The Reading Room

CHAPTER OF THE MONTH
Our Study Series for 2025 focuses on how to bring divine truth into our daily, lived experience. On the first day of each month we will feature a new chapter available to read online. Included with each chapter is a Supplemental Reading Guide, available as a downloadable PDF, featuring related readings and audio-listening suggestions. Supplemental Reading for this chapter, and for previous chapters, can be accessed by clicking on the tabs below.
October, 2025
Chapter of the Month
The Art of Meditation
Chapter Two
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The Purpose

"It is not really we who pray or meditate at all; the Spirit meditates within us, and we simply open our consciousness to let the Spirit reveal our need and its fulfillment. Therein is the secret."

Joel Goldsmith
The Art of Meditation
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Chapter Two

In this chapter Joel teaches that the aim of meditation is to receive divine grace: an inner awakening that then naturally expresses as health, right relationships, and creativity. Meditation is not a tool for acquiring things or improving the outer self; it is the practice of opening our consciousness so “the Spirit meditates within us.” The work is essentially one of surrender — cutting away personal desires so only one longing remains: to know God — and allowing the Christ-presence to do the rest.

"Gradually we go deeper and deeper until we find ourselves centered in God. We are not thinking any more: thoughts are being thought for us, ideas are being crystallized through us, impartations of the Soul become apparent to our awareness."

Chapter of the Month
There is no featured chapter for December, 2024. Please check out our Archives for past featured books and join us again in January as we begin reading Living the Infinite Way, one of the four foundational books of The Infinite Way teachings.









Supplemental Reading
for
The Art of Meditation
Chapter
Chapter Two
-
The Purpose
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!
October, 2025
Supplemental Reading
There is no featured chapter for December, 2024. Please check out our Archives for past featured books and join us again in January as we begin reading Living the Infinite Way, one of the four foundational books of The Infinite Way teachings.









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!
There are no archives for the current book yet. Please check back next month.
Supplemental Guides for Living the Infinite Way:
August, 2025
July, 2025
June, 2025
May, 2025
April, 2025
March, 2025
February, 2025
January, 2025
Supplemental Guides for Practicing the Presence:
November, 2024
October, 2024
September, 2024
August, 2024
July, 2024
June, 2024
May, 2024
April, 2024
March, 2024
February, 2024
January, 2024
Supplemental Guides for Awakening Mystical Consciousness:
December, 2023
November, 2023
October, 2023
September, 2023
August, 2023
July, 2023
June, 2023
May, 2023
April, 2023
March, 2023
February, 2023
January, 2023
Chapter of the Month User Guide
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