The Reading Room

CHAPTER OF THE MONTH
Our Study Series for 2023 focuses on awakening the true Self. On the first day of each month we will post a new chapter available to read online. Included with each chapter is Supplemental Reading, available as a downloadable PDF, featuring related readings and audio-listening suggestions. This chapter will be available until the last day of the month. Supplemental Reading for this chapter, and for previous chapters, can be accessed by clicking on the tabs below.
May, 2024
Chapter of the Month
Practicing the Presence
Chapter
Four
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The Infinite Nature of Individual Being

"Let us be ever alert to avoid any egotistical sense that God is fulfilling you or fulfilling me..."

Joel Goldsmith
Practicing the Presence
,
Chapter
Four

As we reach chapter four of our monthly series, we stand as it were on the sidelines of our life; we recognize that we were conceived as human beings and “as human beings, we are under some law, whether it is a natural law or a law of materia medica or theology.” These laws have power in our experience “until we consciously realize…” that Spirit is our true identity. This chapter offers specific and invaluable practice: “Let us take every detail of our life—our body, our food, our business, our home—and consciously make this transition” to where we are no longer subject to human “laws.”  “There is a power governing us, caring for us, protecting us, maintaining and sustaining us…I have now come out and become separate.” Through this practice we find a living fulfillment.

"Meditation is an invitation for God to speak to us or to make Himself known to us; it is not an attempt to reach God, since God is omnipresent. The Presence already is."

Supplemental Reading
for
Practicing the Presence
Chapter
Four
-
The Infinite Nature of Individual Being
These supplements are downloadable PDFs, containing additional reading material intended to support your study of each Chapter of the Month. These Supplemental Reading guides will remain available indefinitely. If you missed a month of study, check the Archives tab for previous month’s guides.

Click on the cover to download the PDF. We invite you to share these Supplemental Reading guides with others!
May, 2024
Supplemental Reading Archives

These supplements are downloadable PDFs, containing additional reading material intended to support your study of each Chapter of the Month. The Supplemental Guides will remain available indefinitely. Click on the cover to download the PDF. We invite you to share these Supplemental Reading guides with others!
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