A Course in Miracles: Based on the Original Handwritten Notes of Helen Schucman—Complete & Annotated Edition

by Helen Schucman

The ego is certain that love is dangerous, and this is always its central teaching theme. 2It never puts it this way; on the contrary, everyone who believes that the ego is salvation is intensely engaged in the search for love. 3Yet the ego, though encouraging the search very actively, makes one proviso: Do not find it. 4Its dictates, then, can be summed up simply as “Seek and do not find.”29 5This is the one promise that it holds out to you, and the one promise it will keep. 6For the ego pursues its goal with fanatic insistence, and its reality testing, though severely impaired, is completely consistent.30 2 The search which the ego undertakes is therefore bound to be defeated. 2And since it also teaches that it is your identification, its guidance leads you to a journey which must end in perceived self-defeat. 3For the ego cannot love, and in its frantic search for love, it is seeking what it is afraid to find.