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But through the study of Scripture and the practice of its teachings, Goldsmith realized that a Presence was with him, counseling, sustaining, and leading him into greater spiritual awareness. Following that realization, he traveled throughout the world, teaching others to know this Presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoldsmith says, \"Every person who has known dissatisfaction, incompleteness, and frustration will someday learn that there is only one missing link in this entire chain of harmonious living. That is the practice of the presence of God - consciously, daily and hourly, abiding in some great spiritual truth of scripture, and it makes no difference which scripture: Christian, Hebrew, Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, or Moslem.\" If we begin with practicing the presence of God, it leads to an inner stillness that makes it possible to meditate. Goldsmith sets forth for the reader how to practice the presence from the moment we awaken to the moment we retire for sleep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo Goldsmith, harmonious living is all a matter of consciousness. When we have the right consciousness, we do not want things, but we express the very things which formerly we sought. So, instead of a change of circumstances, what the seeker needs is a change of consciousness. \u003cem\u003ePracticing the Presence\u003c\/em\u003e helps the seeker make that change by opening consciousness to the life by grace. In clear and direct language, Goldsmith shows that by constantly and consciously practicing the presence of God in every experience of our daily life, the struggles of existence pass and harmony is established in every department of our lives. \"Seek neither health, nor wealth, nor fame, nor fortune,\" the author writes. \"Seek first the realization of this inner kingdom and be a beholder as these outer things are added.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51316547027167,"sku":"9780874910001","price":18.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/rvqjXs452P9780874910001.webp?v=1788324713"},{"product_id":"love-gratitude-paperback","title":"Love Gratitude - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLove Gratitude (1952) is a collection of two essays by Joel S. Goldsmith, a mystical teacher, spiritual healer, and writer. Goldsmith was the creator of a set of principles called \"The Infinite Way,\" which taught that man's nature was to be one with God and to express His infinite power and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoel S. Goldsmith (b. 1982, d. 1964) was born in New York City to non-practicing Jewish parents. He began his career as an apprentice in his father's import business, which gave him the opportunity to travel extensively. The great poverty and suffering that he encountered throughout the world, along with the horrors of war that he experienced as a Marine during World War I, set him on a search for universal truth. He began to study spiritual texts, including those of ancient Greece, Southeast Asia, and Aramaic-speaking cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile returning home from an international trip in the 1920s, Goldsmith contracted pneumonia on the ocean crossing. A Christian Science practitioner among the other passengers is said to have healed him. Soon after, Goldsmith found strangers approaching him on the street, asking for healing and prayer, which he was able to provide. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoldsmith turned to the Christian Science Church for explanations about this new healing ability. He remained with the church for 16 years but eventually grew disillusioned with organized religion. After leaving Christian Science, Goldsmith began writing his own thoughts and developing his spiritual philosophy. But even as his books grew in popularity, he resisted any attempts to organize his views into a formal religion, which he felt would obscure the original meaning of his spiritual message. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis work is a compilation of two of Goldsmith's essays, titled Love and Gratitude. Through seven short sections, Love explores how love flows around us and through us. We can \"Open the avenues of Love through each other by not looking to each other for it but by looking to God for it.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen we expect something in return for an expression of love, we demonstrate only human love, a poor facsimile of the real thing. But when we expect no return for the outpouring of our love, when we accept that \"whatever of Love you express is God expressing Itself and so you need not expect a return from it, from that time you enter an entirely new consciousness of life...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second essay, Gratitude, teaches that gratitude, like love, is \"God expressing Itself through man as man.\" Goldsmith argues that it is impossible to express gratitude \"without expressing some degree of God while you are BEING grateful, for Gratitude is of God...not of man.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe often think of gratitude as feeling appreciation for benefits or blessings. But as gratitude is not of man, \"Gratitude is really a form of God activity or God expression. It is, therefore, true that ONLY God can express Love...ONLY God can express Gratitude. We can only be the vehicles through which God pours Itself as Love or as Gratitude.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGratitude is said to have been a divine message that was delivered directly to Goldsmith. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe principles taught in Love, Gratitude are part of Goldsmith's \"Infinite Way,\" his spiritual and religious philosophy. While he wrote several books on the subject, there is still no organization or formal structure surrounding his teachings, in keeping with his wishes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376718741727,"sku":"9781684931910","price":9.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/7OC9J3Smuv9781684931910.webp?v=1789221776"},{"product_id":"love-gratitude-paperback-1","title":"Love Gratitude - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e2011 Reprint of 1952 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. JOEL S. GOLDSMITH (1892-1964), was an important teacher of practical mysticism, and devoted most of his life to the discovery and teaching of spiritual principles which he founded and called \"The Infinite Way\". \"Love Gratitude\" is Goldsmith's treatment of the exercise of love and gratitude from the perspective of the \"Infinite Way.\" Included are chapters on \"The Exercise of Love,\" The Source of Love,\" \"Love knows No Limitations,\" \"Love is Supply,\" \"Forgiveness,\" and others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376724836575,"sku":"9781614271055","price":10.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/hjK851cmWj9781614271055.webp?v=1789221792"},{"product_id":"the-art-of-meditation-paperback","title":"The Art of Meditation - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany books have been written about inward prayer, or meditation, but Joel Goldsmith's classic, \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Meditation\u003c\/em\u003e, presents meditation not as a theory, but as a joyous and rewarding experience. The book begins with these words: \"Most men and women are convinced that there is a divine Power of some sort operating in human affairs, but they are not sure what it is, nor do they know how to bring this divine Presence and Power into daily experience.\" In \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Meditation\u003c\/em\u003e, Goldsmith shows the reader the way, and it is through meditation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoldsmith says that on the whole, the world has no knowledge of God as the living Power and Presence with Whom we are one. If it did, its anguish, wars, sin, and death would vanish. But, he says, individuals can learn the nature of God and how to contact God. He writes: \"Christ buried in the tomb of the mind will not come forth and do works, but Christ risen in our consciousness, Christ raised from the tomb through meditation and communion - that is the miracle worker of the ages.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Meditation\u003c\/em\u003e explains how this inner Presence, also called \"the Christ,\" can be realized and can operate in daily life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile many people pray for the purpose of getting something, Goldsmith explains that we should enter meditation without ulterior motive: \"Any meditation that has within itself a single trace of a desire to get something from God or to acquire something through God is no longer meditation.\" He presents meditation as a turning within and listening. At some moment in that quietude, when human thought is stilled and the noise of human living is hushed, the God-experience comes in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Art of Meditation\u003c\/em\u003e gives the reader careful instructions about how to undertake the beautiful spiritual practice of daily meditation. Goldsmith says that the purpose of this book is \"to help students practice the art of meditation by which the Word takes root, so that they come into an actual awareness, an actual consciousness of living in the Spirit.\" The object is to reach the state of consciousness revealed by Paul: \"I live yet not I, Christ liveth my life.\" Then God appears as the wholeness, the abundance, the harmony, the peace, and the joy of our experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the best known volumes of Goldsmith's work, \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Meditation\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the four foundational books in the Infinite Way teachings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51380242579679,"sku":"9781939542670","price":18.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/K6GtfPtxcU9781939542670.webp?v=1789275700"},{"product_id":"the-thunder-of-silence-paperback","title":"The Thunder of Silence - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoel Goldsmith studied the spiritual literature of the world and he writes, \"Insofar as I have observed from my study of the spiritual literature of the world, the truth stated in this book has never been fully revealed before, yet it is the absolute basis for true spiritual living.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Thunder of Silence\u003c\/em\u003e is based on the principle that there is an inner Grace available to all that does not operate through or by physical might or mental powers. Most people are not aware of this Grace, but when It is consciously realized, it will bring into expression everything that is necessary to our unfoldment. But, Goldsmith says, there is a price: this Grace operates only when we are willing to relinquish faith in anything and everything less than God - even faith in the \"God\" the world thinks it knows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first part of \u003cem\u003eThe Thunder of Silence\u003c\/em\u003e, Goldsmith presents the vision of this spiritual way of life and invites the reader to come into the awareness of the abiding Presence within. In the second part of the book, he treads confidently into the often puzzling subject of mind, answering the many questions that always surround that topic. The whole secret, says Goldsmith, lies in \"making the transition from a thinking human mind to a mind at rest in a state of awareness.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the third part of the book, Goldsmith gives the reader an illumined interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount, which reveals the innermost secrets to attaining the realization of the Presence within. Effortlessly relating the Infinite Way principles to this extraordinary teaching of Jesus, Goldsmith works extensively with its challenging passages and reveals their deep meanings. He shows how practicing these ancient principles can help us to live in the world, but not of it. If we are fed by meditation in the blessed Silence that thunders with Truth, he says, we can live by the grace of God as the Light of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpeaking about \u003cem\u003eThe Thunder of Silence\u003c\/em\u003e, Goldsmith says, \"It is a radical book. It will blow sky-high concepts of God that have been built up over the centuries.\" But he cautions: \"Readers of this book cannot expect that the mere reading of it will enable them to live by its revealed principles. Those who feel a thrill of recognition in their first reading should make this book their constant companion day and night until their materialistic state of consciousness begins to yield.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Thunder of Silence\u003c\/em\u003e will surely be a great help to spiritual seekers who want to reach that state of consciousness in which they can truthfully say, \"I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51380243169503,"sku":"9781939542694","price":18.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/OzblKCi2rM9781939542694.webp?v=1789275702"},{"product_id":"the-infinite-way-paperback","title":"The Infinite Way - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003ePlace of publication from publisher's website.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51380278624479,"sku":"9789562916028","price":10.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/TgAIGgfqdZ9789562916028.webp?v=1789275786"},{"product_id":"the-infinite-way-hardcover","title":"The Infinite Way - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003ePlace of publication from publisher's website.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51380279705823,"sku":"9789562916202","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/DrORAPVzU89789562916202.webp?v=1789275789"},{"product_id":"spiritual-interpretation-of-scripture-hardcover","title":"Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoel Goldsmith's \"Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture\" takes us beyond the normal metaphysical Bible interpretations into a deeper realization of the Spiritual Truth contained in the Holy Scriptures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51380615676127,"sku":"9781638232278","price":26.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/HZ7Eb-jSdh9781638232278.webp?v=1789279414"},{"product_id":"class-lessons-with-joel-goldsmith-paperback","title":"Class Lessons with Joel Goldsmith - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection of tape transcripts represent the most pure form of Joel Goldsmith's teaching of the message of the Infinite Way. Most of Joel's writings were constructed from the transcripts which comprise his audio recordings. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contents: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The True and False Sense of \"I\", \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The God of Our Lives, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Realized God, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Understanding the Body, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Secret of the Healing Principle, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e How to Pray, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Seek Knock Ask, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Above and Beyond Thought or Thing, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Nature of God as Love, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Garden of Eden - Neither Good Nor Evil, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Infinite Way, Origin and Principle Symbolism, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Concepts Individual Discovery of Truth, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The God Soul - Mind - Body Specific, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Principles and Application, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Treatment and Law to Grace, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contemplation, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Develops the Beholder, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Healing Principles, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Attitude and Altitude of Prayer, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Attaining \"That Mind\", \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e God Made This World For Men and Women, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e God is Only in the Still Small, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Voice Grace, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Not Dependent on Thought or Deed, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Temple of God and the Hidden Manna, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Ten Second Meditations, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Continuing Infinite Way, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Healing Principles, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Nature of Truth, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Instructions for Teaching the Infinite Way, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e God, Prayer Infinite Way Prayer\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51459145269471,"sku":"9780979311932","price":16.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/4fA2LoO7Rn9780979311932.webp?v=1790362612"},{"product_id":"conscious-union-with-god-hardcover","title":"Conscious Union with God - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf you think that there is some new truth to be learned humanly, you will be disappointed because there is not a single new truth in the entire world. 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