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.”
It is crucial to your learning to be willing to give up the goals you have established for everything. The recognition that they are meaningless, rather than “good” or “bad,” is the only way to accomplish this. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 25, W-pI.25.2:1-3:2;5:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 25 Insights.)
As long as we believe in the ego thought system of separation, it is impossible for us to understand what anything means. The ego is not us. Identifying with the ego is identifying with an illusion of our self. Illusions are meaningless in reality. They only seem meaningful and real because we believe in them. It is only our belief that makes our body and the world we perceive through the body seem real.
While we insist on judging everything as good or bad, right or wrong, we cannot know what anything is truly for. We must be willing to give up our opinions about everything. It is in this relinquishment that we can welcome the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love. Because only Love is real, the only meaningful purpose in any moment is to join in Love and extend It.
Because Love joins, we cannot know true purpose by trying to figure it out on our own. Believing we are alone blocks us from true purpose. Letting the Holy Spirit show us the unity we share with all that Is reveals the meaning in all things. The Holy Spirit will use whatever life experience we seem to be having to lead us to our true purpose of being and extending Love.
Today we offer all our opinions to the Holy Spirit with willingness to let Him show us true purpose.
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