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Infinite Way Students of the
Ozarks
Quotes from Joel that guide this group

"Pillar of Clouds"
Matt 6:33
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his
righteousness;
and all these things shall be added unto you.
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"We do not have to go any further than to turn to
the I within to receive impartations of truth and of wisdom from the Source
because that I is one with the Source. In the very chair where we are sitting
are both the Father and the Son - God the Father, and God the Son. We have only
to turn within, and the I which is the Father begins to reveal Itself, Its
truth, Its wisdom." ~Joel S Goldsmith
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"The object of The Infinite Way is to develop
spiritual consciousness, not primarily to produce health out of sickness or
wealth out of lack. Those are the added things, and those who catch even a
grain of spiritual perception are showing forth health, prosperity, and
happiness, and thus they are living more useful lives.
But this is not the goal. The goal is attaining the
spiritual vision so that we can behold God's universe and can commune with Him
walk and talk with Him, live with Him, and learn to live with one another, not
merely humanly because our most joyous human companionships are much more
worthwhile when we have attained a measure of spiritual companionship."
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"The development of spiritual consciousness is the
greatest attainment there is. Only in the degree of this attained consciousness
are we able to see the spiritual forms of God's creating. This has nothing to
do with the development of the mind or with any intellectual powers; it is not
attaining the feeling of knowing more than we knew before: it is a matter of
attaining a depth of inner awareness, an awareness that expresses itself not so
much in words as in feelings."
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"We cannot adopt new ideas while still clinging to
the outworn beliefs of the past: we must be willing to relinquish our old
concepts. That is where the courage comes in, and the daring. It takes courage
to leave behind that which has proved to be unsatisfactory in our experience.
It takes courage to look at ourselves objectively and ask: Have I sincerely
worshiped God? Have I in some measure lived up to my convictions about
God?"
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"We must understand that the message of The Infinite
Way is not to give the world a new teaching, but to give the world an
experience. The Infinite Way is actually a God-experience, a Christ-experience.
The Infinite Way is not its writings, lectures, or classes. These are the
instruments leading us to The Infinite Way, but The Infinite Way itself is the
God-experience." ~Joel
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the only way that the message of The Infinite
Way can be kept pure is for every individual to be responsible to himself or
herself in God, and to be sure that their authority reaches nowhere at all
outside of their own being.
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there must never be an Infinite Way
organization, because the moment there is, there is either an individual, or a
board of trustees, or a board of directors, and then they become the deciding
factor as to where you shall live, and when, and what you shall do.
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"The Infinite Way begins with the revelation that
there is a transcendental consciousness, which in Christian mysticism is called
Christ-consciousness and in Buddhism is called the Buddha-mind. In either case,
what is meant is that there is a consciousness higher than the human mind. This
is not a matter of general knowledge. True, there may be those who accept the
idea that Buddha had that spiritual consciousness and that Jesus had the mind
that was in Christ, but there are not many who understand that this
Christ-mind, or consciousness, is universal to all men, and that it is just as
much yours and mine as it was that of Jesus or Buddha. As long as you believe
there is a God out there separate and apart from your being, just so long do
you personalize God and set up the picture of an entity, identity, or a being
outside of you. God is being, but not a being. God is being you and being me so
to set up a God separate from that Being produces the sense of separation that
keeps us in ignorance. That personalizing of God, personalizing I, is the
'veil' that brings about man's sense of separation from God. Personalizing God
by accepting Jesus as the only Christ also pulls down the "veil." In
fact, the personalization of Spirit is the 'veil.'"
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"The Master had great difficulty in imparting this
idea to the Hebrews who had observed ceremonies, rituals, and holy days, but
who had been given little or no spiritual enlightenment. All their instruction
had been in the realm of the mind and in the observance of outward rites, and
that is not sufficient. Spiritual teaching must enter the heart; it must be in
the Soul: it must be felt rather than reasoned or thought; it must be
intuitively understood. Only then can we take the word I into the sacred and
secret place of the most High and dwell there with It. If we dwell in the
secret place of the most High and abide with that I, let the I abide in us, let
that I flood our consciousness, It will impart Itself to us and say: 'Know ye
not that I am God? 'Be still, and know that I am God'; I in the midst of thee
am mighty. I will never leave you, nor forsake you.'"
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Be assured that if I made any rule that would in
any wise stop the progress of any one of our teachers, that teacher would go
right on developing, if not inside The Infinite Way, then outside it, because
no one can control consciousness. No one can make rules for consciousness. An
individual will break out of any rule the moment his consciousness it prepared
for it
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"There is a tremendous power in the consciousness of
any individual who so attains this inner union as to receive these impartations
of scriptural promises. And by bringing ourselves to those who have attained
some measure of that, we partake in a measure of their Grace. 'I if I be lifted
up shall draw all men' unto that same level of consciousness. We benefit by
each other's realized Grace. Whatever degree of Grace you and I attain, we
share with each other and find it multiplied among ourselves.
'Where two or more are gathered together' in the same
consciousness there is this power felt on even a greater degree. And that's why
it is that so much must be kept out of our consciousness of the world's loves
and hates, of the world's fears and doubts in order that as we come together,
this inflow of the Spirit can find Itself multiplied on earth. Then not only
are we, individually and collectively, a blessing to all around us but to all
those in far places who in some way or other have been led to reach and touch
our consciousness.
Never think for a moment that these people find our
consciousness by any human means. They don't. They are spiritually directed
from within, and they reach out all over the world just as we reach out all
over the world to those who have illumination, and we find ourselves one with
God once again. "
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"Now, it is for this reason that whatever of truth
is revealed to us is something that we must work with within ourselves up to
the point of realization; in other words, not try to share it, not try to heal
somebody with it, not try to teach somebody it, except what we do silently.
Rather, work with it within your own consciousness until you have achieved a
measure of that light or experience, and then from there on, you will be
directed how, when, and where, and under what circumstances to share, to
impart, to reveal. And ultimately you will have a part in God's unfoldment to
human consciousness and you will play that part as practitioner, as healer, as
teacher or lecturer or writer - in whatever way God chooses."
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"The answer, the solution to all problems, is the
realized Christ"
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"Prayer is our contact with God. It is the means
through which God's grace performs Its miracles in our experience. But prayer
must be a listening attitude. It must be a willingness that the Spirit of God
fill us and perform Its functions in us and through us."
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"More and more we must become the spectator or
witness. We must become the beholder of Life and Its harmonies. Each morning we
should awaken with eagerness to watch the new day unfolding and revealing each
hour new joys and victories. Several times each day we should consciously
realize that we are witnessing the revelation of Life eternal, the unfolding of
Consciousness and Its infinite expression, the activity of Spirit and Its grand
formations. In every situation of our daily experience, let us learn to stand
back of ourselves and see God at work, witness the play of Love upon our
affairs, and watch God reveal Himself in all those about us.
Every night we should realize that our rest does not
bring to a close God's activity in our experience, but that Love is the
protecting influence and substance of our rest, that Consciousness is imparting
Its ideas to us even in sleep, that Principle is the guiding law throughout the
night. Nothing from without can enter consciousness to defile, and this truth
stands guard at our mental portals to admit only reality and its harmonies.
Be a beholder, a witness. Watch the unveiling of the
Christ in your consciousness.
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"The student of spiritual wisdom cannot go
through his day, satisfied that he has read some truth in the morning, or that
he is going to hear some truth in the afternoon or evening. There must be a
conscious activity of truth going on all the time. That does not mean that we
neglect our human duties and activities; it means that we train ourselves to
have some area in consciousness always active in truth. Whether we look out at
forms of nature such as trees, flowers, or oceans, or whether we are meeting
people, we find some measure of God in each experience. We train ourselves to
behold the presence and activity of God in everything around us and to abide in
the Word."
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"'I have meat to eat that ye know not of. . . .'
I have bread, wine, water. . . . I am the resurrection. All the power of
healing, redemption, and regeneration is within me.
This is the Master's transcendental teaching.
As human beings, we place our reliance on persons and
things in the outer world, on education, money, bonds, or investments. That man
who has his being in Christ places his entire reliance on Spirit and trusts it
to bring forth all that is necessary in the outer realm. Whenever faced with
some need or desire, let us realize Spirit as the source of its fulfillment;
let us realize Spirit as the law unto it, even the law of multiplication should
that be necessary. Then let us go about our business, whatever it may be,
taking such human footsteps as may be necessary at the moment. This is living a
normal, natural life, but letting the Spirit, the Infinite Invisible, be the
law of it, the substance of it, the cause of it, and the harmonious maintainer
and sustainer of it. In short, we make no change in our present mode of living,
except as the Spirit, Itself, may pick us up and direct us into new
activity."
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"Through the use of scriptural passages, we build
such a consciousness of the ever-presence of the Infinite Invisible that
although we continue to enjoy and appreciate everything in the world of form,
everything that exists as effect, yet never again do we have the feeling that
we need or require anything. Inasmuch as God's grace is our sufficiency, we do
not live by effect alone, but by every word of truth that has been embodied in
our consciousness and by every passage of truth that we have made our own.
Every word of truth must be learned and made a part of our consciousness so
that it becomes flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone, until the past,
present, and future are all bound up in the conscious realization of God's
grace as our sufficiency. In other words, our consciousness of truth is the
source, substance, activity, and law of our daily experience."
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"We, who are practicing the Presence, are of the
few who know what ultimately will save the world. It is above all things the
acknowledgment that no man on earth is our father: There is one universal
Father within us, and united with Him, we are united with every spiritual child
of God throughout the world. Our love for God constitutes our love for the
people of the world. We no longer hate; we no longer fear. We need not punish;
we need not seek vengeance: We need only withdraw into ourselves and
contemplate our oneness with God and with one another."
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"As we go into the healing work, the first calls
will be for what the world calls 'lesser claims,' and in a short time we may
begin to think, 'Oh, I have some understanding,' or 'I am getting results
through my understanding.' If we do, we shall never become successful
practitioners or teachers, because we can never heal through our understanding,
God forbid that God's presence and power should be dependent upon our
understanding!
Healing is an activity of the Christ; it is an activity
of God's understanding. We have been thinking in terms of my life, my health,
my supply, my worthiness, my understanding, and these are not involved at all:
It is God's life, God's health, God's supply, God's worthiness, God's
understanding. The Master made that very clear when he said that of his own
self he could do nothing; it was the Father within; therefore, it was the
Father's understanding. The moment we open our consciousness to the flow of God
and stop all this nonsense about our understanding and our good or bad
behavior, we can be assured of this: The flow of God will erase and purify
whatever of error or deed is in our thought today and will wipe out all penalty
for past infractions. We must come into the realization that it is not our
understanding that does this, but God's, and we must come out from the old
Judaic ideas and beliefs of a God of punishment and reward. God is not a God of
punishment and reward. God is love. God is life."
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