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Neville Goddard on love

Love runs through his radio talks and the later lectures: as the nature of God, as the way imagination should be used, and as a power that changes us into what we contemplate.

Each quote is verbatim from his books or the restored lecture transcripts. A lecture link plays only the quoted words.

“You and I can contemplate an ideal, and become it by falling in love with it.”

Five Lessons 1948, ch. 4, No One to Change but Self

“Everything else will pass away but love will endure forever.”

Love Endures lecture, at 2:55 Play 5 s

“We must be in love if we are to know what love is.”

The KECA Radio Talks 1951, ch. 4, Meditation

“Love and hate have a magical transforming power, and we grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate.”

Five Lessons 1948, ch. 4, No One to Change but Self

“If you would fall in love with what you really want to be, you would become it.”

Five Lessons 1948, ch. 6, Questions and Answers

“We must be the thing itself to actually know it spiritually. We must be in love to know love. We must be God to know God.”

Spiritually Known lecture, at 3:27 Play 16 s

“Love is the fundamental necessity of our life.”

The KECA Radio Talks 1951, ch. 2, By Imagination We Become

“Love is our birthright.”

The KECA Radio Talks 1951, ch. 2, By Imagination We Become

“The original birthplace of imagination is in love.”

The KECA Radio Talks 1951, ch. 6, Truth

“Love is not love if there is no beloved.”

The KECA Radio Talks 1951, ch. 6, Truth

“Love and fear are the mainspring of our mental machinery.”

The KECA Radio Talks 1951, ch. 6, Truth

“The man who really finds himself cannot do otherwise than let himself be guided by love.”

The KECA Radio Talks 1951, ch. 8, Feeling Is the Secret

“So, do it lovingly. Whatever you do, do lovingly. I don't care what it is.”

The Law: Your Choice and Risk lecture, at 29:24 Play 6 s

“This meant a complete reversal of man’s normal attitude towards life from “I will love him if he first loves me”, to “He loves me, because I first loved him.””

Seedtime and Harvest 1956, ch. 8, The Water and The Blood

“Remember that Love is always creative, causative in every sphere from the highest to the very lowest.”

The KECA Radio Talks 1951, ch. 6, Truth

“We must learn to know ourselves as Infinite Love, as good rather than evil.”

The KECA Radio Talks 1951, ch. 6, Truth

“But we can do the loving thing only when all we imagine is full of love for our neighbor.”

The KECA Radio Talks 1951, ch. 6, Truth

“Therefore, let us look at man through the eyes of imaginative love which is really seeing with the Eye of God.”

The KECA Radio Talks 1951, ch. 8, Feeling Is the Secret

“Your feelings of love, hate or indifference all spring from your own consciousness.”

Five Lessons 1948, ch. 6, Questions and Answers

“Through the wise and loving use of imagination, man clothes and feeds Christ, and through ignorant and fearful misuse of imagination, man disrobes and scourges Christ.”

Seedtime and Harvest 1956, ch. 9, A Mystical View

“Imaginative love lifts the invisible into sight and gives us water in the desert.”

The KECA Radio Talks 1951, ch. 2, By Imagination We Become

“Whenever you are in doubt, do the loving thing, and you've done the right thing.”

Andrew: 2nd Quality Disciple: Courage lecture, at 38:38 Play 7 s

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