Quotes from Joel S. Goldsmith

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.

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.

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.

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.

This listening is the art of meditation

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Always remember, there are three states of consciousness: the material, the mental, and the spiritual.

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.

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.

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, ...

The Infinite Way is not a message, it is an experience.

Release from fear, worry, and doubt leaves us free to function normally, healthfully, and confidently.