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Professor of English 1973 M.A., New York University 1989 Ph.D., New York University Linguistics

Persistent contact > permanent presence

Advanced spirituality

OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE
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Merely making the initial inner contact with the Presence, like spiritualizing our thought with metaphysical, scriptural, and spiritual writings, is also but a step along the way because that contact isn’t a permanent Presence in our Consciousness yet. Persistently returning again and again, silently and secretly, within ourselves to reestablish this contact will in its own time produce the REALIZATION of that Presence. There’s an indescribable (words/thoughts wise) difference in our perception of our world when this occurs.
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John F Drewery Sr.

The still, small voice RJS

Be still

THE STILL SMALL VOICE
Please don’t think of me as a weirdo but
I hear it all the time!
Oh yes, I still hear the yammerings
Of the world (flesh) mind
But I promise you there’ll soon be a time
I’ll be reporting a cessation of the latter!
True, the timbre of the two voices
Is not altogether dissimilar
But the feeling … oh the feeling within me
There’s no mistaking them there!

You too can have this heavenly
Ever-present Friend, Companion, Guide
Who will walk with you & talk with you.
You can feel the smile in its voice.
And when you wander off your path
You can still hear, albeit increasingly
Faintly “Come back, come back to Me,”
‘Cause ‘Me’ is none other than
Your very own precious Still Small Voice.
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No unsolved problems JSG

Joel Solomon Goldsmith

No Unsolved Problems in Consciousness
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There are no unsolved problems in Consciousness, and this same Consciousness which is our individual consciousness is the only power necessary to establish and maintain the harmony of all that concerns us. It is our turning within that brings forth the answer already established. Our listening attitude makes us receptive to the presence and the power within us. Our periods of silent contemplation reveal the infinite force and constructive energy and intelligent direction always abiding in us. Thus we discover in our mental realm our Aladdin’s Lamp. Instead of rubbing it and wishing, we turn within in silence and listen – and all that is necessary for the harmony and success of life flows forth abundantly, and we learn to live joyously, healthfully, and successfully – not by reason of any person or circumstance outside ourselves, but because of the influence and grace within our own being.
Joel S. Goldsmith
The Infinite Way

Never a failure

Joel Solomon Goldsmith

NEVER A FAILURE !!
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Now let us go within and learn that there is never a failure or a disappointment in the whole realm of our consciousness, nor will we ever find delays or betrayals when we find the calm of our own Soul and the presence of an infinite Principle governing, guarding, guiding, and protecting every step of our journey through life.
Joel S. Goldsmith
The Infinite Way

Dealing with all issues JSG

Joel Solomon Goldsmith

We bind ourselves by believing that there is a power outside of us – a power for good or for evil. All power is given to you. And this power is always good because of the infinite Source whence it flows. The recognition of this great fact brings a peace and a joy untold, yet felt by all who come within range of your thought. It makes you beloved of men. It brings you recognition and reward. It establishes you in the thoughts of men and becomes the foundation of an eternal good will. Whenever you are faced with a problem, regardless of its nature, seek the solution within your own consciousness. Instead of running around here and there, instead of seeking an answer from this or that person, instead of looking for the solution outside of yourself, turn within. In the quiet and calm of your own mind, let the answer to your problem unfold itself. If, the first or second or third time you turn in peace to the kingdom within, you fail to perceive the completed picture, try again. You will not be too late, nor will the solution appear too late. As you learn to depend on this means for the working out of your problems and experiences, you will become more and more adept in quickly discerning your mind’s revelation of harmony.
Joel S. Goldsmith
The Infinite Way

God constitutes our being

Joel Solomon Goldsmith

We do not have to go anywhere to find God: we carry God within us, not in our mind and not in our body, and yet the kingdom of God is within us. God constitutes our being; God constitutes our life; therefore, our life is as eternal and immortal as God’s life, for there is only one Life. God constitutes our consciousness; therefore, our consciousness is the same consciousness as the consciousness of God. There are not two: there is only one. “I and my Father are one. . . . He that seeth me seeth him that sent me.”
Joel S. Goldsmith
A Parenthesis in Eternity, p.29

When under attack

Under attack

When you’re under attack and people
All around you are acting kinda crazy
It’s actually a good sign coz it means
You’re onto something big.
You must remember to impersonalize.
Emotions are churning and burning
Valued friends listening to gossip.
Hey, you’re in the wrong realm!
The moment you return to Spirit, God,
The Fourth Dimension,
All negativity ceases, Love reclaims you.
Not wishy-washy, pie-in-sky, esoterica.
No, in the fourth realm and beyond,
All the machinations, self-delusions,
Dis-eases and death sentences of
Third dimensional world-thought;
All the lies and half truths disintegrate
Leaving Perfection to peek through
And overtake you at last!

First, last and only concern

Joel Solomon Goldsmith

Let the activity of Truth in your consciousness be your first and last and only concern, and the Christ of you will also reveal Itself in an individual, infinite way. There is no evil. Let us therefore stop the resistance to the particular discord or inharmony of human existence which now confronts us. These apparent discords will disappear as we are able to cease our resistance to them. We are able to do this only in proportion to our realization of the spiritual nature of the universe. Since this is true, it is evident that neither heaven nor earth can contain error of any nature, and therefore the unillumined human thought is seeing error in the very place where God shines through, discord where harmony is, hate where love abounds, and fear where confidence really is.
Joel S. Goldsmith
The Infinite Way

Fruitage must be experienced

Waking up

The producer (cause) of spiritual fruitage in you and me individually is the EXPERIENCE of the Presence. With this, there’s no need of words or thoughts as the fruitage flows forth from individual Consciousness by an act of Grace making it possible for anyone anywhere who’s receptive to the spiritual impulse to feel or have a measure of this EXPERIENCE also whenever they come into the range of the Consciousness of the individual who is ordained by the indwelling Spirit.

Without the EXPERIENCE, all the words and thoughts uttered “ABOUT” it produce no lasting (permanent) fruitage . And this will be demonstrated as little if any spiritual progress for the individual.
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John F. Drewery, Sr.

Christ doesn’t remove your thinking

ACIM

You may still complain about fear, but you nevertheless persist in making yourself fearful. I have already indicated that you cannot ask me to release you from fear. I know it does not exist, but you do not. If I intervened between your thoughts and their results, I would be tampering with a basic law of cause and effect; the most fundamental law there is. I would hardly help you if I depreciated the power of your own thinking. This would be in direct opposition to the purpose of this course.
ACIM