Everything the ego tells you that you need will hurt you. ²For although the ego urges you again and again to get, it leaves you nothing, for what you get it will demand of you. …⁵Therefore ask not of yourself what you need, for you do not know, and your advice to yourself will hurt you. ⁶For what you think you need will merely serve to tighten up your world against the light [Love], and render you unwilling to question the value that this world can really hold for you.
Only the Holy Spirit knows what you need. ²For He will give you all things that do not block the way to light.
Leave, then, your needs to Him.
…remember what you really want, and say:
²The Holy Spirit leads me unto Christ, and where else would I go? ³What need have I but to awake in Him?
Then follow Him in joy, with faith that He will lead you safely through all dangers to your peace of mind this world may set before you. (A Course in Miracles, T-13.VII.11:1-2,5-6;12:1-2;13:1;14:1-15:1. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
What could be more valuable than joy without limit and peace of mind that cannot be disturbed? This is what the Holy Spirit offers if we let Him be our Guide in all things.
The ego is the belief that forms in this world can offer happiness. But forms have no reality. They are only the ego’s substitute illusions that leave us empty handed. Illusions deny the oneness of Love, thus they deny Reality.
When we choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide, we choose the path to the reality of eternal Love. He leads us to everything while the ego leads only to nothing. The choice to follow the Holy Spirit is the choice for joy and peace of mind. It is the choice for God’s Love.
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