LESSON 131, No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth.

LESSON 131, No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth.

From A Course in Miracles Experience by Rev. Devan Jesse Byrne

May 6, 2026 · 12 min · Season 1 · Episode 131

About this episode

This episode discusses the concept that no one can fail who seeks the truth, emphasizing the futility of pursuing meaningless goals.

LESSON 131 No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth. Failure is all about you while you seek for goals that cannot be achieved. You look for permanence in the impermanent, for love where there is none, for safety in the midst of danger; immortal­ity within the darkness of the dream of death. Who could succeed where contradiction is the setting of his searching, and the place to which he comes to find stability? Goals that are meaningless are not attained. There is no way to reach them, for the means by which you strive for them are meaningless as they are. Who can use such senseless means, and hope through them to gain in anything? Where can they lead? And what could they achieve that offers any hope of being real? Pursuit of the imagined leads to death because it is the search for nothingness, and while you seek for life you ask for death. You look for safety and security, while in your heart you pray for danger and protection for the little dream you made. Yet searching is inevitable here. For this you came, and you will surely do the thing you came for. But the world can not dictate the goal for which you search, unless you give it power to do so. Otherwise, you still are…

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Host: Rev. Devan Jesse Byrne

Topics covered

  • truth
  • failure
  • search for meaning
  • spirituality
  • goals
  • self-discovery

Keywords

  • truth
  • failure
  • spirituality
  • goals
  • self-improvement
  • search for meaning
  • A Course in Miracles

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