The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: 30 Best Quotes from the Book

A Joseph Murphy Classic

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I’ve just finished reading ‘The Power of Your Subconscious Mind’ by Joseph Murphy, and it’s been a transformative experience. This book has enlightened me about the connection between spiritual wisdom and the incredible potential of our subconscious mind to shape our lives.

Here are some standout quotes from this book:

1. Just keep your conscious mind busy with the expectation of the best.
2. The only path by which another person can upset you is through your own thoughts.
3. The law of life is the law of belief.
4. Every thought is a cause & every condition is an effect. Change your thoughts & you change your destiny.
5. You grow old when you lose interest in life, when you cease to dream, to hunger after new truths, and to search for new worlds to conquer.
6. The subconscious mind is ruled by suggestion, it accepts all suggestions — it does not argue with you — it fulfills your wishes.
7. All you have to do is unite mentally and emotionally with the good you wish to embody.
8. Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace, and goodwill, and wonders will happen in your life.
9. Trust the subconscious mind to heal you. It makes your body, and it knows all of its processes and functions. It knows much more than your conscious mind about healing and restoring you to perfect balance.
10. Never finish a negative statement; reverse it immediately, and wonders will happen in your life.
11. Your subconscious mind is like a bank, a sort of universal financial institution. It magnifies whatever you deposit or impress upon it whether it is the idea of wealth or of poverty.
12. Know that you can remake yourself by giving a new blueprint to your subconscious mind.
13. When your desires and imagination are in conflict, your imagination invariably gains the day.
14. Remember, it is not the thing believed in but the belief in your own mind that brings about the result.
15. Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine guidance, right action, and all the blessings of life.
16. Your subconscious mind controls all the vital processes of your body and knows the answer to all problems.
17. Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire. Your desire is your prayer. It comes out of your deepest needs and it reveals the things you want in life.
18. Trying to accumulate wealth by the sweat of your brow and hard labor is one way to become the richest man in the graveyard. You do not have to strive or slave hard.
19. You must give to receive. You must sow the seed before you can reap the harvest.
20. You are the captain of your soul and the master of your fate.
21. Your subconscious never sleeps. It is always on the job. It controls all your vital functions. Forgive yourself and everyone else before you go to sleep, and healing will take place much more rapidly.
22. Your subconscious mind is the builder of your body and can heal you. Lull yourself to sleep every night with the idea of perfect health, and your subconscious, being your faithful servant, will obey you.
23. The way to get rid of darkness is with light; the way to overcome cold is with heat; the way to overcome the negative thoughts is to substitute the good thoughts. Affirm the good, and the bad will vanish.
24. Your subconscious mind does not argue with you. It accepts what your conscious mind decrees. If you say, ‘I can’t afford it,’ your subconscious mind works to make it true. Select a better thought. Decree, ‘I’ll buy it. I accept it in my mind.
25. Think good and good follows. Think evil and evil follows. You are what you think all day long.
26. All your experiences, events, conditions, and acts are the reactions of your subconscious mind to your thoughts.
27. The subconscious mind takes the nature of the mental picture impressed upon it and works accordingly.
28. You are like a captain navigating a ship. You must give the right orders, thoughts, and images to your subconscious which controls and governs all your experiences.
29. Know that in your deeper mind are Infinite Intelligence and Infinite Power.
30. Remember, you have the capacity to choose. Choose life! Choose love! Choose health!

These quotes capture what the book is all about how thinking positively, harnessing our subconscious mind, and having strong beliefs can help us achieve our dreams.

Thanks for reading.