You Must Persist Until You Reach a Higher Level of Consciousness

We are told, “When you pray, believe you receive and you will.” You
must persist until you reach a higher level of consciousness. This
is done when your feeling of the wish fulfilled has all the sensory
vividness of reality. Prayer is a controlled waking dream. If you
are to pray successfully, you must steady your attention to observe
the world you would see were your prayer answered. Steady attention
makes no call upon any special faculty, but it does demand a
controlled imagination. You must extend your senses. You must
observe your changed relationship to your world and trust this
observation.

The new world is not there to grasp, but to sense and touch. The
best way to observe your new state is to be intensely aware of it.
This is done by listening as though you heard voices, and looking as
though you saw the scenes of your fulfilled desire. And as your
attention is focused on the desired state, your outer world will
crumble and, like a new setting of music, all of its discords will
turn into harmonies.

THE MAGIC OF THE IMAGINATION
Neville