knows that it is meaningless.
Whenever you question your value, say:
“God Himself is incomplete without me.”
Remember this when the ego speaks, and you will not hear it.
The truth about you is so lofty that nothing unworthy of God is
worthy of you. Choose, then, what you want in these terms, and
accept nothing that you would not offer to God as wholly fitting for
Him, for you do not WANTanything else. Return your part of Him,
and He will give you all of Himself in exchange for your return of
what belongs to Him and renders Him complete.
GRANDEUR VERSUS GRANDIOSITY
Grandeur is of God, and ONLYof Him. Therefore, it is in you.
Whenever you become aware of it, however dimly, you abandon the
ego automatically because, in the presence of the grandeur of God,
the meaninglessness of the ego becomes perfectly apparent. Though
it does not understand this, the ego believes that its “enemy” has
struck, and attempts to offer gifts to induce you to return to its
“protection.”SELF-inflation of the ego is its alternative to the
grandeur of God.Which will you choose?
Grandiosity is ALWAYSa cover for despair. It is without hope
because it is not real. It is an attempt to counteract your littleness,
based on the belief that the littleness is REAL.Without this belief
grandiosity is meaningless, and you could not possibly want it. The
essence of grandiosity is competitiveness, because it ALWAYSinvolves
attack. It is a delusional attempt to OUTDO,but NOTto undo. We
said before that the ego vacillates between suspiciousness and
viciousness. It remains suspicious as long as you despair of yourself. It
shifts to viciousness whenever you will not tolerate self-abasement
and seek relief.Then it offers you the illusion of attack as a solution.
The ego does not know the difference between grandeur and
grandiosity because it does not know the difference between miracle
impulses and ego-alien beliefs of its own.We once said that the ego IS
aware of threat, but does not make distinctions between two entirely
different kinds of threat to its existence. Its own profound sense of
vulnerability renders it incapable of judgement EXCEPTin terms of
GRANDEUR VERSUS GRANDIOSITY