Joel Goldsmith Quotes

#1. Stepping into the "shoes" of someone's life other than my own, great movies such as Cinema Paradiso, scenic landscapes, the work of Daniel Day-Lewis, the books of Joel Goldsmith, traveling, doughnuts, ice cream.

Reggie Lee

#2. As the campfire burned to an ashy bowl of red-hot embers, the boys would ramble on, piling up horror upon horror, like cordwood stacked under a blood-red-barked madrona tree.

Gregg Olsen

#3. Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument, and dote upon a text that provides the nutritious pemmican on which scholars love to chew.

Robertson Davies

#4. When we reflect on our past sentiments and affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects truly; but the colours which it employs are faint and dull, in comparison of those in which our original perceptions were clothed.

David Hume

#5. The Infinite Way is not a message, it is an experience.

Joel S. Goldsmith

#6. To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

Simone De Beauvoir

#7. Man is always seeking a power, a power to overcome something or destroy something; and therefore he is not living in the awareness of God, because in the realization of the presence of God there is no need to overcome, to destroy, or to do anything.

Joel S. Goldsmith

#8. You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

#9. I think J.S. Bach's music stands among humankind's greatest accomplishments. For me, Bach's music is not only as good as music gets, but also as good as it gets, period
as good as existence, reality, life and the world.

Andrew W.K.

#10. as humans we have become separated with our source~

Joel S. Goldsmith ~Rising in consciousness~

Joel S. Goldsmith

#11. I awaken in the morning with confidence, rejoicing in whatever work is given to me to do. Whatever that work is, I do it, not in order to earn a living or in a sense of performing an onerous duty; but, with joy and gladness, I let it unfold as the activity of God's expression through me.

Joel S. Goldsmith

#12. Every skill, every talent, every capacity, and every ability of the mind are really the Soul-action made visibly tangible.

Joel S. Goldsmith

#13. The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.

Thomas Jefferson

#14. God is life; and in that life which is God there are no years ... The human sense of life is not your real life.

Joel S. Goldsmith

#15. It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

#17. To illustrate: Everybody in the world knows the word "God," but there are few people in the world who know God. For most of us God has remained a word, a term, a power outside the self; God, Itself, has not become a living reality except to those few people who are known as mystics.

Joel S. Goldsmith

#18. Prayer is the Word of God which comes to you when you are silent enough, still enough and expectant to receive it.

Joel S. Goldsmith

#19. Life is not at the mercy of matter.

Joel S. Goldsmith

#20. The only place I've found peace in my life is in church. I owe my life to God.

Darryl Strawberry

#21. Of the Sun, Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire, The African Origins of Civilization

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#22. Minds were running along similar lines. Will adjusted

John Flanagan

#23. Release from fear, worry, and doubt leaves us free to function normally, healthfully, and confidently.

Joel S. Goldsmith

#24. There is no judgment upon you; there is no memory of the past; there is only the understanding of this moment.

Joel Goldsmith

#25. We must have an America in which White men and women can live and work, in their homes and in the streets of our cities, without fear.

George Lincoln Rockwell

#26. Never be afraid to tell me anything," he whispered against her hair. "No matter how ashamed you might feel. I'll never judge you, Rachel. I love you.

Maya Banks

#27. I look around. You'd have to be out of your fucking mind to write, as Marcus did, that Black History Month is a ploy to lever more entitlement money out of Congress, but the ho-hum nonresponse of the white crowd reading this bit of transparent insanity is, to me, even weirder.

Matt Taibbi