Joel S. Goldsmith > Quotes

“Your prayer will not be an asking or a seeking for any thing; it will be an asking and a seeking and a knocking for more light, greater spiritual wisdom, greater discernment.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Art of Spiritual Healing

“To illustrate: Everybody in the world knows the word “God,” but there are few people in the world who know God. For most of us God has remained a word, a term, a power outside the self; God, Itself, has not become a living reality except to those few people who are known as mystics.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Art of Meditation

“The safest course for an Infinite Way student to follow is to admit freely that he does not know how to pray, how to go out or come in, or what to pray for, and then open himself in receptivity to that still small Voice which is within, closer than breathing, and let It pray through him, let It utter Its voice, let It have Its way. If you are praying for someone else, let It inform you, let It inform your patient or your student.

Do not try to be Omniscience yourself in your praying, because you can be Omniscience only when you are completely absent from the personal sense of self, when you are absent from any knowledge, when you have attained that place of unknowing in which you definitely know that you do not know, and do not even want to know, but are willing and open to receive spiritual wisdom, spiritual guidance, spiritual strength.

When you are praying or meditating for someone else, do not try to transfer thoughts to him, do not try to know what is right for him or best for him, but sit in a state of complete receptivity, and then let the Father function as your consciousness. You may not receive any message for your patient or student, but you do not need any. He will receive it, and he will receive it not from you, but from the Source of you. Your consciousness acts only as the instrument of contact, and you yourself may never know what the message is, or even whether any message has been received”
― Joel S. Goldsmith

“Be willing to be used by God; be willing to be used by Truth. Be willing to be an instrument through which Truth reveals Itself, but do not attempt to use God. Never try to use God, Truth. If you understood the nature of God, never would you pray to God for any thing.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Art of Spiritual Healing

“God expresses God, and that expression appears as you.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Art of Spiritual Healing

“as humans we have become separated with our source~

Joel S. Goldsmith ~Rising in consciousness~”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, Consciousness Transformed

“Immortality is attained in proportion as personal sense is overcome, whether here or hereafter. As we put off the personal ego and attain the consciousness of our real Self – the Reality of us, divine Consciousness – we attain immortality. And that can be achieved here and now.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Infinite Way

“The kingdom of God is within us; the whole of the Godhead is to be found within our individual being, not in holy mountains nor yet in the temple at Jerusalem, but within us.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Art of Meditation

“through prayer, you can be reunited with your Source. Your prayer will not be an asking or a seeking for any thing; it will be an asking and a seeking and a knocking for more light, greater spiritual wisdom, greater discernment.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Art of Spiritual Healing

“The mind will be still if there’s no warfare, but there’s always warfare if you have two powers, if you have good and evil, if you have desires, if you struggle to attain or achieve something.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“This listening is the art of meditation, in the learning of which we come to a place of transition where truth leaves the mind and enters the heart. In other words, there is no longer merely an intellectual knowledge about truth; but truth becomes a living thing within our being.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Art of Meditation

“In this wise, do we understand that there is not a spiritual universe and a material world, but rather that what appears as our world is the Word made flesh, Spirit made visible, or Consciousness expressed as idea.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Infinite Way

“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, Practicing the Presence

“What is happiness? George Bernard Shaw writes: “This is true joy in life: the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture

“The very minute you are not depending on bread alone for your life, you are spiritual. The very minute you know that money isn’t supply, that money is only one of the forms that supply takes for our temporary use—the minute you know that—you’re spiritual.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“Years ago it was revealed to me that it is nonsense to pray for anything at all, because it isn’t possible to get anything through prayer. The principle behind that is this: God is the substance of all form. Therefore, if you haven’t God, you haven’t the form; but if you have God, you have all the forms that God constitutes.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“The crucifixion of the self is accomplished when there is nothing left for which you wish to pray. To”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Infinite Way

“Spiritual Student! Rejoice as the outer building tumbles down, for the inner Temple is to be revealed. The mind of the individual seeking help is the Christ-mind –awaiting recognition. The man who has his being “in Christ” finds his capacities and abilities in Soul –not in the brain, body, or muscle.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Infinite Way

“Always remember, there are three states of consciousness: the material, the mental, and the spiritual.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“The reason that you cannot feel any progress in yourself is that you cannot feel spiritual. There is no such thing as a person’s feeling spiritual. That is as impossible as feeling that you are honest or feeling that you are moral.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, Beyond Words and Thoughts

“You might as well get used to the idea: All the evils of this world are nothing but pictures in the mind. When you know this, they begin to dissolve.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“There can be no fear of this infinite, universal God. When you study scripture and see how the Hebrews lived their lives in fear of God’s punishment, and then turn to the New Testament and realize that the Master gave as one of his reasons for being on earth, the forgiveness of sin and sinners, you know there is no reason under the sun for continuing to fear punishment for your sins of omission or commission. As a matter of fact, even if some of those sins should be continuing into our present experience, even if we have not reached the spiritual elevation in which all sin has departed from us–and who has?–even then we are to know we are not under the law of punishment but under the law of grace, under forgiveness, under God’s grace, which not only wipes out the penalty for sin but wipes out the capacity for sin. Sometimes sin lingers on even after the penalty has been wiped out, but it isn’t any different from the chicken that runs around after its head is cut off. It’s just fooling us for a little while; it’s dead but it doesn’t know it. So, too, our past is dead, even if some sins are temporarily being continued in the present. Why is our past dead? Because we acknowledge there are not two powers operating. There is only one.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“Too many metaphysicians have spent too many years trying to make a spiritual God increase their human sense of good instead of being willing to abandon the human sense of good for the spiritual reality.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“Whether you want to believe it or not, the truth is that in your humanhood you could not have come to a spiritual teaching. ... You are on the Path now only because at some period of your life you were inwardly touched, and you found yourself turned in a direction which you could not have taken by yourself, ...”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, Beyond Words and Thoughts

“The very moment that any form becomes a necessity in our experience, we are placing our dependence, our happiness, and our joy in that, instead of in the Infinite Invisible which is the cause of the form, and we are idolaters. We”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, Practicing the Presence

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― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“There is no judgment upon you; there is no memory of the past; there is only the understanding of this moment.”
― Joel Goldsmith

“The song of the Soul is freedom, joy, and eternal bliss; the song of the Soul is love to all mankind; the song of the Soul is you.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Infinite Way

“You have to turn to that within-ness in the deepest kind of humility, not with any belief at all that you are the child of God. Of course you are in your essence, but so was the prodigal son when he was eating with the swine. He was still the son of the king, heir to everything, and that didn’t do him much good. Neither does our heirship in Christ do us much good until by contact with this center within our own being we re-establish that oneness.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“Do you know what we take with us as we leave this plane? We take our spiritual enlightenment, our knowledge of good. This is stored up where neither moth nor rust can corrupt, and we take it with us. That becomes the foundation of our next experience.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism