When confronted with any human problem, instead of laboring for an improved human condition, turn from the picture and realize the presence of the divine Spirit in you. This Spirit dissolves the human seeming and reveals spiritual harmony, though to sight this harmony will appear as improved human health or wealth. When Jesus fed the multitude, it was his spiritual consciousness of abundance that appeared as loaves and fishes. When he healed the sick, it was his feeling of the divine Presence that appeared as health, strength, and harmony. This may all be summed up in Paul’s words: “Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.” We are living in a spiritual universe, but the finite sense has set a picture before us of limitation. While thought is on the picture before us – “this world” – we are engaged in the constant effort to improve or change it. As soon as we lift our vision – take thought off what we shall eat and drink and wear – we begin to behold spiritual reality which appears to us as improved beliefs, but which really is more-appearing of reality. This more-appearing reality brings with it joys untold here and now, pleasures beyond our wildest imagination and the love of all with whom we come in contact, even the love of those who do not know the source of the new life we have discovered. “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you.” “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God . . . Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth . . . But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
Joel S. Goldsmith
The Infinite Way