Everything the ego tells you that you need will hurt you. For although the ego urges you again and again to get, it leaves you nothing, for what you get it will demand of you.”
Therefore ask not of yourself what you need, for you do not know, and your advice to yourself will hurt you. For what you think you need will merely serve to tighten up your world against the light, and render you unwilling to question the value that this world can really hold for you.
Only the Holy Spirit knows what you need. For He will give you all things that do not block the way to light.
Leave, then, your needs to Him.
…remember what you really want, and say:
The Holy Spirit leads me unto Christ, and where else would I go? What need have I but to awake in Him?
Then follow Him in joy, with faith that He will lead you safely through all dangers to your peace of mind this world may set before you. (A Course in Miracles, T-13.VIII.11:1-2,5-6;12:1-2;13:1;14:1-15:1. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The ultimate goal of A Course in Miracles is to lead us to the peace of mind that is our natural state as the Son of God. It has a two part strategy to achieve this goal. One part is to help us realize that the world we experience has no value. It holds nothing that we truly want, for it can only offer meaningless illusions. By itself, this would not be enough, for it would leave us frightened with no sense if identity.
So the Holy Spirit must also teach us the truth that we really want: We remain the changeless, eternal Love that God created us to be. This is our true Identity. This process leads us to recognize there is no value in the world. But all value is in the Self that God created one with Him. Here we find the safety, certainty and peace of mind that everyone seeks. As we let go of values we have placed in the world, the Light of our true Self shines forth and we remember Who we are. We rest in the peace and Love of God.
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