Infinite Way Writings

Weekly Passage - for week of 5/6/07



"The Christ does not come where there is a great deal of the personal self--selfishness, self-pity, or self-righteousness. Usually, the Christ comes to one who, in some measure, is willing to say, 'This is not so much a matter of me or mine. It is a matter of transcending this human experience and rising above the joys as well as the sorrows of sense.' In that degree of spiritual consciousness, the Christ is born. Jesus, the Christ, was born in a manger. The manger of old was the least desirable part of the entire establishment. The manger was outside. It was used by cattle and other domestic animals, and not as a place for human beings to inhabit. Just so, is the Christ always born in human thought, and that is about as low a place as we can reach in our individual experience. Why? Because all human thought is based on 'I', 'me,' 'mine.' All human thought is based on getting, acquiring, achieving, and accomplishing."

-- from Joel Goldsmith's "Consciousness Unfolding"
Chapter 9 - The Christ


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