Quotes from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“There is no desire that anyone holds for any other reason than that they believe they will feel better in the achievement of it. Whether it is a material object, a physical state of being, a relationship, a condition, or a circumstance - at the heart of every desire is the desire to feel good. And so, the standard of success in life is not the things or the money - the standard of success is absolutely the amount of joy you feel.”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“your life-and everyone else in the Universe is playing the part that you have assigned to them. You can literally script any life that you desire, and the Universe will deliver to you the people, places, and events just as you decide them to be. For you are the creator of your own experience-you have only to decide it and allow it to be.”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“Life Is Always in Motion, So You Cannot Be "Stuck”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“The only way to consciously deactivate a thought is to activate another. In other words, the only way to deliberately withdraw your attention from one thought is to give your attention to another.”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“It is not your job to make something happen—Universal Forces are in place for all of that. Your work is to simply determine what you want.”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“With your practiced attention to any subject, the Law of Attraction delivers circumstances, conditions, experiences, other people, and all manner of things that match your”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“You are growth-seeking Beings, and as you are moving forward, you are at your happiest.”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“It Is Not about Controlling Thoughts, It Is about Guiding Thoughts”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“Feeling good equals allowing the connection; feeling bad equals not allowing the connection—feeling bad equals resisting the connection to your Source.”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“(Success is about a happy life, and a happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people do not allow the happy moments because they are so busy trying to get a happy life.)”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“This book is about consciously allowing your natural connection to the Stream of Well-Being. It is about remembering who you really are so that you can get on with the creation of your life experience in the way you intended before you came forth into this physical body, and into this magnificent Leading-Edge experience . . . where you fully intended to express your freedom in endless, joyous, co-creative ways.”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“Your true knowledge comes from your own life experience.”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“With enough attention to anything, the essence of what you have been giving thought to will eventually become a physical manifestation.”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“once you expect something, it will come. The details of it may play out differently—but the vibrational essence will always be an exact match.”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“All of your desires, wants, or preferences emanate from you naturally and constantly, for you stand at the Leading Edge of a Universe that makes that so.”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“This is the simple basis of this eternally expanding Universe: • Variety causes contemplation. • Contemplation produces preference. • Preference is asking. • Asking is always answered.”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“That is the optimal creative vantage point: To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeling of impatience, doubt, or unworthiness hindering the receiving of it—that is the Science of Deliberate Creation at its best.”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“are here to experience outrageous joy.”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“Follow your bliss,” for in the steady reaching for bliss, you must surely align with the Energy of your Source. And in that constant alignment, your Well-Being is certain.”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“When you have lived an experience that helps you understand, in an exaggerated way, the very thing you do not want, you also understand, in an exaggerated way, what you do want.”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“you would not want to mask your own feelings, pretending to feel different from how you really feel. For pretending in this way does nothing to change your vibrational point of attraction. The only way you can do so is to change your vibrational offering, and when you do change your vibrational offering, the way you feel changes, too.”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“with an understanding of the Laws of the Universe and some willingness to deliberately choose thoughts, you can, in time, replace all hindering beliefs with life-giving beliefs,”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“Stream of Source Energy flows to you and through you—and that it is you. This Stream flowed before the physical Being that you know as you was born, and it will continue to flow once the physical Being that you know as you experiences what you call “death.” Every living thing, animal, human, or plant, experiences that which is called death, with no exception. Spirit, which is who we really are, is eternal. So what death must be is but a changing of the perspective of that eternal Spirit. If”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“In the same way that your Emotional Set-Points can change from feeling basically good or secure to feeling bad or insecure, your set-points can change from not feeling good to feeling good, for your set-points are achieved simply by attention to a subject, and through your practiced thought.”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“it is not possible to stand still or be stuck, because Energy, and therefore life, is always in motion. Things are always changing.”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“This is a universe of vibration. As Einstein once observed, "Nothing happens until something moves"-that is, everything vibrates to a particular measurable frequency. Break”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“It Is Impossible to Control Conditions That Others Have Created”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“Anything that you give your attention to will become your "truth." The Law of Attraction says that it must. Your life, and everyone else's, too, is but a reflection of the predominance of your thoughts. There is no exception to this.”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“عندما تغير الطريقة التي تنظر فيها إلى الأشياء، تتغير الأشياء التي تنظر إليها”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

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