‘Silence is a state of receptivity, a conscious awareness of our own being, whether with eyes closed or open, even when washing dishes, pounding a typewriter, or managing an office. Silence is a state of being when conciousness is alert and the ears are open and receptive for that still, small voice. We prepare for that state of receptivity, for that state of conscious awarenss, by going into meditation or into the silence when we awaken in the morning, turning within before we are out of bed, remembering, “I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.”…The Christ means the Spirit of God in man, the Spirit that animated Christ Jesus, and the mind that animates us…Merely to repeat these words of Jesus is meaningless. Too many people are walking up and down this earth making affirmations and repeating quotations, and nothing happens. Statements are of very little help;they will doing for us. It is the conscious realization of the presence of God that does the work; it is coming to that place where we can feel that Christ within, and when we feel that, we have achieved the conscious of the presence of God.
The World is New,Joel S. Goldsmith 1962,pgs.16-17
Tags: affirmations, Christ, conscious awareness, Jesus, presence of God, Silence
