#66: Everyone Is Yourself Pushed Out

Everyone Is Yourself Pushed Out

A Lecture in the Voice and Spirit of Neville Goddard

You have felt it many times—the sense that people around you are fixed, that their attitudes toward you are set in stone, that no matter what you do they remain the same. You meet resistance where you long for harmony, coldness where you desire warmth, criticism where you seek understanding. Yet I tell you tonight with absolute certainty: everyone in your world is yourself pushed out. Every person you encounter is the out-picturing of your own assumptions about them. Change your assumptions of people and you will meet them anew.

Consciousness is the only reality. Your world and all that appears within it, including the behavior of every individual, is your consciousness made visible. Man is ever out-picturing that which he is conscious of being. What you assume to be true of another, what you feel to be true about him in the secret places of your mind, is what you meet in the flesh. There is no other. Your particular relationship to another influences your assumption with respect to that other and makes you see in him exactly that which you do see. He is yourself pushed out.

You do not command people to change by argument or outward force. Such efforts only confirm the old assumption. The change must occur first in consciousness. You must rise in the quiet of your own being and assume a new feeling about them. You must become conscious of them as you wish them to be. For consciousness is the resurrecting power, resurrecting that which you are conscious of being in relation to them. When you dwell in the new assumption, when you feel its reality so completely that it becomes natural to you, then the old patterns dissolve and you meet them anew.

Consider how gently yet powerfully this truth operates. You carry on mental conversations with others all day long, even when they are not physically present. In those secret dialogues you are assuming something about them. You are defining them. You are, without realizing it, decreeing their behavior toward you. If those inner conversations are filled with resentment or expectation of rudeness or unfairness, then that is precisely what you will encounter. But when you revise the assumption, when you change the inner conversation and feel them to be kind, cooperative, understanding, or loving, then that new feeling will externalize itself. They will echo the new whisper you have spoken to them in secret.

This is not theory. This is the law of your own being. Your environment and all within it reflects that which you are in consciousness. The people who move across the screen of your life are not independent actors performing against your will. They are yourself pushed out. They bear witness to your assumptions. When you find another difficult, it is a sure sign that your own concept of him needs revision. You are the cause, not he. He is merely the effect, the faithful reflection of what you have accepted as true about him.

Now I ask you to see this with the eye of the spirit. You are awareness itself. You are the I AM that is conscious of being. When you assume a new attitude toward another, you are not pretending; you are actually becoming conscious of him in a new way. You are redefining your relationship in the only place it has ever existed—in consciousness. And because consciousness is the only reality, that new definition must appear in your outer world. You will meet him anew, not as you once knew him, but as you now know him in the secret of your heart.

Let this truth sink deeply into you. Everyone is yourself pushed out. The friend who seems distant, the colleague who appears critical, the family member who repeats an old pattern of conflict—all are yourself pushed out. They live only as long as you are conscious of them in a particular way. Change the consciousness and you change the expression. You do not have to force them or plead with them or manipulate circumstances. You simply assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled in your relationship with them, and the outer world rearranges itself in harmony with that assumption.

Tonight, before you sleep, take one person who has been a source of difficulty and revise your assumption of him. Do not merely think about it lightly. Enter fully into the feeling. Feel him as you wish him to be. Carry on the inner conversation as though it is already so. Hear him speaking words of kindness, of praise, of cooperation. Feel the naturalness of this new relationship. Rest in that feeling until it becomes the dominant mood of your being. Then, in the morning, move through your day in the quiet confidence that you have already changed the assumption. You will meet him anew.

This principle is absolute. There is no exception. Your assumptions about people are creative. They mold the firmament of your experience. What seems to be, is to those to whom it seems to be. If you assume another is untrustworthy, you will find evidence of untrustworthiness. If you assume him generous and understanding, you will meet generosity and understanding. The power is not in the person; the power is in your assumption. Everyone is yourself pushed out.

You may ask, how can this be when people appear to have their own minds and their own wills? I tell you they do not act independently of your consciousness. They cannot. The world is yourself pushed out. All that you meet is the out-picturing of your own awareness. When you truly grasp this, a great freedom descends upon you. You stop trying to change others by outward means and begin the only work that is necessary—the work of changing your assumptions. You become the master of your relationships because you realize that relationships exist only in consciousness, and consciousness is under your control.

Dwell upon this until it lives in you as the most obvious truth. You are not at the mercy of other people’s moods or decisions. They are at the mercy of your assumptions about them. Change the assumption and you change the mood, the decision, the entire behavior. You meet them anew. This is the great secret that has been hidden since the foundation of the world. The kingdom of heaven is within you, and from that kingdom you project the entire world of people and events. Everyone is yourself pushed out.

Feel the majesty of this revelation. It lifts you above all struggle with others. It places in your hands the key to harmony, to love, to cooperation in every area of life. No longer need you be disturbed by anyone’s attitude, for you know that their attitude is your assumption made visible. Revise it in consciousness and the outer reflection must change. This is not a temporary technique; it is the eternal law of your being. Persist in the new assumption and it will harden into fact. You will walk in a world where people reflect the beauty and nobility of your own revised consciousness.

Tonight, as you sit here, realize that every person you have ever known or will ever know exists in your consciousness in some form. They are yourself pushed out. To meet them anew is simply to meet a new you. For there is no other. The I AM within you is the only reality, and all that appears is its out-picturing. When you assume a new feeling toward another, you are assuming a new state of yourself. You are redefining your own being in relation to him. And because you and your father are one, that new definition must express itself.

Let this truth fill you with quiet power. You need not wait for evidence in the outer world before you accept it. Accept it now. Assume it now. Live in the feeling that everyone you meet is already what you desire them to be in your relationship with them. Walk in that assumption and you will discover that the world conforms. People will begin to act differently, speak differently, respond differently. Not because you forced them, but because you changed the consciousness from which they are projected. Everyone is yourself pushed out, and when you change, the out-picturing changes.

This is the way to true freedom in your human relations. You no longer react to what seems to be; you create what is by the power of your assumption. You become the author of your relationships instead of the victim of them. Every encounter becomes an opportunity to express the new consciousness. You meet every person anew because you have first met yourself anew in the secret of your own mind.

I speak these words with the calm certainty that they are true, for they are based upon the eternal law that consciousness is the only reality. Your world is yourself pushed out. Change your assumptions of people and you will meet them anew. This is not something to be believed in the future; it is something to be lived now. Tonight, in this very moment, you can begin. Take one relationship that has troubled you and revise it in consciousness. Assume the feeling of the new relationship until it feels natural. Sleep in that assumption. Wake in that assumption. Carry it with you through the day. You will be astonished at how quickly the outer world reflects the change.

The beauty of this truth is its simplicity. You do not need complicated practices. You need only the courage to assume a new feeling and the faithfulness to persist in it. Everyone is yourself pushed out. Therefore, when you meet another, you are meeting a portion of your own consciousness externalized. Treat that externalization with the dignity and love you wish to see reflected, and it will respond accordingly. Assume the best, think only of that which is lovely and of good report, and the best will appear.

As you go through your days from this moment forward, remember this one eternal fact: the people in your life are not separate from you. They are yourself pushed out. They mirror your assumptions with perfect fidelity. To change the mirror, change the consciousness that is being reflected. Assume nobler concepts of others and you will meet nobler expressions of them. Assume love and you will be met with love. Assume harmony and harmony will be yours. This is the law, and the law cannot fail.

You are the operant power. You are the one who decides what shall be out-pictured. No one else has any say in it because there is no one else. All is consciousness, and you are that consciousness. When you fully accept this, a deep peace settles upon you. You move through the world with quiet authority, knowing that everyone you meet is yourself pushed out, and therefore subject to the loving revision of your own awareness.

Tonight, as you retire to bed, let this truth be the last thought in your mind. Everyone is yourself pushed out. I have changed my assumptions of them, and therefore I meet them anew. Rest in that feeling. Let it permeate your entire being. Tomorrow and every day thereafter, you will walk in a new world because you have become a new man in consciousness. The old patterns will fade, the old difficulties will dissolve, and fresh, harmonious relationships will take their place.

This is the great promise. This is the good news. You are not bound by the past behavior of others. You are not at the mercy of their seeming independence. They are yourself pushed out, and you are free to push out a new and nobler expression of them by assuming a new and nobler feeling toward them. Do this faithfully, and you will discover for yourself that the world is yourself pushed out. Change your assumptions of people and you will meet them anew.

My friend, let this realization sink into the very depth of your being. You are the cause of all that appears in your world. Everyone, without exception, is yourself pushed out. In this knowledge lies your complete freedom. In this knowledge lies your power to transform every relationship. Tonight you have heard the truth. Now live it. Assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled in every human contact, and watch as the outer world conforms to your inner assumption. You will meet every person anew, for you have first met yourself anew in the secret of your own consciousness.

This is the eternal truth. This is the law. And this law is your very being. Accept it. Live it. And your world will be transformed. Everyone is yourself pushed out. Change your assumptions of people and you will meet them anew.