A Course in Miracles uses littleness and grandiosity to show alternate ways that the ego seeks to identify you. It is like the wave thinking it is separate from the ocean; at one moment it is aware of the immensity of the ocean and its own "littleness", and at another, it is drunk with the idea of being equal to the ocean.
A Course in Miracles reminds us that, as an extension of God, our true identity is one of magnitude and grandeur.
Be
not content with littleness. ... Littleness is the offering you give
yourself. You offer this in place of magnitude, and you accept it.
... When you strive for anything in this world in the belief that it
will bring you peace, you are belittling yourself and blinding
yourself to glory. Littleness and glory are the choices open to your
striving and your vigilance. You will always choose one at the
expense of the other.Yet
what you do not realize, each time you choose, is that your choice is
your evaluation of yourself. Choose littleness and you will not have
peace, for you will have judged yourself unworthy of it. ... there is
no form of littleness that can ever content you. For you will be
content only in magnitude, which is your home. T-15.III.1:1,3,4,6-8/2:1,2,4,6.The ego depends solely on your willingness to tolerate it. If you are willing to look upon your grandeur you cannot despair, and therefore you cannot want the ego. Your grandeur is God's answer to the ego, because it is true. Littleness and grandeur cannot coexist, nor is it possible for them to alternate. Littleness and grandiosity can and must alternate, since both are untrue and are therefore on the same level.
Truth and littleness are denials of each other because grandeur is truth. T-9.VIII.5:1-5/6:1.
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