My thoughts* on A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 25, I do not know what anything is for. (*But GOD DOES)

I do not know what anything is for.

* … when I did not know GOD was the only thing that could be REAL.

1. Purpose is meaning.

²Today’s idea explains why nothing you see means anything.

* Because you are not willing to see God WITH His Son in ALL THAT IS.

³You do not know what it is for.

⁴Therefore, it is meaningless to you.

⁵Everything is for your own best interests.

* … when GOD is seen (allowed) in it.

⁶That is what it is for; that is its purpose; that is what it means.

⁷It is in recognizing this that your goals become unified.

⁸It is in recognizing this that what you see is given meaning.

* Without accepting God, the One Original and Universal Creator’s EXISTENCE, and that the Son of God can make a mistake that you have the ability to release Him from, you will not believe that

⁵Everything is for your own best interests.

2. 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.

* The ego is a fictional character that fulfills the roles that have been given you in the Matrix of “stories” of struggle, lack, betrayal, and death whose sole purpose is to deny Father’s Existence.

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.

* I propose that this last statement was meant to indicate that once you understand the ego is a false creation you WILL withdraw the goals you have assigned to the world. Those goals set up by ego are to govern and direct your existence by what you think is outside of you INSTEAD of leaning on the TRUST you are able to place in your FATHER’s Guidance and Protection.

3. 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.

4. Before you can make any sense out of the exercises for today, one more thought is necessary. ²At the most superficial levels, you do recognize purpose. ³Yet purpose cannot be understood at these levels. ⁴For example, you do understand that a telephone is for the purpose of talking to someone who is not physically in your immediate vicinity. ⁵What you do not understand is what you want to reach him for. ⁶And it is this that makes your contact with him meaningful or not.

5. 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. ³The idea for today is a step in this direction.

6. Six practice periods, each of two-minutes duration, are required.

²Each practice period should begin with a slow repetition of the idea for today, followed by looking about you and letting your glance rest on whatever happens to catch your eye, near or far, “important” or “unimportant,” “human” or “nonhuman.” ³With your eyes resting on each subject you so select, say, for example:

⁴I do not know what this chair is for.

⁵I do not know what this pencil is for.

⁶I do not know what this hand is for.

⁷Say this quite slowly, without shifting your eyes from the subject until you have completed the statement about it. ⁸Then move on to the next subject, and apply today’s idea as before.

* Remember that what is being taught here is release of your reliance on belief that the world controls you rather than that God Directs YOU as His Son in Joy.

(ACIM, W-25.1:1–6:8)

To Father be ALL Glory and Praise Given AS His Son, debi.

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According to my understanding on the 25th of January 2025.