Joseph Murphy - Realize Your Desire

Realize Your Desire

Realize Your Desire

Dr. Joseph Murphy

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CONTENTS

D esire is the gift of God. Browning said, Tis Thou, God, who giveth, tis I who receive. Desire pushes man. It is the goal of action. It is behind all progress. Desire for health, happiness, true place, abundance, and security, all these are messengers of the infinite within you saying to you, Come on up higher. I have need of you.

Desire is behind all progress. It is the push of the life principle within you. It is due to desire that we jump out of the way of an oncoming bus. We do this because we have a basic desire to preserve our life. The farmer plants seed due to his desire to attain food for himself and his family. Man builds airplanes and spaceships due to his desire to collapse time and space and explore the world.

Desire is the push of the infinite telling us of something which, if accepted by us, will make our life fuller and happier. The greater the expected benefit from the desire, the stronger is our desire. Where there is no expected benefit, gain, or advancement accruing, there is no desire. Consequently, no action is found.

Failure to realize our desires to be, to do, and to have over a long period of time result in frustration and unhappiness. You are here to choose happiness, peace, prosperity, and all the blessings of life. Your desire enables you to say, This is good, therefore I choose it. However, this is negative, so I reject it. All choice implies the perception of something preferable over what is rejected.

The idea which some schools of thought have of annihilating and suppressing desire is disastrous in its consequences. If man succeeded in this, good and evil would be alike to him, for nothing has any power to raise any desire in him. He would become dead to all feeling and to all motive of action.

Your desire means you choose one thing in preference to another, and where desire is extinguished, no such capacity to choose can exist. Troward, author of many mental and spiritual textbooks, points out Indian devotees, who, in pursuance of their resolve to crush out all desire, both for good and evil alike, became attenuated human forms, hopeless wrecks of what were once living men.

Judge Troward points out that extinction of desire means apathy, no feeling, and no action. Desire is the cause of all feeling and all action and is the moving principle of the universe. Desire is the creative power. It must be channeled and directed wisely. Desire in its fulfillment takes place in your own mind.

There are no evil desires in the true sense. For example, if youre poor, you desire wealth. If youre sick, you desire health. Health would be your savior. If youre in prison, freedom would be your savior. If youre dying of thirst in the desert, water would be your savior. You may desire love, companionship, or perhaps true place. The realization of your desire is your savior.

You may misdirect or misinterpret your desire which wells up within you. The man who desires wealth may, in his ignorance, fulfill his desire by killing a banker or robbing a store. This is misdirection of his desire, and he finds himself in jail and charged with murder.

Teach a man that there is an infinite intelligence within him which created the universe and all things therein contained, and it can fulfill all his desires, and he overcomes a sense of opposition and frustration. Mans desire for food is legitimate and normal, but killing someone in order to get a loaf of bread breeds violence, opposition, guilt, and self-destruction.

There is a power within man which will lift him up, set him on the high road to happiness, health, peace of mind, and the realization of his fondest dreams, without depriving any other person of his blessings.

A man who was broke, out of work, and frightfully frustrated came to one of my lectures some time ago and listened to the four steps in prayer. He went home and applied them. He had never heard a lecture on the mind, but he said, This makes sense.

He made a list of three things he wanted. You might call them material, but they were his needs, and he was entitled to them. The items on the list for this man were true place, an automobile, and all the money he needed. He chose these concrete things to see if his thoughts were things. He wanted to prove to himself that the idea of the thing was the thing itself.

What is an automobile? Isnt it a spiritual idea outside your door? Supposing all the motors in the world were destroyed by some holocaust. Couldnt an engineer draw a new design, and wed roll them off by the millions? Where do you suppose the automobile is? Isnt it in the mind of the engineer?

Every single thing you look at came out of the invisible mind of man or the invisible mind of the infinite. Thats where wealth is, and health, and everything else.

I said in the lecture, The idea was the reality back of the form. Just like an idea of a book, which Im writing. Where is it? Its in my own mind.

He established a definite method of working and practiced it conscientiously every day, sticking to it long enough to give it a fair chance. This man knew that you do not learn to swim after one or two attempts. He prayed for true place as follows:

I know infinite intelligence responds to me. It is now revealing my true talents to me. I am aware of my hidden talents. I am receiving a wonderful income. I know the idea of true place and its manifestation are one in divine mind. I follow the lead which comes into my conscious, reasoning mind. Its impossible for me to miss it. It comes clearly, distinctly, and I recognize it.

Within two weeks from the day his experiment began, he signed a contract for a job in San Francisco. He gave thanks and rejoiced in the law of his own mind. He then went on to the next objective, a new car. He didnt have the money to buy it. He said to me, I know I have the idea of a car. It is real, and Im going to remain faithful to it. It must manifest.

He won a car in a raffle contest. He knew the secret of the subconscious, that if he identified himself mentally and emotionally with the idea, the subconscious would bring it to pass. He was very thankful.

His next request was more wealth. Each morning and evening, during his prayer period, he gave thanks for Gods riches circulating in his life, claiming that his idea of wealth was fulfilled. He fell in love with a wealthy widow in San Francisco, and she financed his new business.