I do not know what anything is for.
Purpose is meaning. ²Today’s idea explains why nothing you see means anything.
You perceive the world and everything in it as meaningful in terms of ego goals. ²These goals have nothing to do with your own best interests, because the ego is not you. ³This false identification makes you incapable of understanding what anything is for. ⁴As a result, you are bound to misuse it. ⁵When 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. ²Since you have no personal interests, your goals are really concerned with nothing. ³In cherishing them, therefore, you have no goals at all. ⁴And thus you do not know what anything is for.
It is crucial to your learning to be willing to give up the goals you have established for everything. ²The recognition that they are meaningless, rather than “good” or “bad,” is the only way to accomplish this. (A Course in Miracles, W-25.1:1-2;2:1–3:4;5:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 25 Insights.)
While we identify with the ego, we will always be seeking what is not in our best interest. Identifying with the body is identifying with the ego. With this identification, all our efforts are invested in protecting this false image of our identity. The ego is the wish for a unique identity and therefore denies the oneness of God’s Love.
We need to let go of our mistaken identification with the ego. The practice of reminding ourselves that we do not know what anything means helps us loosen our misidentification. It opens our mind to accept the idea that we are Love and nothing else.
We have been given Help to guide us to see our true Identity as the one Self that is God’s Son. We share the oneness of God’s Love. Our only meaningful purpose is to extend the Love we are equally to all. Today is an opportunity to remind ourselves that we do not know what anything means. With this open mind, we welcome the Holy Spirit’s help to guide us in the way of Love.
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