Neville Goddard "Order Your Conversations Aright" Lecture Excerpts (1970)

neville goddard april 16 1970 order your conversations or write lecture excerpts can i actually now this very moment construct a simple conversation which if it is true will involve that I realize my objective can I then be faithful to that conversation or will I wander from it while I'm telling you it's very difficult it seems so simple I certainly could take a little conversation between a friend and myself in a dialogue and tell him that all the things are as I would like them to be that I have this goal and that goal and do you realize I have realized it it all came so simply and so naturally it all fell into place could you really believe that well the thing is to try it see how long you can carry on that conversation without wandering away I've tried it over and over every time I'm successful in keeping it to where demand and words but to quote Shakespeare it is a great virtue and the one who can do it it is a noble virtue to follow your own instruction so I can teach you it is easy far easier to teach xx what we're good to be done than to be the one of the 20 to follow my own teaching but now let me share with you a story I know well the story of my father he was born a very poor white man in the island of Barbados my mother was born poor she had nothing he had nothing and I proceeded to have children twelve children were born two died at birth ten survived he had nothing how he got hold of this I do not know but the first time he heard me speak in New York City was a Sunday morning and when we went back to the apartment he said you know everything you said this morning is true but why do you tell people to close your eyes don't close your eyes keep them partly shut you can control your imagination and you can control your attention better if the eyes are not completely closed when you see me in the morning after breakfast reclining in my chair you might think that I'm just sleeping it off because he's a heavy drinker you might think I'm simply sleeping it off I'm not sleeping off anything I'm doing my day's work then I bring before my mind's eye the men I want to deal with that day and I control the conversation I tell them exactly what I want to tell them as though it were true I let them tell me confirm that it is true and then when I am completely satisfied with my inner conversation then I go to town and it works that way now he started behind the 8-ball he had himself my mother my grandmother and the ten of us to feed plus a few servants it was not easy but when he died in 1959 he would leave his ten children because my mother preceded him by many years and he never remarried she died in 41 and he said no I've been so blissfully happy with your mother I could not ever get married again and so he remained single until he died at the age of 85 and when he died that poor man could leave a family of ten independently wealthy each not just collectively he gave it to each individually as a block of stock in the company just to the ten of us in 1951 it was then equal to an independent income for each of us it has tripled since he gave it to us when he died in 1959 under the control of my brother Victor who practices the same thing Victor doesn't smoke and he doesn't drink but he sits alone and in his room he too is carrying on as little inner conversations premises of desires fulfilled and he can completely control that imagination of his he can completely control the inner conversation and things work just as he has determined them he never goes to church he's a religious man in the true sense of the word he gives generously to charity into all people you would never know how many people he helps in the island because he doesn't publicize it that works for him because he has found out inner conversations will do it and you know how day to day there are certain people who will run the same thing like a record and do it over and over and over and when you meet them they start just where they left off the last time you talked with them they tell you the same story over and over and over how rotten she is to me or how rotten he is to me and after one solid year when you return to the city they take up just where they left off before and they wonder why are these things happening to me well here in the greatest book in the world we are told why for if my conversation determines my nature my nature is that principle upon which our depend for the sameness of forms and transmitted life how can I change the form when the form is dependent upon my inner conversation the old nature belongs to my former conversations the new nature belongs to my new conversations can I put on the new and make it so natural that I will do with that as I did with the former one and can I now so completely change the record and play often enough that it becomes a habit within me as I walk the earth so that things are perfect so that things are easy so that when I read the headline of a market crash it doesn't disturb me so when I read the headline that something has gone to pot it does not disturb me inwardly since this is based upon principle it doesn't matter what happens in the world because the world is simply the outpouring other conversations of men and women in the world if I change my conversation in the midst of a depression I'm still going to be successful in my world there are men today that were hugely successful when millions lost so much during the depressed market they're not concerned about the market and they don't watch the market at all but they must be controlling their inner conversation I try to the best of my ability to practice it because I get to requests morning noon and night in my mail asking me to hear this hear that and hear the other I never fail to hear it I try not to dwell upon it after I've heard it I must believe that what I have heard must come to pass as told in the first epistle of John in the fifth chapter if we know that he hears us in whatever we are we know we have obtained the requests made of him John 5:50 what a challenge if we know what he hears us in whatever we ask no restraint upon the things we ask for then we know we have theirs the past tense we've obtained the requests made of him read it in the fifth chapter 15 verse of the first epistle of John well what a fantastic promise to make to man I don't have then to keep it going it's like putting a seed down and having full confidence in the planting of the seed fort contains within itself the power of self-expression the Word of God is like the seed of God and it is planted at the moment that you carry on the conversation so I bring before my mind's eye the one who's asked of me if I know them if I do not know them I imagine that I've heard from them they will not always confirm it but I imagined they wrote to me and thanked me mrs. Archibald Roosevelt who was just killed in an automobile accident in New York City she would come home once a month this was always a problem with her family never her husband but her children and in-laws one day she said to me my son has returned from Egypt and he has an enormous build and I'm so ashamed to walk down the street with him here was this young good-looking lad now this was before the hippies when people began to grow long hair and beards he was unique so I said now mrs. Roosevelt you know what a kiss of your Sun would be like without the beard don't you oh yes she said well kiss him and he doesn't have a beard put your arms around him and kiss your son and see the nice smooth skin and feel it well she said I'll do it well she never once told me but because of her position in the world I read in the morning newspaper on a Monday morning here is the big spread of a wedding he got married on Sunday a smooth-skinned lad mrs. Roosevelt Archie Roosevelt the bride the whole gang of them when she came the next time I said you know your son has shaved his beard she said yes do you know why you know he married a girl who disliked it because she completely disliked it he shaved it off I said so that's why it happened tell me mrs. Roosevelt did you do what I asked you to do and I reminded her of what I had asked she said oh yes I did that but why he did it was the girl you see they always go back to the means employed the girl could have loved him just as much with the beard but she had to initiate the drive he shaved it off and then the mother gave full credit to the girl I've seen so many times this happened and they never turned back but forget we have a very short memory we do not remember when we set into motion the events or when we planted the seeds so if nothing comes into the world by accident it is produced by some principle and the principle is told in this talk tonight and the principle is simply our conversation our little simple inner conversations when we are alone the conversations when you are putting on a mask and meet someone at a cocktail party and you are all lying everybody is lying you have a few martinis and this one lies that one lies little do they know what they are doing is a lie but I don't mean that I mean when you are alone when I wrote my first book your faith is your fortune I sent the first copy off the breast to my father and mother when I wrote the inscription I said if there is such a thing as reincarnation and I have to come back to this world again I would ask for nothing greater than to have you two as my parents so daddy because of that inscription started to look at the book it has 26 chapters in each chapter began with a quote from the Bible so he closed the book when I went home a few years later I asked daddy did you read my book he said oh why should I you took 26 little verses from the scripture and wrote a book of 200 pages I know the 26 verses so that's how he said it why should I read it I know those verses and it's the one book he always reads perhaps he did find it I do not know now tonight it shouldn't take you long if you know it's true and I know it's true to change the entire world if you put on a new record and you can easily put on the new record just what would it be like if it were true and if it were true would anyone know yes my wife would know at first my daughter would know it and then my circle would widen then my circle of friends would know it will start with the one you know best first my wife would know it I share all things with her and then my daughter would know it so I carry on a conversation first with my wife and then with my daughter Vicky so then trying to make it a lasting conversation so that it becomes a habit instead of going back into the negative make it a positive statement and try to make it so natural in yourself that it is easy to pick up that record and put it on and see how it works in your world it doesn't cost you anything it costs you nothing to do it and this is what Scripture teaches and it cannot but return to you if you know who you are and I am trying to convince everyone that I reach that they are God it's a shock to them because they have been told that they are little worms you aren't little worms you are God wearing garment of flesh for educative purposes but you are God you have his name and he will not give his name to another but he puts you through the furnaces of affliction to receive his name you're going through the furnaces so wherever you are you are in a bar that's a holy place why because you are there if you go into any place that the world would judge harshly it is holy because you are there and you can sit anyplace in the world you don't have to go into a church you can sit at home in any room sit in the garden see any place in this world and just carry on a conversation with yourself this controlled dialogue this may turn out one day to be the most fruitful conversation that you've ever had so we all need something tonight we all do even those who have a billion they still want more and I wouldn't judge them harshly they want it let them have it if they want more because as blake said more and more is acquired the fool all or nothing william blake from there is no natural religion second series well don't modify your objective you know what you want well that's it now what would the feeling be like and what would i say and to whom would i say it well now carry on that conversation from the premise of the wish fulfilled and try to keep it up until it is natural feels natural when it takes on the tones of reality in the feeling of naturalness you've got it the thing is working now you can play it over and over as you play a nice record if you like good music you never tire of listening to it you can play it every day in several times a day and never tire of good music if you appreciate it you could get tired of the bebop but how could you ever tire the beautiful classical pieces I know I don't so I could listen to them every day and I do when I'm at home we turn on our radio to a certain station and it's 24 hours a day of classical music Kay FAC with very little advertising in a small little three-minute newscast on the hour and then throughout the hour on broken our wonderful music piano music between 9:00 and 10:00 the Beethoven's and the Brahms in the box for one solid hour I just enjoy it feast upon it well you can take a record your own record and do that and then let it come back into this world bearing fruit so I do hope you will take me seriously you haven't a thing to lose and all to gain that's why you are here and that's why I've been sent to tell you there is a law and there is a promise the promise is going to come regardless but while you are waiting for the promise you could make your life more comfortable with the use of the law because the law must be operated we are the operand power it will not operate itself but the promise is coming you can't stop the promise the promise is that you are going to be God that's the promise you are going to wake up one day and know that your God and all the symbolism that confirms it will stand before you and then you know who you are so that promise is coming but while you wait for the promise take the law and use it I quoted very much this night on the law which is the inner conversations use your inner conversations because if you do you will have the salvation of God because your former conversations were related to your old nature and he tells you to put it off you can only be put off old nature by putting off the old conversations because they are related the former conversations for producing the old nature and if the nature is the principle upon which man depends for sameness of form as transmitted life the same form is going to be transmitted until you change the former conversations the former conversations were producing the old nature and if the nature is the principle upon which man depends for sameness of form and transmitted life the same form is going to be transmitted until change the former conversations when you put on the new record the new conversations you are going to change your world and people will meet you and wonder what has happened to you why he is now moving in the most marvellous manner things are just going perfectly for him why he changed his nature how did he do it he changed his inner conversations so I ask you to try it but work it radically and go to the very root and put on a new record you can do it I warned you earlier it is not the easiest thing in the world because we are creatures of habit but when you catch yourself going back to the old record just put on the new record again and the new one will become just as easy to play and is natural to play as the old one is now now let us go to the silence you

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