I AM PRODUCING WITHIN MYSELF A CERTAIN POSITIVE, - Neville Goddard

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I AM PRODUCING WITHIN MYSELF A CERTAIN POSITIVE,

DELIBERATE, EMOTIONAL RESPONSE,

AND THAT VERY MOMENT THAT I DO, IT IS SEEDTIME

There is a little fable given us to show us how it is done. If you

will study the fable carefully, you will see the importance of

imagination. The fable is that of the fox and the grapes. You all know

it. When he failed to obtain the grapes, he then persuaded himself

that the grapes were sour, and by imagining the grapes to be sour, he

evoked in himself a change of attitude. He no longer felt about the

grapes as he formerly felt. Now that's a little fable on a negative

tone or a tragic tone. You and I take the same story, but now we put

it on a positive tone.

We contemplate our ambitious dream, our noble concept of life. It may

seem we haven't the talents to realize it - instead of saying what the

fox did, that the thing is beyond us, and therefore, it is sour

anyway, we take the same technique and wonder what it would be like

had we realized it. What would the feeling be like were we ______ and

we name it. If I can contemplate what the feeling would be like were I

the man that I want to be, were you the person that you want to be,

and rejoice in that state as though it were true, I am producing in

myself that emotional response necessary for seedtime.

I may not see an immediate harvest; maybe the thing that I am now

giving expression to in the form of seedtime is an oak, it is not a

little mushroom that would grow overnight. Maybe my dream would take a

little longer interval of time between the actual planting and the

reaping, but if I know that all things are consistent - " See yonder

the fields! The sesamum was sesamum; the corn was corn. The silence

and the darkness knew! So is a man's fate born. " So if that moment of

response is the actual planting of the corn, and if it was corn, it

must be corn when it appears in harvest time.

Then I can select the nature of the things I want to encounter in my

world.

I can take not just Neville as a man, I can take the request first of

my intimate circle, as a family man - my wife's desire for her child,

for her husband, for herself - the child's desire for itself - and

move beyond my little circle as a family man into the circle of

friendships, move beyond that into my acquaintances, move beyond that

into total strangers - impersonal states, but if I know the law holds

good, no matter when I operate it, if I do it unconsciously or

consciously, you get results regardless, and the results are in

harmony with the planting - with the actual seedtime.

Now what is our seedtime today? There are maybe two-thousand- odd here

today and that many requests. So you can take as you sit here and you

can actually contemplate what it would be like supposing it were true.

Suppose I could turn now to a friend and rejoice with him because of

his good fortune and actually carry on a mental conversation with him

from the premise that he or she has already realized the dream. Now as

I do it in my imagination, I am setting up within myself a certain

changed attitude in regard to that individual. I am producing within

myself a certain positive, deliberate, emotional response, and that

very moment that I do, it is seedtime.

I will encounter that individual tomorrow or next week or next month

and he will bear witness of that thing I plant now. He may be totally

unaware that I planted it in this garden. I am not seeking his praise,

I am not seeking credit - I am seeking results. If I see the man

become the embodiment of the success I know that he desires and I

desire for him, that's praise enough, that's payment enough! What more

payment would anyone desire other than the results, for everything is

a gift? Why should I be given more? My Father gave me the garden - the

whole thing is in complete and full bloom and gave me choice - the

greatest gift of all, complete freedom of choice of the nature of the

fruit I will reap in my world - but I cannot just barge into

the garden and start picking fruit - there must be a seedtime, but I

must always bear in mind I will reap that whereon I bestowed no labor.

I don't labor to make it so, I simply plant it, for in that moment of

response is contained all the plans, all the energy necessary to

unfold that plan into a perfect wonderful objective fact which I will

then harvest by becoming aware of it as an external reality, but I

don't labor to make it so; I simply must know it is so.

Neville Goddard

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