Our Sabbatical Periods 2/5
To meditate for something or about something that has to do with your human world is to ensure the defeat of your meditation. Continue reading Our Sabbatical Periods 2/5
Tag: God’s Grace
Between Two Worlds 4/4
This is what we are seeking in this age, but you must know that what you are seeking must take you back to creation and birth, so that you can understand all that takes place in all of the years following. And then you will know that it is a spiritual truth that we are on earth to glorify God, that God may be glorified on earth; that His kingdom may be the earthly kingdom, the earthly kingdom may be His kingdom, for these must be one. Continue reading Between Two Worlds 4/4
Practicing the Presence
In practicing the presence of God, we turn over the days and the nights to God. Eventually we turn over our household, our finances, our business, and the driving of our automobiles to God, even the driving of other drivers. Yes, we even place them under God’s grace. Gradually by this practice of the Presence, it becomes a simple matter to meditate because now, as we sit down, we automatically find ourselves in the midst of an inner quiet and an inner rhythm. Continue reading Practicing the Presence
Attainment of the Contemplative Life (3/5)
Once you personalize God, you separate yourself from God’s Grace. The moment you impersonalize by realizing the universal nature of God, and the equality of God’s Grace and bestowal, then you place yourself in the position of praying for your enemies. In other words, knowing the Truth equally about friend or foe, or Greek or Jew, or white or black, or Oriental or Occidental, you are knowing a universal Truth, and you are bringing yourself into a universal principle. Continue reading Attainment of the Contemplative Life (3/5)
The Tree Of Life (1/5)
That is why in prayer almost all prayer is a waste of time. Well, let’s not put it that badly, just ninety-nine percent of it. Ninety-nine percent of all prayer is a waste of time. The reason for it is that ninety-nine percent of all prayer is an attempt to get something for one’s self or for another – in other words, to add to one’s ego, by virtue of one’s own powers, even if it is the power of prayer. Afterward then we can take pride in, “Oh, my prayers are so effective,” or “I have access to God,” or “I understand how to receive God’s grace.” Again, it is a feeding of the ego. Continue reading The Tree Of Life (1/5)
Contemplative Meditation (5/6)
Infinite Way Letter August 1956 By Joel Goldsmith Part 5 of 6 CONTEMPLATIVE MEDITATION What Is Religion? The following is the text of my second talk given to devotees of Anandashram, on December 9th, 1955: We have learned that religion has its beginning in India and spread out from India to the East and to the West. Now we ask: What is religion? What is the religion that was given to us in the beginning, when the hearts and Souls of men opened themselves to God for light? The study of the many scriptures that comprise our spiritual literature reveals that religion is a release—a … Continue reading Contemplative Meditation (5/6)
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