“We do not take the problem or the person into our silent meditation, but make an effort to have our periods of meditation in which the soul within is completely at rest from all thought of person and thing. When the outer world impinges on our thought, then the reminder comes, “Is this my affair or is it the affair of the Father within?” While we are concerned about that little “I” in relation to an external affair, we are still in the material sense of existence.”

Joel Goldsmith, “Showing Forth The Presence Of God,” Chapter 8, Section: “The Assurance of Divine Guidance.”