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If imagination is reality...then who am I fighting with to give me my desire? If imagination is reality...then who can I go to for my desires to be fulfilled? If imagination is reality...then I don't have to wrestle with anyone to be a fulfilled being.

Neville's right when he spoke on imagination being reality. That must include the fulfilled self because everything was once imagined. So we don't have to necessarily question our desires or control things. We leave them alone and have trust in what we are imagining.

To have trust in one's imaginal acts means to surrender. That you don't have the answers as to how this must come to express. You eventually have to let go in conditioning your desires and go to full trust in its acceptance of being fulfilled.

Most of the times the issue isn't the thing we desire. It's actually our lack of faith in what we are imagining. Because if imagination is the only reality then we don't necessarily have to do anything. We don't have to condition how it will happen or how all this stuff "works".

Christ says to believe you have received it and it will be yours. That is the imagination speaking to the "sense man". How it is not our job to condition what we desire, but to accept as being the one who has it. We do that by having full trust and faith in it already being so.

So when you go to imagining yourself having the thing that you want, realize that it has to come into this world because it has already happened in the imagination. Let go of controlling things, people, circumstances and go fully in trusting what you've done inside. Then drop it entirely.

And before you know it, as you've placed your full trust and faith onto your imaginal father which is ultimately you, the inner-self, you will come to see your harvest. Then you will walk with full knowing that this whole world was made for you.

We want to be faithful to what we've done inside and walk with the knowing that it is the reality now. This requires letting go of what is not in your favor. Things are created by faith in what was once imaginal. You don't argue with yourself whether you can have it or not. That's not walking in faith.

Walking in faith means remaining loyal to what you're being conscious of inside the mind. It's about seeing the senses without being occupied by them. It's about making the inward reality the true and only reality. It's about viewing the entire world of the senses as the effect.

If the senses are an effect then it makes no sense to be paralyzed by them. We will have those moments, sure, but don't become a pawn to it. You are the being who occupies states of consciousness or awareness. These are what get "manifested" out into the experience.

It's our state of mind that brings to fruition what we are experiencing. Knowing that states fulfill themselves, you are allowed to occupy anything your heart desires to experience. You do this by holding onto faith in what you've done inside. No one else has to know what you're being conscious of being inward.

So I ask you to walk and persist in this imaginal act of being now. Make imagination the only reality. Let go of the world and the words that have been spoken. Remember, imagination is the only reality. There is no need to be affected by what is only an effect.

Becoming the person who has already those things is the goal. That is something we do within ourselves. We become the one who has the thing. We manifest who we are being, then. And we do that by being faithful to what we are conscious of being now.

Leave the world alone. Don't change it. Change the self. Self is who we are being right now. What we are consciously aware of being inside the mind. Inside the body. That is the inner-self. We make that the only reality and we persist in making it true through faith.

Do that and eventually you will see what you were conscious of doing inside the mind being expressed. That is all we've been doing. So don't be afraid to trust in your imagination. Everything is reflecting imagination because that's all that is expressed.

You got this. Don't give up on yourself!

We are living in a world of mental states being externalized. There's no question about it. When we are occupying thoughts about events that have happened, will happen or can happen, we must recognize that we are entering contemplation in the mind.

If it's in the mind then the choice is ours to decide what we want to entertain inside. No one else holds this power but us.

If we wish to see love and beauty in our lives then we must start becoming conscious of love and beauty. We do that by holding ourselves in that image. And that is something that is done now. It's always now. There is no past or future when we recognize that.

All we have in life is the everlasting present moment. That's where dreams can be experienced. So what are you expressing? Are you happy with that? If not, change it. But not by doing outer acts in hopes that someone on the outside will give you that. Do it inward and bring it to the present moment.

There truly is no moment for us to experience other than now. If that's where we always are then everything else was mental occupation. That's how powerful humanity is. We have the ability to create mental states that appear more real than what actually is.

You can look at the world as it is and see imperfections. You see people doing evil acts. You see poverty. Destruction. But you don't have to replicate that inside yourself. You're allowed to expand beyond the state of the world and create beautiful things. And if you persist in these lovely acts you do inside yourself, it will naturally express itself.

So don't wait to change and don't become a prisoner of other people's judgement. You can't. We are only seeing our own perceptions when we bring our attention back to the present moment. That's where our imagination becomes profound in expressing itself. Why is that? Because you no longer fall into the illusion of seeking. Instead its already done and being experienced.

Remember who you are. It's an act of grounding yourself into the state of wish fulfilled. And that's something that is experienced right now. Not in the past or the future. It's something that is experienced now.

Take care.

Neville's teachings are absolutely profound when we understand the premise and that is nothing to change but self. If this is true then we must go about testing it and that starts with self. So we're told to change ourselves. How do we do that? By changing how we experience ourselves in present-tense.

Imagine already being the one who IS fulfilled. It's an act of surrendering to a present-tense version of yourself. We already are that being. We've only fallen into the mental identity of not being. We don't need anything on the outside to change ourselves. It's already been done and ready to be accepted fully.

You don't have to stay stuck or be forced into a state of mind and you don't have to wait for the world to change so that you can change. None of that is required if we realize ourselves to be the BEING that is dwelling in mental states of the self.

Change is an act of mercy, then, because we are redeeming ourselves into a greater perception of the self. And it becomes an act of forgiveness if we realize that we've been creating nightmares inside ourselves. It's self forgiveness because we can have and be ANYTHING we want to be now. It's always going to be this way.

Many of the times we seek for a change in the senses. We look out into the world and see imperfections. We often neglect the BEING that is painting the perceptions of "this isn't good'. But we don't have to necessarily do that. We are allowed to leave the world exactly as it is and change self.

You will find yourself to be the imaginal being that is identifying itself with mental states of consciousness. And because imagination is reality what we are conscious of being WILL externalize itself into the world as evidence. There truly is nothing outside of us to change for us to change and move inside.

So promise yourself TO yourself that you will no longer identify with being someone you no longer want to be. The mind is reflecting how you are feeling about yourself. If that's the case then you are a magnificent creator because there are no limits to what you are imagining as reality now.

Don't shame yourself. Don't guilt yourself. Don't be afraid. Don't suppress ANYTHING. Face everything with acceptance because what is created inside can be changed. If what we feel cannot be changed then we are living in doubt and living as a servant inside the mind. We don't have to do that.

Don't be a servant inside yourself. Recognize that you are the one creating these imaginal acts. All thoughts and feelings are being expressed by the imagination. And Neville said imagination is complete. So we genuinely need NOTHING to change ourselves. You can never be a prisoner when you recognize this.

Changing ourselves is all we need and we need nothing to do this. We need not to go outside oneself to find the change we seek. The world can imprison you and you can feel free. Then you will be free because we are the one having the experience.

Genuinely, I hope you guys experience the things you want. I mean that. I want you to succeed. You don't have to continue occupying states of mind that don't serve you. They may have served a purpose at one point that has now become hectic. Well, CHANGE that. You do that by focusing on changing how you feel about yourself.

This is all a present-tense feeling of being. It will always be that. Change self now and stay firm to this change. Regardless of what the world tells you. Never bar yourself for there are no second causes to what you are occupying within yourself. Remember this and then you will become a master at painting imaginal acts that are in harmony with who you've once desired to be.

Yall be safe now and bless your hearts with total acceptance. You got this. I'm rooting for you. Now apply what Neville taught and feel it to your depths. There is no one or nothing to change but self...and self is all imagination!

Thank you.

I've got to be honest guys. It's really incredible how we're creating our own experiences when we allow ourselves to accept the present self. Neville was right when he said that we already are the person we desire to be. We simply fallen into the consciousness of not being that.

Imagination truly is reality. I know this to be the case because I've experienced both sides of the coin. I've occupied states of consciousness that I wasn't happy with. And I've occupied states of consciousness where I was feeling like I've finally found myself.

The goal of Neville's teachings, in my own opinion, is to remember who you are beyond the senses. This whole world is an expression of who we've contemplated ourselves to be. But we don't have to necessarily do anything if we take the teachings of Neville into consideration. We are allowed to become a witness of our own fulfillment.

We are allowed to Imagine anything. Including love and fulfillment itself. You don't have to seek for it OR continue searching for things to fulfill inside. Desires will always come and go. What remains is who we are in those moments. That's important because if you don't know yourself to be the dreamer, you're more likely to occupy unwanted mental states.

The best course of action we can do while we're here is to create beautiful concepts of ourselves. It always starts with ourselves. We don't have to continue living in fear. We are allowed to experience love and beauty and peace and confidence. But you have to give that to yourself. And you can. You absolutely can.

So don't count yourself out when it comes to fulfillment and love. You're absolutely allowed to experience these wonderful things and without the aid of another. You don't need anything to view yourself in loving ways. The way you desire to feel and think about yourself is all up to you. And that's done right now.

(I wrote this out in another community and felt compelled to share here. So thank you if you come across this post and have read it entirely. I wrote it in the moment).

Remember that this work is about a change in ourselves. It's never about the outside. If you are trying to make a change for something in the external, gently take yourself back to the realization that it's all about changing yourself. You are actually pushing yourself out because all there is in life is you.

We are the conceiver being conceived and so, we give birth to the conceptions we are holding of ourselves. There was never once a moment where we conceived something outside oneself. It's coming from within us and us is to be found on the inside. That is the responsibility that we have.

So it is our responsibility to take ownership over what it is that we are creating in the mind. We do this by letting go of the world. It was never about the world were we to recognize ourselves as the imagination creating reality. If we allow ourselves to recognize this truth, we will naturally feel and view ourselves in a fresh lens.

We push this being that we are from inside to outside, then. When we do this we will discover that the power to create has been within us all this time, and we will come to embrace the fact that we've deceived ourselves with our own imaginative acts. But we are allowed to create something new and if we persist in ourselves, naturally will it be expressed.

So don't worry about the outside and what it is showing you. It only shows you what you are conceiving yourself to be.

If you've been reading and applying the teachings for awhile then I'm sure you've come to the contemplation on the ending in the story of imagination. Where we recognize the unity each individual shares with imagining these ideas and conceptions that become molded into the world.

Because we are the imaginal spirit individualized into these bodies, there is no other to turn to for creating movement. And because we are the individualized expression of this being that is occupying mental states, we are all connected in a symbolic manner.

There is no one here who lacks redemption for we've all used our imagination unlovingly at some point. We all have. No one here has went a moment in life without occupying a negative thought. We've all sinned with ourselves by imagining things that do not align with who we wish to be.

But we are still allowed to imagine ANYTHING. That includes beauty and love. We are allowed to experience beauty and love inside and that will express itself into our lives. So we do not have to continue placing ourselves into these mental bondages.

In the end, we are the imagination. The consciousness that is molding itself with imaginative acts. There is no other one needs to go to for redemption, then. It was all a misuse in our imaginal power, which means we can start changing the story we are telling ourselves on the inside.

Because we are the imagination individualized, the story is about the self which is all imagination, as Neville speaks of. Therefore, change the story you are telling of yourself. Begin to see yourself beyond the senses and start to embody greater and more beautiful conceptions of yourself.

And if you allow yourself to persist in occupying these beautiful acts that you are doing inside, it will naturally express itself into the world. Then you will recognize how intimate we are with the world. We ARE the world. So let's create a beautiful world. Heaven on earth. We can do it by changing ourselves inside!

When it comes to this work we must recognize it to be a change in ourselves if we wish to succeed in the teachings of this law. Neville said that if you are still desiring, stop it right now. He is telling you that you don't have to continue desiring. We don't have to do that anymore if we know imagination is the only reality.

Imagination doesn't question if you can or can't experience your desire. It unconditionally accepts anything you give awareness to with persistent conviction. So if what we are giving awareness to starts to express itself, all we must do is become aware of already having that now.

When you start to change what you are aware of having, you are changing what you are aware of being now. You can't have something without first being it. The two share an intimate relationship hence Neville stating to change self. That self is the imagination that is conceptualizing itself here.

If you are the imagination then you can start to see yourself as a mental author. You are writing something about yourself. Its a story about yourself, then. So what story are you telling yourself on the inside? This is crucial because it allows you to become aware of what you are consenting towards.

The law, then, is not about worthiness or deserving. And it's not about any other. It's truly about changing how we experience things on the inside. If we can change how we are experiencing things on the inside, it will be expressed. Then we will realize that we've been misusing this imaginal power to create.

We don't have to continue to create nightmares while we are here. We are allowed to create beautiful things and we do that by changing the experiences we are being aware of internally. So don't wait to change. Assume yourself to already being the person who is what they've been desiring.

When you persist in this new experience you are giving towards yourself on the inside, you will realize that the source you've been seeking this entire time had been within you, and you will find that source to be yourself. So surrender to the deepest depths of you and allow it to express unconditionally.

So when we go about applying the teachings of Neville we must recognize ourselves to be in desire. In that moment you want to go from thinking you don't have it or can't become it and change that into accepting yourself already being the person who has what they once were desiring.

We have to let go of the idea in manifesting altogether if we wish to harness the ability of creating whatever it is we desire. If you can allow yourself to gently drop the idea of not having it and begin to see yourself in a new light, you will see changes in yourself and that will express itself.

Man is all imagination. There is no doubt about that. So don't limit yourself into thinking you can't have or be something. You're the inner-self who has identified with states of consciousness. We don't have to continue doing that. You are absolutely allowed to change and embrace fulfillment.

This entire world is a shadow that mirrors the dreamer inside oneself. And the dreamer which is an imaginal being can accept anything it wants because it's the only thing here. So free yourself and expand beyond your previous mental circumstances.

Years ago I would think detachment meant no longer wanting the things I was desiring. I realise this wasn't the full case. Detachment is about letting go of the idea in seeking. It is an act of surrendering to the realization that you already are the person who has what they've been seeking. If you can allow yourself to become a victim to that realization then your life will change drastically.

Neville doesn't really get too deep into detachment. He was mainly concerned with faith and trusting in his imagination. I think he genuinely had full conviction in imagination being the true, ultimate reality. And he's right to have that conviction because it's true. Realizing that, there is nothing to seek for since life is ourselves being expressed from inward to outward.

If life and myself are ultimately the same then what I am really seeking for is a change in myself. But myself cannot be found on the outside as that is the expression of who I am being on the inside. So if who am I being affects the world then there is nothing in the outside for me to seek. It is all done internally without the aid of another. Neville is right then when he says that there is no one or nothing to change but self.

The way I go about changing myself is this. I first recognize that I am desiring something. Then I understand the teachings of this principle where what I am seeking for can be found within me. And so, I drop the idea of there being something to achieve or externalize. I completely let go of the senses and go within myself because if I can let go of something in the mind then it holds no power over what I want to imagine.

This is an internal game, then. There is no one or nothing to change but self. And you will find self to be your own life because if you change yourself and life starts to reflect this back then the cause of life is you. The idea of life happening outside of us is a manifestation of separation that happens in the mind. We don't have to continue viewing life and self as two separate things. We can view them as one and the same.

So if you wish to see major changes in your life then you must let go of the idea in externalizing and start to accept already being the one who has what it is they once were seeking for. Become the ruler of the mind rather than the one who seeks. And if you persist in this truth, your life will conform and mirror you.

Thank you.

Neville is right when he said that imagination is reality. He wasn't pointing to the body or circumstances, though. He was pointing towards consciousness itself. The being that can be aware of ANYTHING. Most of the time, though, we often get too caught up with our desires. And Neville is saying to not do that. Don't leave yourself in desiring things.

All desires come from the inner-man. The imagination, if you will. This imaginal being that is desiring things. We are the imagination. But the imagination cannot experience fulfillment if it continues to identify as man. We truly have to let go of all these labels. They were never us to begin with.

Imagination can only give towards itself that which it is conscious of being. So we give to ourselves what we are conscious of being. And if we are being conscious of desiring then are we living in the wish fulfilled? Because you cannot desire to be that which you already ARE.

We must let go of the idea in desiring something altogether if we want to live in fulfillment. I'm not saying you can't experience things you love. But you don't have to live in desire because if you are the one who is in desire then you are the one who can fulfill it. And you do that within yourself.

You don't need ANYTHING out here to feel a certain way. You really don't. You are allowed to feel anything your heart desires and you do that internally. Lose yourself in fulfillment. Lose yourself in the presence of your father who calls things unseen as if they were seen.

Don't seek for change, be the change. Don't desire for it, embrace the realization that you already ARE that which you desire to BE. Instead of having a want, be the cause. Don't feel unworthy of being it NOW. You are allowed to occupy anything within yourself.

The best way to go about it from experience is to harness attention itself and place it onto the awareness of being it NOW. It's a present tense awareness of BEING. It's not having, it's not doing, it's not saying, and it's not thinking of. It's about being it.

When you come to the realization that imagination is reality then you will find yourself inside yourself. You will recognize that you are the imagination (consciousness) occupying states of mind. But you don't have to occupy anything. You are ALREADY complete. It's like love.

Love doesn't require a condition. Love doesn't require anything. Love is already pure itself. See yourself as love, then. Don't lose yourself into thinking that you can't be in fulfillment. Allow the imagination to fulfill you. And you will find yourself to be all imagination.

When there are times of great distress and overwhelming emotions, who must we turn towards to be redeemed and free from these things? It's ultimately yourself whom you must go to. And self is found on the inside. It's not found in another. Really, there is no other. The battle that is taking place is happening within us.

The beauty of this realization is that there is nothing that frees us but ourselves. So you are already qualified to redeem every aspect of yourself. How can we do that, then? Through love. Love it all. Love conquers the darkness that is within yourself. Can you accept that? Embody that realization into truth? Of course you can.

Man is always expressing mental states but God entertains without judgment. So go to God. Let God see you without these labels or ideas that is being entertained within. And you will come to find revelation within yourself. You need not the hand of another. There is no other. It's all consciousness in the being expressing itself as a mental construct.

The war is truly within ourselves. And we are told by scripture that the salvation of man will inevitably occur. So we will be saved in the end. But we aren't saved by a being on the outside. We are going to conquer everything from within and that will become fulfillment itself. Then we will realize who we were not.

Hey guys. Hope you're all doing well. I came to a profound realization today and I want to share that with you. So this realization is about desire and how desire itself is an illusion. Think about it like this. Neville tells us that imagination is reality and that our true self is all imagination. He then goes on to say that the imagination is complete, and that our refusal to believe that we are that which we desire to be IS why we don't see it. That we already are fulfilled. And I realized how true this is.

When we are having a desire, we are almost convincing ourselves that we don't have it. As if we are lacking something. But the imagination is complete. There is nothing to lack. We are allowed to experience fulfillment regardless of what the world is showing. You don't necessarily NEED anything in order to feel fulfilled. You can learn to let go of the idea in needing something to feel fulfilled. Drop that idea altogether and realize that you already ARE fulfilled.

It seems almost like destiny. That we are destined to experience ourselves as fulfillment in eternity for eternity. And that the idea of lacking something is an illusion...because you are able to experience fulfillment.

We must learn to let go of the senses. The senses really can't give us the feelings of fulfillment. The senses are simply mimicking the imagination. Consciousness if you will. It's all a mirror of the one within. And it seems to be a revelation that will occur in you if you come to believe it. That desire is an illusion and that you are actually experiencing fulfillment. Can you believe that? It almost sounds too good to be true because of how incredible that is. And yet, it seems to be true.

You already ARE that which you desire to be. Accept that. Embrace that. Hold onto that realization. The idea of having to desire becomes absolutely vaporized when you come to embracing yourself from within. And because this whole world is reflecting the one within, it inevitably will start to express itself. Then you will see how powerful you truly are. You will no longer be paralyzed by doubts or fear. You will come to know christ. And that is your very own imagination, as Neville says.

Thank you.

When it comes to having desires, Neville tells us that all desires come from one source and that is the imagination. The imagination is inside and this world is an expression of what we are imagining ourselves to be internally. So if we can see this world as a shadow then there is nothing outside of us to go towards for fulfilling our desires.

The best way I have found to externalizing things is to drop the idea of manifesting altogether. Dropping that idea helped me to embrace the present moment because if I am doing something with a goal in mind, I am telling myself that I do not yet have it. But we already are that which we desire to be NOW.

So when you find yourself in desire, shift your attention back to the present moment. The past and the future are illusions that we, the imagination, are creating in the mind. There truly is no past or future. Everything is an appearance taking place in imagination. This body, this circumstance(s) - it's an expression of who you already are inside.

> 'You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe it is the only reason you do not see it.' > > - Feeling Is The Secret by Neville Goddard

Read that quote carefully. Meditate on it if you have to. You already are that which you want to be.

Key words: "Are" and "Already"

Neville is telling us that we already are the person who has what it is that they are desiring. If this is true then desire itself is an illusion. We've simply fallen into the assumption that we aren't that.

If we can recognize that we already are the person who has what they're desiring in the mind, then all we have to do is accept that as a present tense fact now. Don't question it, accept it.

From personal experience, I have come to find Neville's teachings to be true and effective when we apply what he is saying. It's truly an act of acceptance with your wish fulfilled. You will KNOW it in the mind when you feel yourself being present.

So when you catch yourself in desire, remind yourself that you already ARE the person who you are desiring. You just fallen to the illusion of not being that. If you can recognize that as a present tense fact NOW, you will fulfill your desires and you will realize that all you've been desiring has already been fulfilled NOW.

Hey everyone! Squeezing in this community to give yall a reminder that Fasting is a choice between you and your body. You don't have to allow yourself to be influenced by someone else's lifestyle choices or desires for that regard. And it is not selfish to dismiss the concern of other's in regards to fasting.

I'm not saying to be disrespectful or act egoistical to those who look into our fasting lifestyle with disapproval. Absolutely not. Treat your folks with love and respect. Just know that this is a relationship between you and your body. You make the choice as to what you are doing with your body. Your body is your temple. Not the temple of another.

The number #1 rule of the fasting club is to not talk about fasting with those who may be arrogant or dismissive. But I will tell you this. If and when there does come a time where you feel compelled towards breaking your fast so that others do not worry, remember why you started.

Fasting is a personal choice and it is made between you and your body. Always remember this. Its you and your body. Not the body of another. Respect and honor the choice you are making. Do not allow outer influence to get between that. It's an intimate relationship between yourself and your body. It will always be that.

Stay hydrated folks and embrace that self-empowerment! Much love ❤️

As Neville Goddard tells us, reality is a reflection of imagination, and the imagination is consciousness itself. So when we are looking at the world, really, we're looking at ourselves. You don't look at people in your mind and change them. You change yourself because reality is connected with how you see yourself. That's how you change your life. That's how the mirror changes.

It's all about changing the conceptions you hold of yourself. There truly is no "other" when you begin to see life as yourself. You're not separate from life. You and I didn't appear into the world. The world appeared itself in you and it will appear itself as you. This will happen in the individual. That is our destiny. Neville came to that realization by the end of his teachings. And I feel that will be a realization all of humanity will grasp eventually.

While you and I are still here in the flesh, you are given the ability to imagine beautiful things. And you are allowed to do so without placing your hand in the pockets of another. Remember, there is no other. Life is all based on the conceptions you are holding of yourself. So if you are seeing a person and feel a desire of validation from them, you actually want to give yourself validation. You are the only person who can ever give that to yourself. And it's always going to be that way.

It's always about the self. Change not others, but self. Don't change the mirror, change the reflector. Don't fight with the world, change the world through repentance. And repentance is a radical change in the conceptions one holds of themselves. That's all you have to do. That's all you can do, truly.