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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 “visitto 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 what‘s 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.