"If I desire to be wealthy, I may not know how long it will take me to reach the conviction that I possess great wealth, but when I feel wealth is mine I have conceived. Conception is my end. The length of time between my desire and its conception depends entirely upon my inner conviction that it is done."
"Faith is the subjective appropriation of an objective hope. When my friend revised the first telephone conversation, he subjectively appropriated what he hoped would objectify for his friend. He remained faithful to his imaginal act, and confirmation came."
"You do not have to persuade others to help you; all you need do is believe you are what you want to be and then let the world - which is nothing more than yourself pushed out - go to work to make your assumption possible. I promise you: your desire will be fulfilled, for all things are possible to him who believes"
"Having assumed the life you now live, no one can take it from you but yourself. You have the power to lay it down by no longer being conscious of it, and the power to pick it up again through consciousness"
"I know this vision was the result of my intense meditation upon the idea of perfection, for my meditations invariably bring about union with the state contemplated"
The ancient teachers warned us not to judge from appearances because, said they, the truth need not conform to the external reality to which it relates.
We have only to concentrate on the state desired in order to mentally see it, but to give it reality so that it will become an objective fact, we must focus attention upon the invisible state until it has the feeling of reality.
All changes take place in consciousness. The future, although prepared in every detail in advance, has several outcomes. At every moment of our lives we have before us the choice of which of several futures we will choose.
Get into the spirit of the state desired by assuming the feeling that would be yours were you already the one you want to be. As you capture the feeling of the state sought, you are relieved of all effort to make it so, for it is already so.
Prayer is not so much what you ask for, as how you prepare for its reception. "Whatsoever things ye desire, when ye pray believe that you have received them, and ye shall have them" [Mark 11:24]. The only condition required is that you believe that your prayers are already realized.