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Legends · 1892–1964

Joel S. Goldsmith

Spiritual Growth

Founded The Infinite Way and taught contemplative awareness of divine presence as a path to healing and inner freedom.

Joel S. Goldsmith is included in the Legends collection for work associated with Spiritual Growth. This profile offers a starting point for readers who want to place that work within the wider personal-development tradition.

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Legends

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1892–1964

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“The degree of our inner stillness is the measure of our outer harmony.”

— Joel S. Goldsmith, The Infinite Way

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“The degree of our inner stillness is the measure of our outer harmony.”

— Joel S. Goldsmith, The Infinite Way

Founded The Infinite Way and taught contemplative awareness of divine presence as a path to healing and inner freedom.

  • Spiritual Growth

Signature works

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01

The Infinite Way

1946 · The founding text of his mystical teaching.

02

The Art of Meditation

1957 · Meditation as listening, taught step by step.

03

Practicing the Presence

1958 · Awareness of God carried into ordinary hours.

04

The Art of Spiritual Healing

1959 · His approach to healing through impersonal truth.

05

A Parenthesis in Eternity

1963 · His most complete statement of mystical life.

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