Stop STRIVING—Discover the STILLNESS Already Present (Joel S. Goldsmith)

Описание: Stop STRIVING—Discover the STILLNESS Already Present (Joel S. Goldsmith)


What if prayer isn’t something you enter… but something you’ve been unknowingly leaving?

In this deeply calming, contemplative message drawn from the spiritual teachings of Joel S. Goldsmith, you’re invited to stop trying to “get still,” stop chasing peace, and stop approaching God as if God were distant. Because the radical truth revealed here is simple:

Stillness is already present.
Grace is not an achievement. It’s a recognition.

This talk begins by overturning one of the most exhausting habits in spiritual life: the effort to become spiritual. Even in prayer, there’s a subtle temptation to strive—quiet the mind, control thought, feel peace, “do prayer correctly.” Yet this effort is often the very thing that keeps us from the awareness of God.

You’ll be guided into a gentler way:

Not fighting thoughts

Not suppressing emotions

Not condemning yourself for mental noise

Not trying to force silence

Instead, you learn to withdraw interest from thought—like clouds passing across the sky—while the sky remains untouched.

A powerful theme unfolds: the “secret place” is not a physical location. It is an inner sanctuary the world has never touched—where fear has never entered, lack has never ruled, and your identity is no longer trapped in “I and mine.” In this sanctuary, prayer becomes something higher than words:

Prayer becomes listening.
Not listening for sentences or signs, but listening as awareness itself.

As this recognition deepens, something extraordinary happens: the impulse to ask fades. Petition quiets—not because asking is wrong, but because it becomes unnecessary when you realize you are not separated from the Source. You don’t plead for what is already functioning. You don’t request what is already given.

This is where prayer transforms into beholding:
Not arguing with appearances… not trying to change conditions… but quietly acknowledging divine order behind everything. Here, we stop monitoring outcomes, stop supervising God, and begin to rest in the truth that grace is not an intervention—it is the fabric of being.

This message will help you experience:

How to “be still” without forcing the mind

Why the kingdom is recognized within you

What it means to abide without concentration

Why true prayer becomes wordless communion

How divine order is revealed when we stop interfering

The shift from seeking results to resting in Reality

The peace that remains even when life gets loud again

The ending is just as liberating as the beginning: you don’t “leave” prayer to face the world. You discover the world itself is taking place within prayer. Activity returns, but the stillness remains as the foundation. Silence doesn’t need protection—it holds you.

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