Whenever your feeling is in conflict with your wish, feeling will be the victor.
Neville GoddardRead
Sleep conceals the creative act while the objective world reveals it. In sleep man impresses the subconscious with his conception of himself.
Interpretation
Sleep acts as a time for creative ideas to form while waking life allows for their expression.
This quote by Neville Goddard emphasizes the dual nature of sleep and wakefulness in the creative process. While we sleep, our subconscious mind develops and fosters creative thoughts and ideas that may not manifest in our conscious state. Upon waking, we have the potential to express and realize these subconscious creations in the objective world, highlighting the interplay between our inner thoughts and external reality.
In practice
During a creative workshop, one might quote this to illustrate the importance of sleep in the creative process.
Whenever your feeling is in conflict with your wish, feeling will be the victor.
Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and observe the route that your attention follows.
All you can possibly need or desire is already yours.Call your desires into being by imagining and feeling your wish fulfilled.
Most of us are reflecting life and not affecting it. Your inner speech mirrors your mind, and your mind mirrors God. If you_x000D_ do not change your thoughts, you haven't changed their activity. And if_x000D_ you do not change their activity, the conditions of your life cannot_x000D_ change, for they are only bearing witness to the inner action of your_x000D_ mind.
Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be.
The world is yourself pushed out. Ask yourself what you want and then give it to yourself! Do not question how it will come about; just go your way knowing that the evidence of what you have done must appear, and it will.
I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.
How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
Don't think that because you have to go down in the wash-tub that you are any less a lady!
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