You perceive the world and everything in it as meaningful in terms of ego goals. These goals have nothing to do with your own best interests, because the ego is not you. This false identification makes you incapable of understanding what anything is for. As a result, you are bound to misuse it. When you believe this, you will try to withdraw the goals you have assigned to the world, instead of attempting to reinforce them.
Another way of describing the goals you now perceive is to say that they are all concerned with “personal” interests. Since you have no personal interests, your goals are really concerned with nothing. In cherishing them, therefore, you have no goals at all. And thus you do not know what anything is for.” (A Course in Miracles W-pI.25.2-3)
Letting this passage from the Course sink in deeply helps us remember to step back from the personal goals we have had in the past. It is only by opening our minds to our inner Teacher, the Holy Spirit, that we are brought into alignment with the values of our true Identity. Our true Identity knows only oneness and so there are no individual self interests because there are no individual selves.
Our true Self leads us to let go of this false identity because It knows there are no differences and sees that what is not Love is really nothing. Our true Identity returns us to the happiness of remembering that we are one in God’s Love. This is our real Identity. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us see with the vision of our true Self which will always show us our unity with our brothers and our Father.
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