Living through Grace...

Extracts from The Master Speaks Chapter 13 "Individual Consciousness" Joel S Goldsmith
"Seek ye first the Kingdom of God...and all these things shall be added unto you. You seek, you search, you make this truth a conscious activity of your being; and then it must manifest because Truth and its manifestation are not two separate things. Truth and its manifestation are one. . .
Truth is the substance of all form. Therefore, know truth and truth will appear to you as the form necessary to your experience. But it must be a conscious activity of your consciousness. . . Wherever you find Truth, you find It manifested as form.
We have to pray without ceasing until consciousness becomes transformed, until we die daily to the human being that we were, without a sense of separateness from God. . . and until our consciousness is filled with the reminder and remembrance of God's presence.
Never try to find. . . do not seek . . . things. Go within. Realize God as the substance of your being, as the real nature of your being. Realize God as law, as life eternal.
Do not reach outside, even mentally, for person, place, thing, circumstance or condition. . .
On this path, however, the moment that you do acquire something in the external, you should recognize that which you have as nothingness, because even a glimpse of this truth makes as nothing the things of the outer world. And yet, nobody in the world can be as appreciative as we are of the good that comes to us, when it comes, as it does, as the realization of this truth. . . the slightest thing, the smallest thing that comes to me, or the biggest thing, I appreciate, I enjoy. I enjoy the good things of life. I like to see them unfold. I like to see them appear, but only for one reason: I know that there is no longer any mental activity or any reaching out to get them. Whatever comes, comes as the grace of God. This form of living is living by grace. This is living without taking thought. This is living so that all life, all beauty, and all good, come as the gift of God, as the grace of God. It is a beautiful way of living, because you have everything to make life full and complete . . .It is a beautiful way of living - this living through grace."