The Foundation of Mysticism Quotes

“The mind will be still if there’s no warfare, but there’s always warfare if you have two powers, if you have good and evil, if you have desires, if you struggle to attain or achieve something.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“Years ago it was revealed to me that it is nonsense to pray for anything at all, because it isn’t possible to get anything through prayer. The principle behind that is this: God is the substance of all form. Therefore, if you haven’t God, you haven’t the form; but if you have God, you have all the forms that God constitutes.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“The very minute you are not depending on bread alone for your life, you are spiritual. The very minute you know that money isn’t supply, that money is only one of the forms that supply takes for our temporary use—the minute you know that—you’re spiritual.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“Always remember, there are three states of consciousness: the material, the mental, and the spiritual.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“You might as well get used to the idea: All the evils of this world are nothing but pictures in the mind. When you know this, they begin to dissolve.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“Too many metaphysicians have spent too many years trying to make a spiritual God increase their human sense of good instead of being willing to abandon the human sense of good for the spiritual reality.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“You have to turn to that within-ness in the deepest kind of humility, not with any belief at all that you are the child of God. Of course you are in your essence, but so was the prodigal son when he was eating with the swine. He was still the son of the king, heir to everything, and that didn’t do him much good. Neither does our heirship in Christ do us much good until by contact with this center within our own being we re-establish that oneness.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

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― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“Do you know what we take with us as we leave this plane? We take our spiritual enlightenment, our knowledge of good. This is stored up where neither moth nor rust can corrupt, and we take it with us. That becomes the foundation of our next experience.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“There can be no fear of this infinite, universal God. When you study scripture and see how the Hebrews lived their lives in fear of God’s punishment, and then turn to the New Testament and realize that the Master gave as one of his reasons for being on earth, the forgiveness of sin and sinners, you know there is no reason under the sun for continuing to fear punishment for your sins of omission or commission. As a matter of fact, even if some of those sins should be continuing into our present experience, even if we have not reached the spiritual elevation in which all sin has departed from us–and who has?–even then we are to know we are not under the law of punishment but under the law of grace, under forgiveness, under God’s grace, which not only wipes out the penalty for sin but wipes out the capacity for sin. Sometimes sin lingers on even after the penalty has been wiped out, but it isn’t any different from the chicken that runs around after its head is cut off. It’s just fooling us for a little while; it’s dead but it doesn’t know it. So, too, our past is dead, even if some sins are temporarily being continued in the present. Why is our past dead? Because we acknowledge there are not two powers operating. There is only one.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“Do you know that Albert Einstein expected to go to his grave keeping secret all that he knew about the atom? He pledged to himself that he would never reveal his knowledge to anyone, not because he didn’t understand the great good that would come to the world through right use of the atom, but because he knew that in the wrong hands it would become destructive and produce evil results.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“There are unimportant people in this world, but they are people who believe they are unimportant and that’s what keeps them so.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“We are establishing an understanding that the spiritual principles which we learn—the principles of spirit—are our protection, our health, our safety, our security, and our peace. And these principles will bring freedom to every individual on the face of the globe as the world awakens to them.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“If you don’t accept it as reality, it cannot function against you. That’s the secret. “As ye sow, so shall ye reap.” If you believe there is a sinful person, then sin can be committed against you. If you believe there is a poverty-stricken person, poverty can knock at your door. If you believe there is disease and death, you can experience it.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“There is a God maintaining and sustaining the integrity of this universe, and it is perfect except when you see it through a glass darkly, or when you see it through a sense that has been to some extent mesmerized by the belief in good and evil.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“What happens then? The hypnotism is dissipated and you are living a spiritual life, a God life. God was doing its job all the time. God was always manifesting its spiritual perfection as you, but only by seeing through a glass darkly did you see yourself in sin, disease, death, lack, and limitation.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“as scripture says, “God is too pure to behold iniquity.” Certainly God wouldn’t tolerate it today and then heal you of it tomorrow. That would make of God a human being, and not even a very nice one.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“There is such a complete sense of separation between God and the man of earth that the two never come together. That is why, in order to live under God’s grace, what Paul said must necessarily follow: “The spirit of God must dwell in you, otherwise you are not under the law of God, neither indeed can be.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“There is nothing more definite than this, that “I of my own self can do nothing”; that I of my own self am nothing; that I of my own self have nothing. “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“But denying that you are a human being, and stating that you are already perfect and already spiritual and already have the mind of God, is merely a form of affirmation.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“realize there are some teachings that claim we are completely perfect and spiritual now, and therefore all of this would be unnecessary. In our spiritual identity that’s true; but it certainly isn’t true of our humanhood. And it is our humanhood, or to our humanhood, that we are trying to bring light so that we may outgrow this humanhood”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“So I do know this: Whatever you release, you are released from. What you cling to is that which binds you. You are your own liberator.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“Violating these laws does not bring the wrath of God upon you, it brings the wrath of your sin upon you. You are never punished for your sins, never. And you never will be. You are punished by your sins, and you can’t avoid it.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“Don’t try to feel anything. Be it. Don’t feel it.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“You must remember what I have said to many students who told me or wrote to me that they’re discouraged because they don’t feel spiritual. My answer has always been: “And you never will.” If you meet people who say they feel spiritual, don’t believe them; they’re lying to you. There is no such thing as feeling spiritual, any more than there is such a thing as feeling moral.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“Do you know that every person on earth would have supreme wisdom if there weren’t this mesmeric activity keeping it from them? In other words, this belief in two powers? Without that, there is only one infinite consciousness, manifesting itself as individual consciousness. Remember this: God-consciousness is your individual consciousness, and all that God is I am; all that God has is mine: “Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“You can, instead of trying to use God or make God your servant, submit yourself to God; be God’s child, God’s instrument through which God’s glory is made manifest on earth. Then, let God’s glory flow through you. It will never be your glory, regardless of how beautiful you are or become, or how worthy or worthwhile.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“We were under the law when we were under Moses. We came under grace when we came under Christ Jesus. But this grace cannot act except through our recognition and acceptance of it.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“If we are to escape from the limitations of ordinary human existence, if we are to escape from the laws of matter and the laws of mind, we are only going to do it through learning some form of treatment such as this, and by reminding ourselves each day that God is the only law-giver and God is Spirit.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism

“You are no more outside of God’s government than the stars, the sun, the moon, the tides, the fish swimming in the sea or the birds flying in the air.”
― Joel S. Goldsmith, The Foundation of Mysticism