The Lexicon
How mind makes reality
Expectation
Expectation is the quiet attitude that bends the future toward itself. It is not idle hope but the settled inner posture of one who already knows the good is on its way, so that the mind leans forward into its arrival. Where belief affirms a truth, expectation lives in the felt certainty that the truth is now becoming visible. The masters teach that the world has a way of meeting us at the level of what we confidently anticipate.
Carried by 40 teachers · across 8 traditions · 14 quotes
To cultivate expectation is to hold the attitude of expectant wonder, to dig the ditches before the rain, to expect a miracle as a daily habit of heart. It works because the subconscious takes the mood of assured anticipation as an instruction and arranges circumstance accordingly. Expectation turns waiting from anxiety into reverent readiness. Seekers who walk in steady expectancy find that doors open just ahead of their footsteps.
In their words
Whatsoever things ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.Mark 11:24 (KJV)
The outer world is a picture of the inner world. If our thoughts are neither strong, happy, nor wholesome we can not expect to express health and strength in the body.Charles Brodie Patterson
They can because they think they can.Virgil
Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.William James