T-29.VII
Seek Not Outside Yourself
Seeking completion in form makes idols and ends in loss; choosing the Holy Spirit’s purpose returns cause to mind, undoes sacrifice and death, and remembers the Kingdom within.
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Stop assigning idols a role; admit you do not know the world’s purpose.
Dream
Seeking outside is a depressing dream; dreams arise only in a sleeping mind.
Magic ★ Zenith
Seeking completion outside yourself is the mature form of magic.
Body
When the body is the beneficiary, the goal is lack and death.
Cause and Effect
Seeking outside assigns power to idols; pain is the predictable effect.
Sacrifice
Sacrifice equals lack and death-thinking; salvation requires no renunciation.
Minor
Decision
Prefer happiness to being right, and admit you don’t know purpose.
Peace
The outside search ends when peace is recognized within.
Salvation
Let idols fall; salvation shows life remains, and the real is untouched.
Scarcity Principle
Searching outside assumes lack; idols promise completion but keep the deficit.
Separation
Seeking outside assumes a missing part; the body becomes its search tool.
Fear of God
Searching outside protects idols; fear of God is fear of loss.
Illusions
The outside-search multiplies idols and keeps the truth within unnamed.
Kingdom
Stop searching where peace is absent; God within is your completion.
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