I am in need of nothing but the truth.
I sought for many things, and found despair. Now do I seek but one, for in that one is all I need, and only what I need. All that I sought before I needed not, and did not even want. My only need I did not recognize. But now I see that I need only truth. In that all needs are satisfied, all cravings end, all hopes are finally fulfilled and dreams are gone. Now have I everything that I could need. Now have I everything that I could want. And now at last I find myself at peace.
And for that peace, our Father, we give thanks. What we denied ourselves You have restored, and only that is what we really want. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 251, W-pII.251. See also ACIM Lesson 251 Insights.)
The needs of the world are the ego’s needs. The ego has denied what God has given to all His creation. To satisfy its made up needs, the ego makes up illusions that temporarily seem to meet its needs. But they never last because they are not real. We think these needs are ours because we have identified with the ego. But the ego is not us.
Our only real need is to be what we were created to be — to be one with God and all Love. This is not actually a need at all because it is What we are. But we need to accept what we have already been given. We accept this eternal gift by letting go of our identification with the ego and its false needs. We do this by following the Holy Spirit’s guidance in all that we do and think, 24/7.
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