Miracle Mantra ACIM Lesson 187: I bless the world because I bless myself.

Miracle Mantras — 365 daily mantras inspired by A Course in Miracles Workbook. 0:00 Intro 1:39 Today’s lesson 8:58 Miracle Mantra 12:18 Commentary Welcome to Miracle Mantras, a daily video series designed to help you remember each lesson from the workbook section of A Course in Miracles. In these videos, I transform each daily lesson into a mantra or small song to help you focus your mind and recall the lesson throughout your day. My intention is for you to use these mantras (or receive inspiration to create your own) to remember the lessons, especially when challenges arise that disturb your peace of mind. I am so honored that you have decided to join me. My life has been completely transformed by practicing the lessons from A Course in Miracles Workbook and my hope is that this practice will bring you deep peace, joy and an ever expanding capacity to LOVE. For more information and resources for A Course in Miracles: https://www.kiranjotkaurmusic.com/aci... To join our study group please visit my website: https://www.kiranjotkaurmusic.com/sub... Thank you for supporting this series by subscribing to my channel and offering a donation here: https://kiranjotkaurmusic.com/tip-jar... Infinite gratitude to the Foundation for Inner Peace, the original publishers of A Course in Miracles, for their beautiful web edition of the complete volume and for making these teachings available around the world. Please check out their resources, webinars and more here: https://acim.org/ ++++++++++++++++++++++ Lesson 187 - I bless the world because I bless myself. 1. No one can give unless he has. ²In fact, giving is proof of having. ³We have made this point before. ⁴What seems to make it hard to credit is not this. ⁵No one can doubt that you must first possess what you would give. ⁶It is the second phase on which the world and true perception differ. ⁷Having had and given, then the world asserts that you have lost what you possessed. ⁸The truth maintains that giving will increase what you possess. 2. How is this possible? ²For it is sure that if you give a finite thing away, your body’s eyes will not perceive it yours. ³Yet we have learned that things but represent the thoughts that make them. ⁴And you do not lack for proof that when you give ideas away, you strengthen them in your own mind. ⁵Perhaps the form in which the thought seems to appear is changed in giving. ⁶Yet it must return to him who gives. ⁷Nor can the form it takes be less acceptable. ⁸It must be more. 3. Ideas must first belong to you, before you give them. ²If you are to save the world, you first accept salvation for yourself. ³But you will not believe that this is done until you see the miracles it brings to everyone you look upon. ⁴Herein is the idea of giving clarified and given meaning. ⁵Now you can perceive that by your giving is your store increased. 4. Protect all things you value by the act of giving them away, and you are sure that you will never lose them. ²What you thought you did not have is thereby proven yours. ³Yet value not its form. ⁴For this will change and grow unrecognizable in time, however much you try to keep it safe. ⁵No form endures. ⁶It is the thought behind the form of things that lives unchangeable. 5. Give gladly. ²You can only gain thereby. ³The thought remains, and grows in strength as it is reinforced by giving. ⁴Thoughts extend as they are shared, for they can not be lost. ⁵There is no giver and receiver in the sense the world conceives of them. ⁶There is a giver who retains; another who will give as well. ⁷And both must gain in this exchange, for each will have the thought in form most helpful to him. ⁸What he seems to lose is always something he will value less than what will surely be returned to him. 6. Never forget you give but to yourself. ²Who understands what giving means must laugh at the idea of sacrifice. ³Nor can he fail to recognize the many forms which sacrifice may take. ⁴He laughs as well at pain and loss, at sickness and at grief, at poverty, starvation and at death. ⁵He recognizes sacrifice remains the one idea that stands behind them all, and in his gentle laughter are they healed. 7. Illusion recognized must disappear. ²Accept not suffering, and you remove the thought of suffering. ³Your blessing lies on everyone who suffers, when you choose to see all suffering as what it is. ⁴The thought of sacrifice gives rise to all the forms that suffering appears to take. ⁵And sacrifice is an idea so mad that sanity dismisses it at once... Read the full lesson here: (https://acim.org/acim/en/s/595 | W-187) A Course in Miracles complete web edition is available at Foundation For Inner Peace :https://acim.org/acim/en #miraclemantras #acourseinmiracles #acimworkbook