IW Morsel – No Interest
God has no interest in your goodness and will not reward it, and God has no interest in your sins and will not punish them.
Beyond Words and Thoughts
By Joel Goldsmith
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From – Realization Of Oneness
By Joel Goldsmith
Excerpt-Chapter 1 / Pure Being Page 18
If you have not learned from the message of The Infinite Way that the only good you are ever going to receive is from within your own consciousness, then you have failed to perceive the nature of its message and mission, which is that God constitutes your consciousness and that through meditation you must draw forth from within your own consciousness the allness and the fulfillment of life.
Infinity and immortality are made manifest as the consciousness of the individual, and the name of this divine Consciousness, which is our individual consciousness, is I. You must understand that you are not to direct this I, enlighten It, plead with It, or try to be a master of It, but that you are to submit and yield yourself servant to the I of your own being, so that your prayer is that I fulfill Itself as your individual experience, that I be the Grace which is your sufficiency, and then let this I which is your true Selfhood govern your life in Its own way.
When you then go into prayer and meditation, there must be no preconceived idea as to what you want or how you wish your prayer to answered. There must be a complete yielding as you daily realize, “Not my will, but thine, be done.” Do not go to God with your thoughts and do not try to have God fulfill your way, because you will fail. You must go to God, the divine Consciousness of your own being, the very I which you are, with this prayer: “Reveal to me Thy way, Thy will, Thy thought, and this, then, will be my way, my will, and my thought.”
THE VERY ORDEAL(S) YOU HAVE GONE THROUGH OR ARE GOING THROUGH may have been absolutely necessary to break the hypnotic world belief of karma (rewards & punishment for acts from previous incarnations).
I NEVER BELIEVED IN KARMA – didn’t know what it was or why I should care about it – and still don’t, except for this: it’s a very strong, long cherished false world belief that needs more than ignorance of its so-called power and presence to destroy its overall influence in our lives.
We need no longer be afraid to face the dastardly claims of Karmic law in order to adequately dispense with the hold it has had through the centuries. Its antidote lies in truly knowing (a) its claims and (b) the spiritual fact that it has no place whatsoever in the realm of Spirit, God. Karma can make its bold assertions all it pleases but the bottom line – Truth – is that it’s the figment of a cosmic over-ripe imagination.
Floria, Thank you. In my younger days, I read many of the Catholic Mystics (because that’s where the primary Christian material is found). (They often speak from their religious tradition, which you overlook.) St. Teresa’s works, John of the Cross, Catherine of Genoa, and Catherine of Siena, Padre Pio, Francis of Assisi, etc. The writings of Jeanne Guyon, the works of Meister Eckhart and Evelyn Underhill. Read “The Power of Now”. Then, don’t forget all the writings of the Buddhist mystics. There is so much available. Usually one thing leads to another. <3
I THINK I HAVE SOMETHING very important to tell anyone who is about to step up their level of Spiritual understanding and application. Let’s say it’s you for example. You discover there’s a wonderful revelation awaiting you as soon as you demonstrate (FOR YOURSELF) that you can handle it.
It comes to you as clear as crystal that you could shore up a few things in the mental realm by focusing a little closer on God. You do so and some areas of wavering drop off. Wow does that ever feel so right and good.
Here’s the caveat: you just gave up some stuff that had been quite comfortable in the “human” realm. You haven’t worked these things through – humanly speaking – NOR SHOULD YOU HAVE TO. But when you suddenly return 100% to the human realm, your so-called body-mind isn’t ready for you. It wants the old you back and you fail to realize the necessity of declaring to it that the former you doesn’t exist anymore (it never did, but that’s for later). If you give in to its pressure you’ll recreate the old you and drown out your newly attained inspiration.
All you need to do is to turn emphatically on the former you – just look at it very, very intently. You’ll see very quickly that in fact it never did exist. With love, RJS
This Body Is Not Me
We are earthbound and we are landlocked until we break out by going upward. Only as our vision goes upward out of this body, out of this world of force, do we get up into a free strata, a free realm, where we’re no longer body locked, landlocked, earthbound, but where we are free souls. You know that all of this world, except the mystics or those on the mystical path, are locked up in their bodies. Their body is the most real thing to them. They’re fastened into it and can’t escape from it, and that’s where their misery comes—being landlocked inside of the body, being earthbound inside of the body and having no freedom.
The very first freedom that an individual attains is when they can look in the mirror and say that this body is not Me. This body is not Me. I am Me. I, I am Me. I am Joel. Not this body, this body isn’t Joel. I am Joel, and if the doctors searched from head to foot they couldn’t find Joel inside of this body for I am not here.
And that was the great mystical statement: “He is not here. He is risen”. That’s the symbology of the Resurrection. We are not entombed in this body. In our Resurrection we rise out of the tomb of this body and realize I am Joel. I am not body. I am Joel and I am not in a body. They could not search this body from top to bottom and find me for I am not here. I do not live in a body. I live in Consciousness. I live in God. I live and move and have my being in God therefore I fill all space. I am here and I am there and I am everywhere. I am where God is and God is where I am for we are one, and that one is not limited to time or to space or to place. And that’s why the materialist fears death because they think that with the end of the body, there comes an end of me. How foolish! I’m not in the body. I never was in the body. I won’t live in the body and I won’t die out of the body for I will never be in the body. And therefore, there is no need to fear death because death is just checking the body at a weigh station while we keep going on.
From – Tape 344 Side 2
1960 Lausanne Class
“Prayer – The Upward Dimension: Earthbound – Landlocked
by Joel Goldsmith
WHEN NOW YOU SEE liberty and unconditional love in the very same verses you once saw law and bondage, what changed, you or the Scripture?
~Don Keathley
If you discover about sixteen issues clamoring for attention in your mind – none of which you’ve chosen – there’s one word that will melt them all away.
It’s a very short word but power-packed with all the authority obtainable in heaven or on earth.
It distinguishes reality from unreality, the infinite from the finite, spiritual from carnal.
That little word is “I”. That’s it, just I.
Bear in mind that God = I Am = Spirit = Soul = Mind = Omnipresence = Christ = Omnipotence = Knowledge = Life = Love = Infinity = Eternality = YourName = I.
It’s easier to simply ponder or meditate on I.
A mystic is one who has moved from mere belief “systems” or belonging systems to actual inner experiences.
Without a vital spiritual experience ~ we are left with mere “head knowledge”.
This mystery of transformation involves surrendering ~ a yielding of our selves and all we Think we know..because our preconceived ideas, doctrines & theologies won’t fit into the amazing experiences of actually encountering the Divine..
~Kathleen DesVoigne