Idols are quite specific. But your will is universal, being limitless. And so it has no form, nor is content for its expression in the terms of form. Idols are limits. [Idols] are the belief that there are forms that will bring happiness, and that, by limiting, is all attained. It is as if you said, “I have no need of everything. This little thing I want, and it will be as everything to me.” And this must fail to satisfy, because it is your will that everything be yours. Decide for idols and you ask for loss. Decide for truth and everything is yours.
Behind the search for every idol [form] lies the yearning for completion. Wholeness has no form because it is unlimited. To seek a special person or a thing to add to you to make yourself complete, can only mean that you believe some form is missing. And by finding this, you will achieve completion in a form you like. This is the purpose of an idol; that you will not look beyond it, to the source of the belief that you are incomplete. Only if you had sinned could this be so. For sin is the idea you are alone and separated off from what is whole. And thus it would be necessary for the search for wholeness to be made beyond the boundaries of limits on yourself. (A Course in Miracles, T-30.III.1;3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
We believe that we are separate and alone, disconnected from our Creator and our brothers. Feeling incomplete is the consequence of this belief. Everyone in the world feels incomplete because we have accepted the limitations of a separate body as what we are. The inevitable emptiness that comes with believing we are a limited form triggers a constant search for completion. The ego directs us to look for some form that will make us happy. Yet anything that is limited cannot complete us. The ego has no answer for our search for completion.
The Holy Spirit has the only answer that will satisfy our true Self, the Son of God. It is our will to be complete because we share God’s Will for us. The Holy Spirit’s answer to the call from our heart is to lead us to remember the Reality of God’s Love for us. His Love unites us with Him. It is eternal and changeless. Here is where our true meaning lies, for we complete God as God completes us. We share the limitless extension of Love that is God.
Dissatisfaction is symptom that we have chosen the limitation of a form or idol to be our completion. Today we practice being mindful of any perception that disturbs our peace. We acknowledge that we have mistakenly chosen a form as a substitute for our completion in the Love of God. We ask the Holy Spirit to help us let this go and remember our completion is in Love.
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