Spiritual consciousness lifts us above every human form of limitation and permits us to enter a larger sense of life, health, and freedom. Where there is spiritual consciousness, there is no bondage to person, place, or thing, and there are no limitations to our accomplishments.
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Meditation is the door to the realm of the Soul, and inspiration is the way. As we learn to take five or ten minutes each morning, noon, and night to sit quietly with a “listening” ear, as we turn within ourselves and learn to wait for the “still small voice,” we acquire the habit of meditation and develop skill in its technique until inspiration possesses us and leads us to the haven of our Soul. This is the beginning of our new birth, and here we learn the new tongue of Spirit. Life begins to have a new meaning.
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Rightly speaking, there is not God and you, but God is ever manifest as you, and this is the oneness which assures you of infinite good. God is the life, mind, body, and substance of individual being; therefore, nothing can be added to any individual, and true prayer is the constant recognition of this truth.

~Joel S. Goldsmith
The Infinite Way

Immortality is attained in proportion as personal sense is overcome, whether here or hereafter. As we put off the personal ego and attain the consciousness of our real Self – the Reality of us, divine Consciousness – we attain immortality. And that can be achieved here and now.
~Joel S. Goldsmith
The Infinite Way
(Putting on Immortality)

SPIRITUAL ILLUMINATION enables us to discern the spiritual reality where the human concept appears to be. Spiritual sense discerns the reality of that which is appearing as concept. The development of spiritual consciousness begins with our first realization that what we are beholding through the senses of sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell is not the reality of things. Disregarding appearances entirely, the first ray of spiritual illumination brings us hints of the divine, the eternal and immortal. This in turn makes the appearance even less real to us, thereby admitting even greater illumination. Our progress Spiritward is in proportion to the illumination which enables us to behold more and more of Reality. Because the human scene is entirely a misconception through misperception, any thought of helping, healing, correcting, or changing the material picture must be relinquished in order that we may see the ever-present Reality.
~Joel S. Goldsmith
The Infinite Way
(Spiritual Illumination)

■ HINDU SCRIPTURE Theirs was the fulness of heaven and earth; the more that they gave to others, the more they had.

■ CHINESE SCRIPTURE And give unto him who is of kin to you, his due, and also unto the poor, and the traveller. And what good ye have sent before your souls, ye shall find it with God.

■ TURKISH SCRIPTURE It is more blessed to give than to receive. . . . Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

■ THE BIBLE As we realize our unity, or oneness, with all creation, we become more loving, gentle, patient, and understanding. Then only are we fulfilling the great teaching, “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” and then only are we glimpsing the kingdom of God, the temple “not made with hands” – the man and universe of God’s creating. It is this spiritual man, the man of God’s creating, who has been given dominion over all the earth.

If you say that God is good, loving, great, all-powerful, you are saying no more than “GOD IS”.
The very word “God” means infinity, love, life, omnipresence, omnipotence.
So why say anything more than “God is”?
The acknowledgement that God is includes all else …
and it saves you from making the mistake
of including a few things that God isn’t!
~Maimonides, 11th cent. Hebrew philosopher