assumption was crystallizing.
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But she could not see that. She could not know that, because
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the crystallization of assumption happens beneath the
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surface, invisible to the senses, and the doubt that
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arises is simply the turbulence created by two states of
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consciousness colliding, the old state and the new, fighting for
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dominion over her experience. You must understand this with
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your whole being. Doubt is not evidence that the
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law is not working. Doubt is evidence that the law
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is working so powerfully that your old state can feel itself
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being displaced. And what you do with that doubt,
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how you respond to it in the critical moment of its arrival,
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determines everything. It determines whether you become
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Margaret the wife or Margaret the woman who almost was.
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Here is what you must not do. You must not fight the doubt.
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You must not try to push it away with force, or argue with it
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using logic, or replace it with cheerful affirmations and forced
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optimism. That is not what I teach.
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I've never taught that, and I never will.
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I do not teach you to think pleasant thoughts until reality
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cooperates. I teach you to assume
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differently. There is a world of difference
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between the two, and confusing them has LED more people astray
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than almost any other error in this work.
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Forced optimism is the conscious mind trying to override reality
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with willpower. It is exhausting, It is is
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brittle, it breaks at the first challenge.
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Assumption is something else entirely.
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Assumption is consciousness occupying a new state, settling
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into it, resting in it, becoming it, until that state is the only
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reality the deeper mind knows. So when doubt comes, and it will
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come, let it pass through you like wind through an open
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window. Do not close the window, do not
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board it up, do not try to build a wall against the wind.
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Let it blow, feel it, acknowledge it, and then when it
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has passed and it always passes, return to your assumption,
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return to the feeling of the wish fulfilled.
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Return to the state you have chosen to occupy.
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That is persistence, not the absence of doubt, never the
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absence of doubt, but the decision made again and again
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and again to return to your assumption after doubt has
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visited you and found you unshakable.
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Now I want to pause here and tell you something that will
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sharpen everything I have said so far, something that connects
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the nature. Of doubt, to the deeper
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mechanics of how assumption becomes fact.
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Because what I am about to share will change the way you
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understand the entire process. Every assumption you hold in
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consciousness passes through three distinct phases before it
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crystallizes in your world. I call these phases planting,
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germination, and harvest. And each phase has its own
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character, its own challenges, its own particular form of
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doubt, and its own particular temptation to quit.
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The first phase is planting. This is the moment you first
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assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled.
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This is the night you first lie down in your bed, close your
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eyes, enter the state akin to sleep, and feel yourself to be
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the person you intend to become. You feel the ring on your
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finger. You feel the letter of
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acceptance in your hands. You feel the handshake of the
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business partner. You hear the words of
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congratulation. You smell the air of the new
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city. You feel the warmth of the home
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you desire in this phase everything feels exciting and
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electric. Everything feels possible.
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You are thrilled by the discovery or the rediscovery of
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this magnificent law. You feel the power of your own
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imagination for the first time in perhaps years and it
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intoxicates you. You think, why did I ever doubt
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this? Why did I ever stop believing?
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This is the most natural, the most obvious, the most
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self-evident truth I have ever encountered.
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There is very little doubt in this phase because the novelty
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and the vividness of the experience carry you forward on
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their own momentum. But the planting phase is also
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the most dangerous phase because it is here that most people make
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a critical and usually fatal error.
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They plant the seed and then they immediately begin watching
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for the harvest. They assume tonight and tomorrow
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morning. They look out the window for
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results. They assume for three nights
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running and by the 4th day they are scanning their world with
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the desperate, hungry eyes of someone looking for proof, for
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confirmation, for any scrap of evidence that the law is
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working. They look at their phone
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expecting the call. They check their e-mail
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expecting the offer. They watch the faces of
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strangers for some sign, some signal, some acknowledgement
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that reality has begun to shift. And that very act of looking for
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proof is the act of leaving the state of the wish fulfilled.
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The moment you begin to search for evidence, you have exited
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the state of having and returned to the state of wanting.
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You have moved, moved from the consciousness of fulfillment to
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the consciousness of lack. You have in that moment dug up
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the seed, and the seed, disturbed before it could send
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down even the most fragile route, is destroyed not by the
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law, not by some cosmic punishment, but by your own
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impatience. The second phase is germination,
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and this is where the real test of your persistence begins.
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In this phase you have been assuming for days, perhaps
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weeks. The initial excitement has faded
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like the flush of new love. The novelty is gone.
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The practice has become routine, and routine for most people is
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the grave of inspiration. You are left with the quiet,
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unglamorous, repetitive work of simply persisting.
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Night after night you return to the same imaginal act, the same
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scene, the same feeling. Morning after morning you wake
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to the same unchanged world, the same job, the same apartment,
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the same bank balance, the same face in the mirror.
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And it is in this phase that doubt arise, drives in its most
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powerful and most seductive form during germination.
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The doubt does not come as a dramatic crisis.
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It does not announce itself with trumpets and Thunder.
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It comes as a quiet, reasonable question, spoken in the calm
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voice of common sense. Is this really working?
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Maybe I should try a different approach.
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Maybe I need a different technique.
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Maybe the scene I chose is wrong.
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Maybe I should read another book, listen to another teacher,
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find another method, attend another lecture.
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Maybe the problem is not persistence, but technique.
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Maybe if I just found the right way to do this, it would work
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faster. The doubt in this phase
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disguises itself as wisdom. It disguises itself as
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discernment. It disguises itself as the voice
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of mature, responsible thinking. It tells you that you are being
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intelligent by questioning, that you are being rational by
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doubting that only a fool, only a naive and credulous fool,
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would continue to assume something that shows no visible
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sign of becoming true after all these weeks.
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But I tell you, the doubt of the germination phase is the most
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dangerous doubt of all, precisely because it sounds so
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reasonable. It does not feel like fear.
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It feels like common sense. And common sense, I assure you,
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is the sworn enemy of imagination.
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Common sense is nothing more than the collective agreement of
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those who have never dared to assume beyond what their senses
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report. Common sense is the voice of the
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old state, wearing the respectable clothing of reason
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and rationality during germination.
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The bridge of incidents is being built.
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The unseen forces of your deeper consciousness are arranging the
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circumstances through which your assumption will enter your
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world. People are being moved,
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opportunities are being shaped, connections are being forged in
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rooms you have never entered, in conversations you have never
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heard between people whose names you do not yet know.
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But you cannot see the bridge being built because it is being
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constructed from the other end. You will only see it when you
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arrive at it, when the circumstances suddenly appear in
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your world and you think, how remarkable, how unexpected, how
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perfectly this has all come together.
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And until that moment you must walk in faith.
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Not faith in some distant deity, not faith in some impersonal
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cosmic force, but faith in the law of your own consciousness,
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faith that what you have assumed in the feeling of the wish
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fulfilled must, by the very nature of consciousness itself,
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become fact. The third phase is harvest.
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And here is where the teaching becomes most surprising, most
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counterintuitive, and most important for those of you who
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are on the verge of quitting. Most people expect the harvest
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to arrive quietly and gently, like a package delivered to
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their doorstep by a smiling postman.
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They expect the world to simply rearrange itself politely,
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without disruption, without inconvenience, without
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disturbing any of the comfortable structures of their
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current life. But I tell you, the harvest
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often arrives through what appears to be crisis.
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The bridge of incidents does not always look like a smooth,
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pleasant Rd. lined with flowers. Sometimes it looks like a
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disruption. Sometimes it looks like a loss.
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Sometimes it looks like the collapse of something you
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thought you needed. Sometimes it looks like the very
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opposite of what you assumed. And in that moment, if you do
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not understand the mechanics of the harvest, you, you will
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panic, You will conclude that the law has betrayed you, and
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you will abandoned your assumption at the very moment it
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is crystallizing into form. I had another student, a man
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named Thomas, who assumed A promotion at his company.
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He was a diligent, capable man who had been overlooked for
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years, and he began to assume the state of the promoted man,
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the man with the corner office, the man with the larger salary,
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the man whose work was recognized and valued.
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He persisted in this assumption for two full months and then
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instead of receiving a promotion, he was let go from
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his position entirely. His department was restructured
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and his name was on the list. He came to me devastated and I
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could see the accusation in his eyes even before he spoke it.
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Neville, the law has failed me. I assume the promotion and
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instead I lost everything. I have been faithful, I have
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persisted and the world has punished me for it.
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I told him. Thomas, do not judge the bridge
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of evidence by its appearance. You did not assume a specific
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promotion at a specific company. You assumed a state, the state
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of a man whose work is recognized, whose talents are
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rewarded, whose life is prosperous and expanding.
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The law has heard you. The law is rearranging your
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world to fulfill that assumption.
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But the world you are leaving may need to be dismantled before
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the world you have assumed can be built.
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Trust the process. Do not interpret.
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Do not judge, Simply persist. Within six weeks, Thomas was
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offered a position at a different company, a position
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far superior to anything he had been seeking through promotion
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at his Old Firm. The salary was nearly double.
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The work was more aligned with his deepest gifts.
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The location was in the very city he had secretly longed to
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move to for years, but had never dared to request.
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His assumption had crystallized perfectly, but the bridge of
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incidents had required the destruction of his old position
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to carry him to the new one. What he experienced as
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catastrophe was in fact the mechanism of his fulfillment.
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This is why you must not judge the process by appearances.
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The bridge of incidents is often invisible until you have crossed
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it, and what looks like failure in the middle of the journey is
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often the very means by which your assumption is being
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fulfilled. Dare to assume the feeling of
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the wish fulfilled, and then dare to trust the process by
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which it becomes fact, even when, especially when the
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process looks nothing like what you expected.
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Now, before I share with you the practical methods by which you
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can persist through these three phases, I want to pause here and
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acknowledge what may be stirring in you right now.
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You may be thinking, Neville, I have heard all of this before.
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I know about persistence. I know about the bridge of
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incidents. I know about doubt.
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I have read your books. I have listened to your
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lectures. I have memorized your phrases.
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And yet I still struggle. I still quit.
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I still abandoned my assumptions when the gaps stretches out
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before me like a desert. What is wrong with me?
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Why can I not do what others seem to do so easily?
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Nothing is wrong with you. You are not broken.
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You are not weak. You are not constitutionally
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incapable of persistence. You are simply untrained.
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You have spent your entire life, every single day of it, being
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trained by a world that teaches you to trust appearances above
30:47
all else. You have been trained to believe
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only what you can see and touch and measure and prove.
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You have been trained to demand evidence before belief, to
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require proof before commitment, to insist on results before
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investment, and now I am asking you to reverse that entire
31:04
training in a single stroke. I am asking you to believe
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before you see, to assume before you experience, to feel before
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you have to know before you are shown.
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That is not easy. It is not supposed to be easy.
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It is the great work of consciousness, the labor of a
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lifetime compressed into the simple but demanding act of of
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assumption and persistence. But it is simple, and
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simplicity, when practiced with persistence, is the most
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powerful force in the world. Not complexity, not cleverness,
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not technique. Simplicity and persistence.
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Those two together can move mountains and drain oceans and
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reshape the very fabric of your world.
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So let me give you now the practical tools, the daily
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disciplines by which you can persist through the gap between
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assumption and crystallization. These are not theories.
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These are practices. They require nothing from you
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but your willingness to do them night after night, day after
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day, until the world yields. The first practice is what I
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call the nightly return. Every night, without exception,
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without negotiation, without taking a night off because you
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are tired or discouraged or simply not in the mood, you must
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return to your imaginal act. You must enter the state akin to
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sleep, that drowsy, receptive borderland state in which the
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conscious mind relaxes its grip and the deeper consciousness is
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laid bare and impressionable. And in that state you must feel
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the wish fulfilled. Not think about it from the
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outside, not visualize it as a movie playing on a screen in
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front of you with you watching from your seat, but feel it from
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within, as though you are inside the experience, as though it is
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happening to you as you right now, in this very moment.
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Sleep as though the wish were fulfilled.
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Wake as though it is already so. This is not a suggestion.
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This is not one method among many that you might try.
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This is the law. The feeling with which you fall
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asleep is the instruction you give to your deeper
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consciousness. It is the seed you plant in the
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most fertile soil in all of creation, the soil of the
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subconscious mind in its most receptive state.
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And whatever you plant in that soil must, by the law of your
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own being, grow into form. So if you fall asleep in the
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feeling of the wish fulfilled, you have planted the seed of its
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crystallization. But if you fall asleep in the
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feeling of doubt, in the feeling of worry, in the feeling of
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lack, in the feeling of I hope this works, you have planted the
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seed of continued deprivation. And the soil does not judge, it
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does not choose, it does not edit.
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It simply grows whatever is planted in it with absolute
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fidelity. So every night, no matter what
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happened during the day, no matter how loud the doubt was,
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no matter how discouraging the evidence appeared, no matter how
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many people told you to be realistic, you return to the
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feeling of the wish fulfilled. You do not argue with the day,
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you do not try to resolve the contradictions between your
34:03
assumption and your experience. You simply return to the feeling
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as faithfully and as naturally as a river returns to the sea.
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That is persistence. That is the nightly return, and
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it is the single most important habit you will ever develop.
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The second practice is what I call the daily dismissal.
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During the day, when doubt arises, and it will arise,
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sometimes gently and sometimes with the force of a breaking
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wave, you must develop the habit of dismissing it without
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engaging it. Most people, when doubt appears,
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immediately enter into a long, exhausting conversation with it.
34:40
They argue with it. They try to refute it with
34:43
logic, they try to overpower it with affirmations, they try to
34:47
reason their way out of it. But every moment you spend
34:50
engaged with doubt is a moment you spend occupying the state of
34:53
doubt, and the state you occupy determines the world you see.
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So when doubt arises, you say to yourself, simply and without
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drama, without clenching your fists or gritting your teeth,
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That is not my state. I do not live there anymore.
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I have moved. And then you gently, quietly,
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without force or strain, return your attention to the feeling of
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the wish fulfilled. You do not need to feel it as
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powerfully as you do in the state akin to sleep.
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You simply need to touch the feeling lightly, briefly, like
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touching a Talisman in your pocket, and then go about your
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day. The light touch is enough.
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The brief remembrance is enough. The momentary return to the
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feeling, even for three seconds, is enough to keep the seed alive
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and growing in the soil of your consciousness. 3rd practice is
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revision, and this is one of the most powerful tools I have ever
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taught. Every evening before you begin
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your nightly return, take a few minutes to revise any event of
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the day that contradicted your assumption.
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If someone said something that implied your desire was
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impossible, revise that conversation.
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Hear them saying something that confirms your assumption.
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If you received a piece of news that seemed to deny your desire,
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revise it. See yourself receiving news that
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supports. If you felt a surge of doubt
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during the day that seemed to overwhelm you, revise that
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moment. See yourself feeling confident,
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serene, certain, unmoved. Revision is not denial.
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Revision is not pretending that unpleasant things did not
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happen. Revision is the conscious
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reshaping of your experience in accordance with the state you
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have chosen to occupy. It is the act of refusing to
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accept any experience as final, as permanent, as definitive,
36:40
that contradicts. It's the state of consciousness
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you are building, and it is one of the most powerful forms of
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persistence available to you because it takes the very events
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that would weaken your assumption and transforms them
36:52
into fuel for its crystallization.
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It turns the enemy's weapons into your own armor.
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The 4th practice is the most important of all, and it is the
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one that most people neglect entirely because it seems to
37:06
contradict everything else I have said.
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It is the practice of resting. Yes, resting, letting go, being
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still. Most people, when they first
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learn the law, become frantic with effort.
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They assume morning, noon, and night.
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They repeat their imaginal act dozens of times a day.
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They clench their minds around their desire like a fist around
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a stone, squeezing tighter and tighter, afraid that if they
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relax their grip for even a moment, the desire will escape.
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And that very clenching, that very desperation, that very
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feverish effort, is the feeling of wanting, the feeling of lack,
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the feeling of not having. And that feeling is the precise
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opposite of the feeling of the wish fulfilled.
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The feeling of the wish fulfilled is relaxed, it is
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calm, it is settled, it is the feeling of having.
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And having is the most relaxed state in all of human
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experience. Think about something you
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already have, something you take so completely for granted that
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you never give it a second thought.
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Your name, for instance. You do not walk around all day
38:09
affirming your name. You do not lie in bed at night
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desperately hoping that your name will still be your name
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tomorrow. You do not clench your fists and
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repeat your name 1000 times to make it more real.
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You simply know it. You rest in it.
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It is settled, it is done, it is yours.
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It has always been yours. That is the feeling you must
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cultivate toward your desire. Not the frantic desperation of
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wanting, but the settled, peaceful assurance of having.
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And that assurance comes not from evidence, not from proof,
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not from the confirmation of your senses, but from the
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decision, the sovereign, irreversible decision to occupy
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the state of the wish fulfilled and to refuse to be moved from
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it, no matter what the world presents to your senses.
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Now, I want to guide you into an experience.
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Right now, as you listen to my voice, I want you to close your
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eyes, if you can do so safely. Take a breath.
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Let your shoulders drop. Let the tension in your jaw
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release. And I want you to think of the
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desire you abandoned. The one that still lives in you.
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The 1 you gave up on. The 1 you told yourself was
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impossible or foolish or too much to ask for.
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The one you buried but could not kill because it was planted in
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you by imagination itself. And imagination does not take
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back its gifts. Think of it now.
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Do not think of it as something you want.
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Do not think of it as something you lack.
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Do not think of it as something out there in the future, waiting
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to maybe, possibly arrive if you are lucky enough or good enough,
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or persistent enough. Think of it as something you
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already have, something that is already yours.
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Something that is already done, finished, completed, settled,
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real. Where would you be right now if
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this desire were already fulfilled?
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What room would you be sitting in?
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What would you see when you look out the window?
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Who would be with you? What would you hear?
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What would you feel beneath your hands?
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What would the air smell like? What would be the expression on
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your face? Not the forced, hopeful smile of
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someone wishing, but the natural, easy, effortless
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expression of someone who has received what they knew deep in
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their bones was always coming. Go there.
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Now step into that scene as you would step into a warm room on a
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cold night. Feel your feet on the floor of
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that place. Feel the texture.
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Of what you are touching. Hear the sounds that belong to
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that fulfilled reality. Hear the voice of someone you
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love, someone who matters to you, speaking to you,
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congratulating you, celebrating with you, confirming what you
40:40
already know to be true. Feel the warmth in your chest.
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Feel the settled calm in your belly.
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Feel the rightness of it, the completeness of it, The way
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everything in your world makes sense because this one thing is
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finally, at last, irrevocably true.
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Stay there. Breathe in that feeling, Let it
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fill your body, let it reach into every corner of your being.
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This is not fantasy. This is not wishful thinking.
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This is the reality of the 4th dimension.
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This is the reality of imagination.
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This is the reality of cause. And what is real in imagination
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must, by the law of your own consciousness, become real in
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the world of form and flesh and time.
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Now, as you hold that feeling, say to yourself silently in the
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sanctuary of your own mind, where no one can hear and no one
41:28
can judge. I will not stop.
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I will not abandon this. I am the one who persists.
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I am the one who does not quit. I am the one who sleeps in the
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feeling of the wish fulfilled and wakes knowing it is already
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so. I am the one whose assumptions
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crystallize. That is who I am.
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That is what I do. That is the law of my being.
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Let those words settle into you like seeds falling into rich
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soil. And when you open your eyes,
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carry that feeling with you, not as a burden, not as a the task,
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not as something you must maintain through effort and
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strain, but as a quiet certainty, like the certainty of
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your own name. It is done, It is settled.
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You are simply waiting for the world to report what
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consciousness already knows. You are imagination, and
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imagination creates reality. Now I know that some of you
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listening tonight have a question that has been building
42:19
in you throughout this talk, and it is this.
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Neville, What if I have been persisting for months, genuinely
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persisting, doing the nightly return and the daily dismissal
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and the revision and the resting, and still my world
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looks exactly as it did when I started?
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What if nothing, absolutely nothing, has changed?
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What then? Am I doing something wrong?
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Is there something I am missing? This is the question that
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separates the student from the master and I will answer it with
42:48
the complete honesty you deserve.
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First, you must examine the quality of your assumption.
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Are you truly occupying the state of the wish fulfilled, or
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are you occupying the state of someone who is trying very hard
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to occupy the state of the wish fulfilled?
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These are not the same thing, and the difference between them
43:07
is the difference between planting a seed and holding a
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picture of a seed. If you lie in bed at night and
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your inner monologue is I am now going to do my imaginal act.
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I hope it works this time. I really need this to happen.
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Please let this be the night it clicks.
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You are are not in the state of the wish fulfilled.
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You are in the state of hoping. You are in the state of trying.
43:29
You are in the state of performing a technique, and the
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law will faithfully produce the outer equivalent of that state,
43:35
which is more hoping, more trying, more performing, and no
43:39
result. The most important conversation
43:42
you will ever have is the one you hold with yourself.
43:45
And if that in a conversation is saturated with the tone of
43:48
wanting, the law will faithfully give you more wanting.
43:52
But if that conversation is saturated with the quiet,
43:55
unforced certainty of having, the law will give you the
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having. So examine yourself.
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Be honest with yourself. Are you assuming, or are you
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performing? Second, you must examine whether
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you are maintaining your assumption throughout the day or
44:09
abandoning it the moment you open your eyes each morning.
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The nightly return is essential. It is the foundation of
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everything. But it is not sufficient if you
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spend your entire waking day contradicting your assumption
44:22
with every thought, every word, every conversation, every
44:26
reaction. If you assume health at night
44:28
and spend your days discussing your symptoms, you are planting
44:32
the seed at night and digging it up every morning.
44:35
If you assume wealth at night and spend your days tallying
44:38
your debts and complaining about prices, you are sowing and
44:41
uprooting in an endless, futile cycle.
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The assumption must become your dwelling place, your permanent
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address, not a vacation home you visit for 10 minutes before
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sleep. 3rd, and this is the most subtle and most important point
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of all, you must examine whether you have truly released the how
44:59
many people assume the end result beautifully, vividly,
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convincingly, but then immediately begin trying to
45:06
figure out how it will happen. They scheme, they plan, they
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strategize, they try to identify the bridge of incidents before
45:14
it appears. They try to construct the bridge
45:16
themselves with their conscious minds.
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And that very effort to control the mechanism of fulfillment.
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Fulfillment is the spirit of doubt disguised as productive
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action. When you try to figure out how
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your assumption will crystallize, you are telling
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your deeper consciousness that you do not trust it.
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You are saying I believe in the end, but I do not believe you
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can find the way there. So let me help.
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And your deeper consciousness responds to that distrust by
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withholding the very bridge of incidents you are trying so
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desperately to build with your own hands.
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Man's imagination is the only redemptive power in the world.
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Trust it. It is infinitely more
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intelligent than your conscious mind.
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It sees paths you cannot see. It knows people you have not
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met. It has access to possibilities
46:04
you have not imagined. Your job, your only job, is to
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assume the end and persist in that assumption.
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The way, the bridge, the how, the when, the through whom?
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That is the business of imagination itself.
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Release it, let it go, and persist in the end in the
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feeling of the fulfilled desire, and let imagination do what only
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imagination can do. Now let me bring this full
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circle, because I opened tonight with a question.
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And a teaching that does not return to its beginning is a
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teaching that has lost its way. I asked you, why did you stop?
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And now, having walked with me through this hour, having
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understood the nature of the gap, the mechanics of doubt, the
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three phases of crystallization, the daily practices of
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persistence, I want you to ask yourself that question.
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One final time, not as an accusation, not with guilt or
46:55
shame or regret, but with genuine curiosity and with the
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deep hard won knowledge you now possess.
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You stopped because you did not understand the gap.
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You stopped because you believe the delay between assuming and
47:08
seeing meant failure, when in truth it meant gestation.
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You stopped because doubt arrived and you mistook it for
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the voice of truth, when in truth it was the death cry of
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your old state. You stopped because the
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germination phase felt like nothing.
47:22
Nothing was happening, and you could not see the bridge of
47:24
incidents being built from the other side of your desire.
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You stopped because no one told you, or perhaps no one told you
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convincingly enough, that the very moment you most wanted to
47:35
quit was the moment your assumption was closest to
47:38
crystallizing into fact. But now you know, and knowing,
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truly knowing, changes everything.
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Not because knowledge alone is power.
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That is only a half truth, and half truths are the most
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dangerous lies of all. Knowledge is potential power.
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It is a loaded weapon lying on a table.
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It can save your life or gather dust, depending entirely on
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whether you pick it up and use it.
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Applied knowledge, knowledge that you act upon, knowledge
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that you take into the state akin to sleep with you tonight,
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Knowledge that you carry into tomorrow and the day after and
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the week after and the month after.
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That is actual power. That is the power that reshapes
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worlds. And the knowledge I have given
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you tonight is useless. Completely and utterly useless
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unless you apply it. Unless you take it into your bed
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with you tonight. Unless you return to the desire
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you abandoned. Unless you reassume the feeling
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of the wish fulfilled. Unless you persist.
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Unless you persist when it is exciting and when it is boring.
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Unless you persist. When the doubt is quiet and when
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the doubt is screaming. Unless you persist.
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When the world confirms your assumption, and when the world
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contradicts it with every fact at its disposal, persist in your
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assumption, and the world must rearrange itself to conform.
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That is not a hope. That is not a suggestion.
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That is not a theory waiting to be tested.
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That is the law. The world has no choice, none
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whatsoever, but to conform to the assumption you hold with
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unwavering persistence. Because the world is nothing
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more than your own consciousness solidified, your own assumptions
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crystallized, your own imagination made flesh.
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Change your consciousness and the world must change.
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Hold that changed consciousness. Persist in in it, sleep in it,
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wake in it, live in it, and the world will rearrange every atom
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of its being to reflect what you have dared to assume.
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What you desire, you already are in eternity.
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The only distance between you and your fulfilled desire is the
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persistence required to make the eternal truth a temporal fact.
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And that persistence is not a punishment.
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It is not a test. It is not a burden placed upon
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you by a cruel or indifferent universe.
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It is a privilege. It is the sacred, joyful,
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creative work of consciousness becoming aware of its own power
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of imagination, clothing itself in the garments of time and
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space of the dream, awakening inside the dream to discover
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that the dream was always, from the very beginning, his own
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creation. So I leave you tonight with
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this. Go back.
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Go back to the thing you abandoned.
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Go back to the desire you buried in the graveyard of failed
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attempts. Go back to the feeling you
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stopped feeling because you were afraid it would never become
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real. Because.
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Because the world told you it was foolish.
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Because the doubt convinced you that you were not the kind of
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person for whom these things happen.
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And feel it again tonight. Feel it as you fall asleep, and
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tomorrow night feel it again, and the night after that, and
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the night after that. And when doubt comes, and it
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will come as surely as the wind comes to a hilltop, let it pass
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through you, let it blow. And then return calmly, quietly,
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without drama, without fanfare, without negotiation, to your
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assumption, not once, not twice, but as many times as necessary,
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for as long as necessary, until the world bows to the truth that
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you have dared to assume. I do not ask you to share this
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teaching with anyone. I do not ask you to tell others
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what you have heard tonight. I do not ask you to go out and
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convince anyone else that this law is true.
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That is not your work. Your work is singular, personal,
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intimate. I ask only that you apply it,
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test it, prove it in the laboratory of your own life,
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which is the only laboratory that matters.
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Take one desire, one single desire that matters to you
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deeply, that has been waiting for you patiently all the time
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you were busy doubting, and give it the persistence it deserves.
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Give it 30 days of faithful assumption.
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Give it 30 nights of sleeping in the feeling of the wish
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fulfilled. Do not evaluate it on the 15th
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day. Do not check the score at half
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time. Simply persist, and at the end
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of those 30 days, observe what has happened in your world.
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Observe the people who have appeared.
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Observe the circumstances that have shifted.
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Observe the doors that have opened.
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Observe the bridge of incidents that has carried you step by
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step toward the fulfillment of what you dared to assume.
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Not because I need the confirmation.
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I do not. I know this law as intimately as
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I know my own heartbeat. I have tested it and proved it
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in my own life more times than I can count, and I have watched it
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operate in the lives of thousands who have sat at where
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you are sitting now, who have felt what you are feeling now,
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who have doubted as fiercely as you have doubted.
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But you need the confirmation. You need to discover, through
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the undeniable evidence of your own experience, that
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consciousness is the only reality, that imagination
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creates reality, and that persistence in the assumption of
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the wish fulfilled is the only power that has ever changed
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anything in this world or any other.
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Go now. Return to your desire.
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Return to the feeling. Return to the state you
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abandoned when the gap seemed too wide and the doubt seemed
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too loud and the world seemed too stubborn.
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And this time, my friend, do not stop.
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This time persist. This time, sleep as though the
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wish were fulfilled, and wake as though it is already so.
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And watch with wonder, with gratitude, with the quiet tears
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of someone who has finally come home, as the world rearranges
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itself to conform to the truth you have dared to assume.
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I am Neville, and I tell you, the only thing that ever stood
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between you and the life your heart desires was your
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willingness to persist. Not your talent, not your
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education, not your worthiness, not the approval of any external
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authority, not the permission of any other human being.
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Only your persistence, only your refusal to quit, Only your
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decision to return again and again and again to the feeling
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of the wish fulfilled. And now that you know this, now
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that you understand the gap and the doubt and the three phases
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and the daily practice, practice, you have no reason to
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stop, not ever again. So do not stop.
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Persist. And the world, which has no
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choice, which has never had a choice, will say yes.