Meditation has for its purpose admitting the light which is God, letting loose the light that is stored up within us. The kingdom of God, that is, spiritual light, is within us, and we must open out a way for the light, hidden within, to escape. Meditation, therefore, has nothing to do with overcoming sin, disease, lack, or unemployment; it has nothing to do with stopping evil men from continuing their evil practices. Meditation has to do with us as individuals, realizing and releasing the light that is within. In the attainment of that, the darkness disappears, and the darkness is any and every form of human discord. The darkness and its forms vanish the very moment light is introduced.
We do not claim that we know how to heal disease, but we do know how to sit and realize the impotent nature of anything other than God’s presence. “Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above.” There is no power in darkness; there is no power in the forms in which darkness appears: sin, disease, or lack. Therefore, we do not go into meditation to overcome these; we do not go into meditation to destroy any of the evils of this world. We go into meditation that we may realize:

‘I and the Father are one. Where I am, God is, and because of God’s presence, there is peace, harmony, wholeness, and completeness. The place whereon I stand is holy ground, for in the presence of God there is the light of truth.
God’s presence is my sufficiency in all things. In God’s presence is fulfillment, and I am here in meditation to realize this truth and to be a transparency so that the kingdom of God within me may be released in consciousness, thereby dispelling every appearance of darkness, every appearance of discord and inharmony. If I realize and feel the presence of God, everyone within range of my consciousness, receptive and responsive to God, feels it, and feels the effects of it.’

Every time that we attain, in meditation, an awareness, a feeling, of God’s presence, we have released the light into our home, and then there are no dark places there any more: no hidden errors, no sins, no diseases, no lacks. Where there is light, darkness does not abide; where there is Spirit, there can be no form of mortality. To realize God is to realize freedom and to attain a complete release from fear.

‘I have meat the world knows not of. I have within me the realization of a divine Presence, of a spiritual Light; and this is my bread, my meat, my wine, and my water. This is the law unto my life; this is the Presence that is within me always and goes before me.’

We need not voice this; in fact, we must not voice it. “Pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.” In secret, we realize God’s grace and His presence; in secret, we realize the spiritual nature of the function of God. In proportion as we feel an inner release, an inner confidence, we can be assured that we have attained some measure of spiritual light; and then we go about our daily tasks, whatever their name or nature may be, and leave the rest to that realized presence of God.
We have been told by the Master to be in the world, but not of it. This means that unless we sit down for a meditation several times during the day, we will soon find that we are again embroiled in “this world”—its fears and its discords.
Recently, something came to my attention that bore witness to the evil nature of some of the men in positions of power who are manipulating the world, and for a moment it brought a sense of inner disturbance. But almost simultaneously the Voice spoke and said, “But there are not any evil men: man is spiritual.” That brought a complete release from being in and of the world, or of being under the influence of its fears and worries. Did that realization remove these evil men from the world? No, it removed them and any effect they might have from my consciousness as well as from the consciousness of those who are attuned to my consciousness.

J. S. Goldsmith: Living by The Word. Chapter; Let There Be Light; Meditation Releases The Light Within; Kindle location: 840-877