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Persevere on the mystical path of life.
Practice makes perfect: Persist with your spiritual practice.
Your spiritual practice is the expression of your devotion to God and your commitment to the spiritual journey. Practice builds you up for the task and activity of contemplation. Practice opens you to the mystery of Oneness. Practice enables you to realize the Truth. Practice opens you to the transforming mystical experience of God.
Living the mystical life is never easy. It requires the commitment of a lifetime — a commitment to study and practice, and to persist in our study and in our practice.
The few who embark on the spiritual life find it difficult, and it is difficult. There is no question about that. The fact that living the spiritual life is not an easy way should not disturb us, because, if we are determined to attain the spiritual way of life, we must be prepared for a period of struggle, effort, study, and discipline.
The main struggle for us is that we are the product of centuries of living exclusively in the external. Not only are there centuries of materialistic living behind us, but right in our cribs we began to live with rattles and dolls, later with marbles and with every of kind of game that would keep our attention centered on the outer world. Sadly enough, even when we entered school more attention was usually paid to keeping us entertained and occupied with games and sports than with intensive study or with teaching us how to be still enough inside so that we could concentrate. Because of the preoccupation with nonessentials, there are only a few who have developed the ability to concentrate and know how to study.
An ability to find inner peace and stillness is required in following the spiritual path. Our entire demonstration rests on our attaining the ability to be so quiet in mind that we can hear “the still small voice” and receive impressions from within. (Joel S. Goldsmith, from The Art of Spiritual Living,
Chapter: “The New Dispensation of Prayer”)
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The few who embark on the spiritual life find it difficult, and it is difficult. There is no question about that. The fact that living the spiritual life is not an easy way should not disturb us, because, if we are determined to attain the spiritual way of life, we must be prepared for a period of struggle, effort, study, and discipline.
The main struggle for us is that we are the product of centuries of living exclusively in the external. Not only are there centuries of materialistic living behind us, but right in our cribs we began to live with rattles and dolls, later with marbles and with every of kind of game that would keep our attention centered on the outer world. Sadly enough, even when we entered school more attention was usually paid to keeping us entertained and occupied with games and sports than with intensive study or with teaching us how to be still enough inside so that we could concentrate. Because of the preoccupation with nonessentials, there are only a few who have developed the ability to concentrate and know how to study.
An ability to find inner peace and stillness is required in following the spiritual path. Our entire demonstration rests on our attaining the ability to be so quiet in mind that we can hear “the still small voice” and receive impressions from within. (Joel S. Goldsmith, from The Art of Spiritual Living,
Chapter: “The New Dispensation of Prayer”)
- The spiritual life is difficult. But if we are determined to attain the spiritual way of life, we must be prepared for a period of struggle, effort, study, and discipline.
Your persistence on the spiritual path means that the spirit of God has already touched you. You have not chosen God. God has chosen you, and God will not let you go until you arrive safely at home in His bosom. The constant recognition that the spirit of God has touched you and will not let you go is one of the greatest helps on the way.
— Joel S. Goldsmith —
“The constant recognition that the spirit of God has touched you and will not let you go is one of the greatest helps on the way.”
Once the Spirit has you in its hands, you are caught hook, line, and sinker. 
It grabs hold of all of you, until your inner transformation is made complete. The divine romance has begun. You can only surrender to It. You can only flow downstream with It on Its way back to the vast ocean of Its oneness.— Marc —
And now, enter into
the Divine Romance.
The Divine Romance between the Spirit and the Human Soul
The Mystical Path 
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