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Bertus:
Go
to God as you would go to your mother.
Joels
meditations in his various writings are NOT intended as formulas
to meditate but are rather examples of spontaneous unfoldments that
can come to you when meditating. One could say that those meditations
serve as example for the student. In the meditation hereunder
Joel compares a visit to God in order to have communion
with God, with a visit to his beloved mother.
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Joel Joels
mother *)
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*)taken
from the movie Joel S. Goldsmith, the man and his message.
More info:
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In
the book The Spiritual Journey of Joel S. Goldsmith
we read how his mother did urge the young Joel to search God.
JOEL:
I can go all the way back and hear my mother
saying,:
''I know whats
wrong with you, Joel. You are looking for God."
I said:
''Mom, how can you
say that? I don't even know if there is a God. '
She:
'Oh but I know that
you are looking for God."
Certainly I was, and this life today is just
the fruition. I came into this world looking for God. You can't tell
it if you look at my first thirty-eight years. It was all locked
up inside of me. I wouldn't have dared tell that to anybody except
my own mother. Later, when I was nineteen, I did tell my mother,
I said:
''I have discovered
you are right. There is a God, but I can't find Him. No matter to
whom I talk, they don't seem to know Him.
She:
''Well, please don't
stop, and when you find Him, come and tell me.
And I hope I am telling her
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Bertus:
Go to God with clean hands -
as you would go to your mother.
Meditation from: 1955 Kailua Study Group.. band 111A - The Realized
Christ
Joel:
if that Spirit
of God dwells in you, it rules out of you all forms of envy,
jealousy, malice, deceit, trickery, dishonesty, immorality, and
so forth, and so forth, and so forth, and so on.
If that Spirit
of God does not dwell in us, it may well be that for one reason
or another that we'll be good humans, but we have no assurance of
our maintaining that, or our neighbor maintaining that beyond
some point of temptation. It is for this reason that I have been
asking our students, and will continue to ask, that they give one
period of their meditation each day to God alone. Not for
themselves, not for their family, not for their business, not for
their patients or students, and not even for peace on earth, but
for God alone.
In other words,
reserve one period for a meditation in which we come to God with
clean hands.
Father,
I seek nothing. I'm not seeking anything for anybody. I am not
come here to accomplish anything or to achieve anything. I'm
coming here in the same spirit that I would go to my mother, were
my mother available: just for a visit, just for a communion, just
for love. The love between me and my mother is of such a nature
that I would love to sit by her or walk by her or sit at her feet
or take a ride. I would love to be in her company. Oh, I don't
mind if it's days, weeks, months, or if occasionally I could have
just two or three minutes of her time alone.
I
want nothing of my mother. I seek nothing, just the joy of being
in her company and feeling that love that naturally flows from a
mother to a son, to a child. That's why I'm here today. You are
the Father and Mother of my being. You are the source of my life.
You are the soul of me, the spirit of me. You are that which
makes me tick.
And
I come in this period just for the joy of communion. I have no
favors to ask, no desires. Just let us pass this moment together
in communion, so that where Thou art, I am, that I remember that
where I am Thou art, for we be one. Just for the joyous awareness
that I am in Thee and Thou art in me. Yes, if it can be, just to
feel the assurance of Your hand in mine, or the touch of your
finger on my shoulder. Thy presence, that's all, Thy
presence.
And you
see, the realized, demonstrated presence of God is the savior of
the world. Now that It's on the field, now that It's here and now
in the midst of us, we don't have to ask It for something,
because now we know It is the all-knowing Mind that already knows
the need of Its universe. It is Itself the divine Love that knoweth
our need before we do, and it is Its good pleasure to give us the
kingdom.
Now we are in
the same position that we would be if we had visited our mother
in this way, and then all of a sudden our mother noticed that we
needed a new suit of clothes and said, "I think you'd better
go downtown and order a suit and send the bill to mother."
And we said, "Oh, I didn't come here for that purpose."
"Oh, I know you didn't, and if you had, I wouldn't have
noticed your need. A little sense of rebellion would have stirred
up in me that you would have come home only because you need
something. I know I felt the purity of your motive in this visit.
Now go ahead and get that suit of clothes."
And so it is
that the moment we have achieved the realization of the presence
of God, we have here the very presence of infinite intelligence,
of divine love, of Christhood. And in that realization there are
no discords, there are no inharmonies, and there is no question
of God sending us out for a suit of clothes: it is God becomes
the suit of clothes. We are clothed with God, we are fed with
God, God becomes the very water and the wine and the bread. And
you see then how it is that we can eat God and drink God and be
clothed in and of God. And God becomes the temple, the household.