I will listen as though I heard what I want to hear. I will look as though I am seeing what I want to see

and you listen as though you heard

And with them I listened as though I heard and looked as if I saw what they wanted to see, and the thing became true in their world.

So I say to you, “I would like so and so. I am too close to the picture, so would you now exercise the divine art and hear so and so for me?”

You actually hear him as though you heard him.

then put upon that tone the word that you want to hear and having put it upon it, listen and do not move until you hear this tone conveying these words

I simply hear what I want to hear from him.

and there she listened and she listened until her whole body became still in hearing only what she wanted to hear

Well, you listen attentively as though you heard and you will really hear

So when you sit down and you predetermine what you want to hear and you listen until you hear it

So we can sit quietly in the darkness and simply listen as though we heard the good report that we want to hear.

I will hear the very man who told me “No, and that’s final” and hear him tell me yes, and a door opens.

you will hear as coming from without what really you are whispering from within yourself

So we go to the end of the matter and we listen just as though we heard, and we look as though we saw

If I hear only good for others and trust what I hear as though I heard it

by listening as though we heard and by looking as though we saw, actually hear voices and see scenes from within ourselves that are otherwise not audible or visible

we must steady our attention to observe the world as it would be seen by us were our prayer answered

the assumption of the wish fulfilled should make you see the world mentally as you would physically were your assumption a physical fact

Imagine, then, that in this depth you are seeing and hearing what you want to see and hear until your attention is exclusively occupied by the imagined state.

He hears what he wants to hear. He sees and hears only the good.

to listen attentively, as though you heard, is to create

I would listen as though I heard him