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A Course In Miracles Lesson 104

I have spent much of my life pursuing goals that did not actually belong to me — and I did not know I was doing it.

Lesson 104

I seek but what belongs to me in truth.

🌿 Approval. Security. Control.

These have felt like survival.

In reentry, substitutes appear constantly.

External validation can feel like the difference between being safe and being vulnerable.

If I am seen correctly, maybe I will be okay.

If I manage my reputation well enough, maybe I will not be hurt again.

Today’s lesson suggests that peace and joy are not achievements.

They are inheritances.

The difficulty is not their absence.

It is the clutter I place where they belong.

I notice how much energy I have spent chasing what I thought would make me whole.

Only to find that each achievement created a new need.

What if the thing I was looking for was never something I had to acquire?

What if it was something I had to stop rejecting?

Today I am practicing distinguishing between what I seek from habit and what is truly mine.

The difference is not in the thing itself.

It is in whether I feel peace when I find it.

I seek but what belongs to me in truth.

I am MovingStill.

#iammovingstill #reentry #acim #spirituality #healing

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