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Word Gems
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A Course In Miracles
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Our sense of inadequacy, weakness, and incompletion comes from the strong investment in the “scarcity principle” that governs the whole world of illusions. From that point of view, we seek in others what we feel is wanting in ourselves. That, in fact, is what passes for love in the dream world. There can be no greater mistake than that, [that is, confusing love for the "scarcity principle"] for love is incapable of asking for anything. Editor’s note: And this is why, on the egoic level of perceiving the world, "opposites attract," an affinity based on inner sense of poverty.
The world believes that if everyone has everything, there is nothing left [for the ego, which wants more and more]. Editor’s note: In a great many articles on the Word Gems site we’ve spoken of the Small Ego’s illusions of neediness: “I don’t have enough” because “I am not enough.”
Only those who have a real and lasting sense of abundance can be truly charitable… “Giving to get” is an inescapable law of the ego [which is] continually preoccupied with the belief in scarcity
[The "true self' senses the reality, which is,] "God has given you everything." This one fact means the ego does not [truly] exist ... The Holy Spirit knows that you both have everything and are everything.
LESSON 251. I am in need of nothing but the truth. I sought for many things, and found despair. Now do I seek but one, for in that one is all I need, and only what I need. All that I sought before I needed not, and did not even want. My only need I did not recognize. But now I see that I need only truth. In that all needs are satisfied, all cravings end, all hopes are finally fulfilled and dreams are gone. Now have I everything that I could need. Now have I everything that I could want. And now at last I find myself at peace.
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