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It is the function of love to unite all things unto itself and to hold all things together by extending its wholeness.
 A Course in Miracles
Joel Goldsmith wrote that it didn't take courage for him to establish his healing practice  it took understanding. He believed that the main objective of spiritual healing is not physical. The purpose of healers is not to keep everybody alive on earth permanently. He said, rather, the goal of spiritual healing is spiritual regeneration and "soul expansion." 20 His writings have given me the courage to leave behind my previous work as a university professor and researcher, and give priority to work that no one really understands. Goldsmith taught that:
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It becomes the responsibility and privilege of every person to lift the world in some measure above its present level of consciousness.21
I believe that spiritual healers are able to help others, not because they are "better" than others, or have powers someone else does not possess, but because they know the truth of that "responsibility and privilege."

 
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