Behind the search for every idol lies the yearning for completion. Wholeness has no form because it is unlimited. To seek a special person or a thing to add to you to make yourself complete, can only mean that you believe some form is missing. And by finding this, you will achieve completion in a form you like. This is the purpose of an idol; that you will not look beyond it, to the source of the belief that you are incomplete. Only if you had sinned could this be so. For sin is the idea you are alone, and separated off from what is whole. And thus it would be necessary for the search for wholeness to be made beyond the boundaries of limits on yourself.
Completion is the function of God’s Son. He has no need to seek for it at all. Beyond all idols stands his holy will to be but what he is. For more than whole is meaningless.… What is not whole cannot make whole. But what is really asked for cannot be denied. Your will is granted. Not in any form that would content you not, but in the whole completely lovely Thought God holds of you. (A Course in Miracles, T-30.III.3;5:1-4,8-11. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
Everyone in the world feels a sense of being incomplete. All the conflict in the world comes from attempts to get what we believe would resolve our sense of incompletion.
Think of what the world would be like if everyone knew that they were whole and complete; they need nothing. There would be no conflict, no attempts to take from another. There would be only a quiet peace and extension of Love. There would be joyous celebration of the limitless flow of Love.
This is our natural state. We need only accept it by letting go of the false beliefs that tell us we are alone and incomplete. We have an inner Teacher Whose purpose it is to guide us to discern what is false and help us let it go. As we accept this Help, we free ourselves from the mistaken belief in limitation and move closer to the full acceptance that we share the unlimited Will of our Creator. It is inevitable that we will remember our freedom to be Love and extend Love without limit. We need only accept the Help already given us.
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