Neville Goddard – I Am The Vine

May 5 1963

Neville Goddard

We turn now to the 15th chapter of the Book of John. Here we are told about a strange vine. He said, “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that bears no fruit, my Father takes away, and every branch that bears fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit” (verse 1). And you’ll find a parallel in Isaiah 18. I look at my world, and everything seems on the outside but everything. It seems completely independent of my perception of it, everything in this world; I don’t care what it is. This, the nearest thing in my world seems so completely detached and independent of my perception of it, and that is my circular world, as I look at the world; to the extent that I can take everything in my world and change it and make it conform to my ideal of what I think it ought to be, always using love as a motivation. Let me use my Imagination lovingly on behalf of every being in this world, and see them, as they ought to be seen were they now actually enjoying what they are doing. Let me persuade myself that it is true. As I bring about these changes in my outer world, this circular thing, I am producing that circular motion within me. I’m binding it. And when I’m completely convinced that nothing in this world truly exists independently of my perception of it, but nothing; I have completed that circular motion.