22 Be not content with littleness, but be sure you
understand what littleness is and why you could never be content with it.
Littleness is the offering you gave yourself. You offered this in place of
magnitude, and you accepted it. Everything in this world is little because it
is a world made out of littleness in the strange belief that littleness can
content you. When you strive for anything in this world with the belief that it
will bring you peace, you are belittling yourself and blinding yourself to
glory. Littleness and glory are the choices open to your striving and your
vigilance. You will always choose one at the expense of the other.
23 Yet what you do not realize each time you choose is that
your choice is your evaluation of yourself. Choose littleness and you will not
have peace, for you will have judged yourself unworthy of it. And whatever you
offer as a substitute is much too poor a gift to satisfy you. It is essential
that you accept the fact, and accept it gladly, that there is no form of
littleness that can ever content you. You are free to try as many as you wish,
but all you will be doing is to delay your homecoming. For you will be content
only in magnitude, which is your home.
24 There is a deep responsibility you owe yourself, and one
which you must learn to remember all the time. The lesson will seem hard at
first, but you will learn to love it when you realize that it is true and
constitutes a tribute to your power. You who have sought and found littleness,
remember this: Every decision which you make stems from what you think you are
and represents the value that you put upon yourself. Believe the little can
content you, and by limiting yourself, you will not be satisfied. For your
function is not little, and it is only by finding your function and fulfilling
it that you can escape from littleness.
~ A Course In Miracles ~
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