The Neville Goddard Lectures
By Imagination We Become
Lecture Summary
Imagination is the Only Reality
In By Imagination We Become, Neville Goddard presents his most fundamental teaching: we literally become what we imagine. Imagination is not a tool for daydreaming — it is the creative substance of reality itself. Every person, circumstance, and event in your life is the outpicturing of your habitual imaginal acts. By deliberately and persistently imagining yourself as the person you wish to be, you literally become that person. This is not metaphor. This is the law.
By Imagination We Become
"By imagination we become." This is not a poetic sentiment — it is the literal description of how reality is created.
You are not what you think you are. You are what you imagine yourself to be. Your habitual imaginal acts are the mold into which your life is poured.
Every great person in history became great first in imagination. They saw themselves as they wished to be, and they persisted in that seeing until the outer world conformed.
The imagination is not a faculty separate from God. It is God in action. When you imagine, you are exercising the divine creative power that brought the universe into being.
Do not imagine idly. Imagine deliberately. Choose the state you wish to occupy, and then live from that state in your imagination until it becomes your natural dwelling place.
By imagination we become. This is the whole of the teaching, and it is enough.
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