The Fabric of Being (2/5)

Remember that in your first year of piano lessons you’re not expected to give any concerts in this hall; and so in your first months of working with this principle of non-power, you’re not expected to overcome all of the problems of your life or those of your family or friends; you’re expected only to begin, to make a start because it is not your intellectual agreement with this principle that does the work, but the attaining of the actual consciousness of this truth; and that comes with practice.
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The Essence Of The Infinite

Now in our work we handle every claim: disease, sin, false appearance—that is brought to us not as a person but as the presentation of the carnal mind in one form or another. And then recognize that since the carnal mind is not ordained of God, it is not power. It has no power, is not a law, has no law and therefore must fall by virtue of its own nothingness. By impersonalizing evil in that way we have found that most of the claims yield quickly and thoroughly because we have not touched a person. We have not tried to change a person or psychoanalyze a person. We have known the truth which is that all evil is a belief in two powers. Continue reading The Essence Of The Infinite

Good Friday: The Crucifixion of Personal Sense

       There we see the principle of Good Friday, the principle of the crucifixion of personal sense, a crucifixion of the belief that we of ourselves have qualities of good or quantities of good. But with that crucifixion, comes the resurrection in the realization, “I am nothing, but I can give you all.” Why? Because “the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.” Continue reading Good Friday: The Crucifixion of Personal Sense

The “I”within (2/4)

Above all things, from this moment on we must never declare that anything is beyond our ability; we must not accept any sense of limitation; we must not accept the belief that any good is beyond our capacity or reach, or that any heights are too high to attain, for there are no limits to the I which I am after I have made contact with It.  It becomes literally true that I live yet not I; Christ, the infinite, the unlimited, the unbounded, the unfettered lives my life. Continue reading The “I”within (2/4)

Contemplative Meditation (3/6)

Infinite Way Letter August 1956 By Joel Goldsmith Part 3 of 6 CONTEMPLATIVE MEDITATION The Middle Path – continued Freedom is a quality enjoyed when we have overcome duality by refusing to entertain any sense of iniquity or destruction, or beliefs in a presence or power apart from God. We are clothed and in our right mind when we are clad with the liberty of the Sons of God. As long as there is a sense of duality in an individual’s consciousness he is subject to the discords of the world, but they will not come nigh the dwelling place … Continue reading Contemplative Meditation (3/6)

Contemplative Meditation (1/6)

Infinite Way Letter August 1956 By Joel Goldsmith Part 1 of 6 CONTEMPLATIVE MEDITATION The Middle Path Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is, God. Matthew 19:17 The universe of God’s creating is within us. God’s love permeates, enfolds, and upholds this universe and all that is therein. All that exists is of God, and God is the good unto us and unto all creation. This is a spiritual universe, and in it there is nothing good nor evil. Let us make this lesson a meditation, whereby we prepare ourselves to be receptive and … Continue reading Contemplative Meditation (1/6)

Higher Meditation

IW Morsel – Human Mind Cannot Know God cannot be known with the human mind, but if we listen and are still, in that stillness, God reveals Itself. Right where we are God Is. From – The Art of Meditation By Joel Goldsmith P. 40 From – Tape 604-1 1951 Second Portland Series A Higher Meditation – Part 1 By Joel Goldsmith This is Joel in Portland. We’re still in the midst of the Second Portland Series. The subject tonight is a higher meditation, and the thought for this came from a note in my notebook. How can we look … Continue reading Higher Meditation