 Because you can see how that line leaves no room for expectations. Those who see themselves as whole make no demands. Those who see themselves as whole are not at the mercy of anyone or anything. You consequently would have no expectation because there would be nothing perceived as needed. And in that scenario, of course, could not be upset. They could not be unfairly treated based on a seeming change in what someone said or did. They couldn't perceive themselves as unfairly treated. They couldn't perceive themselves as someone breaking their word or doing something against them when they see themselves as the dreamer of the dream. And they no longer perceive attack. So lack, if we take it a little step further, then lack or incompletion or scarcity is what has to be addressed. So let's address it. Let's take a look at that. The fundamental thing that we'll keep going over many, many, many times is that the deceived mind doesn't know what it is and therefore it doesn't know how to extend. It doesn't know what giving is. It doesn't see that giving and receiving are equal or the same. You know, how many times have we heard these cliches in this world about, you know, the importance of giving or even the cliché about it is better to give than to receive. That's even off. The mind gets exactly what it wants and it's always giving and receiving and it's impossible that it's better to give than to receive because they're the same. They can't put one as higher than another. But the key thing is for the deceived mind, the deceived mind doesn't have a clue what giving is because it believes in the ego and it believes in form and specifics and so therefore believing in specifics, it doesn't know what giving is because giving doesn't in the end have anything to do with specifics. Neither does extending. So another way we could come at it, we could say as long as the mind feels incomplete and lacking and it sees all these expectations, it has all these expectations of other people, even expectations of this person, of the person that it identifies as itself. You've heard of placing high standards or I put so much pressure on myself. It has to be the ego talking. Christ doesn't put pressure on himself. The ego that puts pressure is the ego that sets up expectations, personal expectations. I have to live up to somebody else's standards or I have to live up to these standards that I'm setting for myself but that's not the capital self, that's the ego. So even that would be in the realm of expectations. But in the end the only realization that you're ever asked to make is, or ever asked to come to, is that having and being are the same. Having and being, giving and receiving are the same. Having and being, in other words, when the mind believes it's asleep, when it thinks it's in a world, we should say that it associates itself with the person, with the body and it associates everything in the world with specifics and therefore it believes in personal possessions even. It believes it has a body that possesses and that is probably of all things in this world of possessions, that is the seat mind's most prized possession is the body. That's why in cases of rape and incest and injury, it just seems to be such a deep wound because the mind feels like it's been personally violated, much less when somebody breaks into one's car or breaks into one's house but when something is done to the body, since the mind identifies with the body, it feels a sense of violation, a strong sense of victimization. So right off the bat, the seat mind thinks it has a body. It thinks it possesses a body. Then it thinks it possesses other things, green paper strips, houses, cars, clothing, jewelry. It thinks it possesses computers or just fill in the blank of all the things in the world, dogs, cats. It thinks it possesses biological family members. It thinks it possesses maybe a religion or it just goes on and on and on and on. In all of it, all of it reflects this confusion about having because it thinks it has these things. But in truth, that isn't what having means. You can't have $100. You can't have a husband. You can't have a body. You can't have a skill at playing the piano or a skill at playing baseball. You can't have mathematical ability. You can't have high IQ or verbal ability. You can't have any of that stuff because none of that stuff is real. How can you have something that isn't real? So the teachings of the Course are what you have is what you are. That's it. That's what having means. Having and being are identical. To see how a recognition or a realization of that, to even have a hint of how a realization of that would bring an end to all this seeking outside oneself on the screen, would bring an end to expectations and expecting others to do what they said they would do or whatever, however you have it constructed. That's all it takes. It's free. This realization is free. It doesn't cost anything. There's no cost associated with recognizing that what you have is what you are. It's given. That was given to you when you were created by God, and nothing can take that away from you. You can cover it over in your consciousness. You can bury it. You can deny it. You can keep it out of awareness, but you can't destroy it. And you can't change it. You can just accept it. And it's the associations that cover it over. It's all those things that you said you can't have. It's like you can associate with them that you can't have them. And it's one or the other. I mean, actually, it's only one, but it seems an awareness to be one or the other. Just a little bit from the attainment of the real world section. Honorship is a dangerous concept if it is left to you. The ego wants to have things for salvation. For possession is its law. Possession for its own sake is the ego's fundamental creed, a basic cornerstone in the churches it builds to itself. And at its altar it demands you lay all of the things it bids you get, leaving you no joy in them. Everything the ego tells you that you need will hurt you. For although the ego urges you again and again to get, it leaves you nothing. For what you get, it will demand of you. And even from the very hands that grasp it, it will be wrenched and hurled into the dust. For where the ego sees salvation, it sees separation. And so you lose whatever you have gotten in its name. Therefore ask not of yourself what you need for you do not know. And your advice to yourself will hurt you. For what you think you need will merely serve to tighten up your world against the light and render you unwilling to question the value that this world can really hold for you. So the very beginning of that passage I read, ownership is a dangerous concept if it is left to you. It leaves space for the metaphor. In other words, as messengers of peace, there may be instances where someone seems to own something in the world. It may seem that they own a house or a car or a computer or so on and so forth. So this leaves room in there for the metaphor. Ownership is a dangerous concept if it is left to you. So the Holy Spirit can use the concept of ownership and use while the mind still believes in it and is still working with the mind where it thinks it is, where it perceives itself, then the concept of ownership can be part of the backdrop. However, once you pull that concept of ownership out of the backdrop, so to speak, and you really believe you can own things, it is dangerous. Notice that your peace of mind is out the window when you really believe that you possess something. Whether it is a body, a thing, money, car, it doesn't matter. You will notice immediately that your peace of mind is gone because you will be defending that thing, whatever that is, that body, that car, that money, that clothing, that jewel. It can be anything. So that is the key thing because I know others have been those that have misinterpreted something like this and said, well, ownership is of the ego, therefore, rent. We have discussed this before. That does not bring you peace and happiness to think that you can just shift the form of owning something to leasing something. It should be so easy because you just lease everything. You have to question every value in your mind if you want to let go of ownership and let go of the ego, much less have a little form shift like that.