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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▲ MilestoneSeeking outside guarantees idols—and makes losing them seem frightening.	▲ Milestone
Pillar
▲ MilestoneSadness is the sign that an idol has replaced life.	▲ Milestone
Supporting
Stop assigning idols a role; admit you do not know the world’s purpose.
Seeking outside is a depressing dream; dreams arise only in a sleeping mind.
★ ZenithSeeking completion outside yourself is the mature form of magic.	★ Zenith
When the body is the beneficiary, the goal is lack and death.
Seeking outside assigns power to idols; pain is the predictable effect.
Sacrifice equals lack and death-thinking; salvation requires no renunciation.
Minor
Prefer happiness to being right, and admit you don’t know purpose.
The outside search ends when peace is recognized within.
Let idols fall; salvation shows life remains, and the real is untouched.
Searching outside assumes lack; idols promise completion but keep the deficit.
Seeking outside assumes a missing part; the body becomes its search tool.
Searching outside protects idols; fear of God is fear of loss.
The outside-search multiplies idols and keeps the truth within unnamed.
Stop searching where peace is absent; God within is your completion.
Echo
The holy mind is God’s altar; idols cannot live there.
Stop carrying yesterday into tomorrow; learn what time is for.
Idols promise relief, but remembering God’s Love and Voice restores hope.

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