Here’s an interesting quote by Neville Goddard:
“It is entirely possible that you either have had or will have a number of failures in this respect – many of them in really important matters.
If, having read this book, having a thorough knowledge of the application and working of the law of assumption, you faithfully apply it in an effort to attain some intense desire and fail, what is the reason? If, to the question “Did you persist enough?”, you can answer “Yes” – and still the attainment of your desire was not realized, what is the reason for failure?
The answer to this is the most important factor in the successful use of the law of assumption.
The time it takes your assumption to become fact, your desire to be fulfilled, is directly proportionate to the naturalness of your feeling of already being what you want to be – of already having what you desire.
The fact that it does not feel natural to you to be what you imagine yourself to be is the secret of your failure.
Regardless of your desire, regardless of how faithfully and intelligently you follow the law, if you do not feel natural about what you want to be, you will not be it. If it does not feel natural to you to get a better job, you will not get a better job.
You must realize that changes are not caused by caprice, but by a change of consciousness. You may fail to achieve or sustain the particular state of consciousness necessary to produce the effect you desire.
But, once you know that consciousness is the only reality and is the sole creator of your particular world and have burnt this truth into your whole being, then you know that success or failure is entirely in your own hands.”
Remember that what Neville Goddard is telling us here is that failures happen not because you aren’t persistent or don’t follow the method, but because the feeling of already having what you want doesn’t feel natural to you. The energy is not aligned for some reason.
Success depends on truly energetically embodying the state of being you desire. Your thoughts alone aren’t enough; your consciousness, energy, thoughts, emotions, body must align with your goal.
Change comes from living in that state internally, not from external effort. Once you fully accept that your consciousness shapes your reality, success or failure is entirely in your hands.
