I Am: A Course In Miracles (acim)

lesson 13 â??A meaningless world engenders fear.â?? Todayâ??s idea is really another form of the preceding one,except that it is more speciï¬?c as to the emotion aroused.Actually, a meaningless world is impossible.Nothing without meaning exists.However,it does not follow that you will not perceive something that has no meaning. On the contrary, you will be particularly likely to think you do perceive it. Recognition of meaninglessness arouses intense anxiety in all the separated ones. It represents a situation in which God and the ego â??challengeâ??each other as to whose meaning is to be written in the empty space which meaninglessness provides.The ego rushes in frantically to establish its own â??ideasâ??there,fearful that the void may otherwise be used to demonstrate its own unreality. And on this alone it is correct. It is essential, therefore, that you learn to recognize the meaningless,and accept it without fear.If you are fearful,it is certain that you will endow the w