…a meaningless world is impossible. Nothing without meaning exists. However, it does not follow that you will not think you perceive something that has no meaning. On the contrary, you will be particularly likely to think you do perceive it.
Recognition of meaninglessness arouses intense anxiety in all the separated ones. It represents a situation in which God and the ego “challenge” each other as to whose meaning is to be written in the empty space that meaninglessness provides. The ego rushes in frantically to establish its own ideas there, fearful that the void may otherwise be used to demonstrate its own impotence and unreality. And on this alone it is correct.
It is essential, therefore, that you learn to recognize the meaningless, and accept it without fear. If you are fearful, it is certain that you will endow the world with attributes that it does not possess, and crowd it with images that do not exist. To the ego illusions are safety devices, as they must also be to you who equate yourself with the ego. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 13, W-pI.13.1:2-3:3. See also ACIM Lesson 13 Insights.)
If we believe we are an individual housed in a body, we are equating ourselves with the ego. God is the Source of all meaning, being eternal and changeless. Only His Love is real. It is our unity with our Creator that gives us meaning. It keeps our true Self eternally connected with the flow of Love.
The ego is trying to make a different meaning that is disconnected from Love. The wish for specialness denies Love because Love is always given equally to all. The ego is afraid of God’s Will because it is competing with God, yielding to His Will would mean the end of the ego.
The Will of our true Self is the same as God’s Will. In our union with God we find peace and happiness. The best the ego can offer are empty substitutes that give the appearance of specialness but cannot be real. Thus the ego’s images are meaningless. When we identity with the ego, we will always feel unfulfilled. Fulfillment comes when we serve our only true purpose — to extend Love. Extending Love is the antidote that dispels the ego’s fear. As we join in Love, we equate ourselves with God’s one Son.
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