Daily Inspiration

Our Guide to Perfect Happiness

A Course in Miracles,

Only the Holy Spirit knows what you need. For He will give you all things that do not block the way to light. And what else could you need? In time, He gives you all the things that you need have, and will renew them as long as you have need of them. He will take nothing from you as long as you have any need of it. And yet He knows that everything you need is temporary, and will but last until you step aside from all your needs and realize that all of them have been fulfilled. Therefore He has no investment in the things that He supplies, except to make certain that you will not use them on behalf of lingering in time. He knows that you are not at home there, and He wills no delay to wait upon your joyous homecoming. (T-13.VII.12. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

God’s Will for us is perfect happiness. If we want to be happy, it makes sense that we follow the Guide given us by the Source of happiness.

Since the ego is the denial of the Source of happiness, it does not know what happiness is. The best the ego can do is offer illusions as substitutes for God’s gifts. Everything the ego offers can only be temporary. The images may seem to make us happy, yet they do not last. And so, with the ego as our guide, we are on a journey that leads to disappointment and dissatisfaction.

Thankfully we have another Guide in our minds ready to lead us to the ultimate satisfaction of perfect happiness. We need to step back from the ego’s advice, remembering that on our own we do not know what will really bring us true and lasting happiness.

As we practice turning to the Holy Spirit as our Advisor in all things, we learn that the things we thought would bring us happiness in the world only lead to further dissatisfaction. We learn to recognize what is truly valueless. We make way for God’s joy and peace to come forward in our minds. Under the Holy Spirit’s guidance, all things in the world are used to help us awaken to the eternal presence of joy that is our natural state.

Today we practice giving our attention to the Guide to perfect happiness.

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