“In the violation of that cosmic law, we bring about our own
punishment. God does not punish us; we punish ourselves because if I say that
you are poor, I virtually am saying that I am poor. There is only one I and one
Selfhood; whatever truth I know about you is the truth about me. If I accept
the belief of poverty in the world, that reacts upon me. If I say that you are
sick or that you are not kind, I am accepting a quality apart from God, an
activity apart from God, and in that way I am condemning myself because there
is but one Self. Ultimately, I convict myself by bearing false witness against
my neighbor and I am the one who suffers the consequences.
The only way to avoid bearing false witness against our
neighbor is to realize that the Christ is our neighbor, that our neighbor is a
spiritual being, the Son of God, just as we are. He may not know it; we may not
know it; but the truth is: I am Spirit; I am Soul; I am consciousness; I am God
expressed--and so is he, whether he is good or bad, friend or enemy, next door
or across the seas.”
~ Joel Goldsmith ~
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