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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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"Everything in the teaching of The Infinite Way is an unfoldment, a
statement or restatement of the teaching of the Master, Christ Jesus."
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The simplicity of the message of The Infinite Way lies in the truth that
you have only one enemy. And it is not carnal mind! It is the belief that
carnal mind is power, and when you overcome the belief that it is power, it is
finished as far as you are concerned. Then you do not have to demonstrate
supply; you do not have to demonstrate health; you do not have to demonstrate
happiness; you do not have to demonstrate companionship: you demonstrate only
the realized presence of God. All that you need is God's grace realized, and It
fulfills Itself in all things. ~Joel S Goldsmith
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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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