This book is a collection of lectures given by Neville Goddard focusing on reactions.
Reactions can either enslave our lives or, conversely, give us freedom.
Through this book, we can observe our reactions and learn how to change them.

If you have a hidden attachment to living in the mud of self-pity and blame, those feelings will spill out into your world.
But if you renew your mind structure and live in a heavenly feeling of harmony and love, your world will change.
--- p.20

Stand on your own two feet with confidence through these teachings.
You will never again feel the urge to rationalize your failures.
--- p.30

Don't wait until you get really strong.
If you feel weak in any way, boldly shout, “I am strong.”
If we continue to persist like this, this assumption will become a solid reality.
No one can take your name in vain.
Because that name is I AM.
--- p.35

If you don't have a thirst to go beyond your current state of consciousness, you won't be able to embrace greater things. If you love your current state, you won't be able to rise from it, and you won't.
Without the infinite realm of states, life would have no meaning.
--- p.40

Until you separate yourself from the states in which these thoughts arise, they will continue to repeat the same experiences in your life. So, carefully observe the unpleasant and negative thoughts that are bothering you and replace them with new ones.
--- p.52

There are three ways to pluck out the trees of wrong, conventional thinking from your mind and let God see you: observe things as they are without judgment, do not identify with them, and offer up what you previously believed to be yourself as a sacrifice.

--- p.56

The biggest mistake most students of truth make is that they keep building and then postpone entering and living there.
As you enter the state you desire, feel the desired states surrounding you as if your prayers had been answered.
Then become one with it to the point where your thoughts can flow out naturally from that state.
Continue to see the world from that state.
Then it will become a solid reality.

--- p.66

All life's problems can be solved by changing your consciousness.
There is not a single exception.
A state of consciousness produces a corresponding effect, and if this state of consciousness does not exist, the effect cannot be produced.
The most foolish person is one who expects a stable life while recognizing his insecurity.
Conversely, a life of insecurity cannot be given to someone who walks with the perception of stability.
--- p.80

This teaching is not for the faint of heart.
It is not for those who want to run away from life or point the finger of blame at others.
You must continually test yourself to find Christ in you, the hope of your glory.
I dare say that Christ is your “I” calling all people and all circumstances to you.
--- p.92

The love of imagination sleeps in the flesh.
Shake up the love that is you by claiming that your heart is Christ.
Ask for the pearl of great price, for it is the key that opens the storehouses full of heavenly treasures.
If you have the mind of Christ, you can no longer think of unlovable and negative things, and you will no longer have the desire for revenge or retaliation.
--- p.116

You, the imaginary being, are the sum total of all your responses to life.
This reaction is the only cause of the events you are experiencing and can explain your life.
Are you unhappy with your world? Then change your reaction to life.
Life becomes easier when you are brutally honest with yourself and acknowledge that your reactions are created by you and are being reflected back at you.
--- p.124

A sick person is simply aware that he is so.
Let the sick say, “I am well,” let the hungry say, “I have plenty,” let the anxious say, “I am at peace.”
Then their righteous (correct) consciousness will make what they perceive into reality.
--- p.136

We must overcome John's condition by turning our gaze inward and training our inner mental attitude.
This is your destiny.
You are destined to ascend Jacob's ladder, with its countless states, step by step, to the higher reaches of your being, and awaken within yourself.

--- p.146

These words are all true.
But truth by itself does nothing.
It must be applied to life.
Truth unapplied is like a lamp without oil, and truth applied to life is like a lamp filled with oil that never runs out.
--- p.162

The choice (and its consequences) is yours and only you can make it.
The day you can become the "me" as an observer, seeing the seer and the thing being seen as two separate entities, as you observe your reactions, you will find that you can enter any state and create these into an external reality.
Then you will know that all the many mansions of your father's house are yours.
--- p.178

In the past
I worked hard to change others, believing that they needed to change.
I thought that if they changed like this, the world would be a little better.
And then, because I am in them and they are also in me, and we are one, I now awaken and make myself divine and in doing so transform them into divine beings.
The only person you need to change is yourself.
--- p.190

The purpose of this teaching is to awaken Christ, who is dreaming various dreams in man, and to bring Christ into the realm of our self-consciousness, into the conscious realm of humanity.

--- p.206