A Course in Miracles: The 50 Miracle Principles

The 50 Miracle Principles

Principle 1 - There is no order of difficulty in miracles. One is not harder or bigger than another.

Principle 2 - Miracles as such do not matter. The only thing that matters is their Source.

Principle 3 - Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.

Principle 4 - All miracles mean life, and God is the Giver of life. His Voice will direct you very specifically.

Principle 5 - Miracles are habits and should be involuntary.

Principle 6 - Miracles are natural. When they do not occur something has gone wrong.

Principle 7 - Miracles are everyone's right, but purification is necessary first.

Principle 8 - Miracles are healing because they supply a lack.

Principle 9 - Miracles are a kind of exchange.

Principle 10 - The use of miracles as spectacles to induce belief is a misunderstanding of their purpose.

Principle 11 - Prayer is the medium of miracles.

Principle 12 - Miracles are thoughts.

Principle 13 - Miracles are both beginnings and endings - they alter the temporal order.

Principle 14 - Miracles bear witness to truth.

Principle 15 - Each day should be devoted to miracles.

Principle 16 - Miracles are teaching devices for demonstrating it is as blessed to give as to receive.

Principle 17 - Miracles transcend the body.

Principle 18 - A miracle is a service. It is the maximal service you can render to another.

Principle 19 - Miracles make minds one in God.

Principle 20 - Miracles reawaken the awareness that the spirit, not the body, is the altar of truth.

Principle 21 - Miracles are natural signs of forgiveness. Through miracles you accept God's forgiveness by extending it to others.

Principle 22 - Miracles are associated with fear only because of the belief that darkness can hide.

Principle 23 - Miracles rearrange perception and place all levels in true perspective.

Principle 24 - Miracles enable you to heal the sick and raise the dead because you made sickness and death.

Principle 25 - Miracles are part of an interlocking chain of forgiveness which, when completed, is the Atonement.

Principle 26 - Miracles represent freedom from fear. Atoning means undoing - undoing fear is an essential part of the miracle.

Principle 27 - A miracle is a universal blessing from God through me to all my brothers.

Principle 28 - Miracles are a way of earning release from fear.

Principle 29 - Miracles praise God through you.

Principle 30 - By recognizing spirit, miracles adjust the levels of perception and show them in proper alignment.

Principle 31 - Miracles should inspire gratitude, not awe.

Principle 32 - All miracles are inspired, and are actually intercessions. They intercede for your holiness.

Principle 33 - Miracles honor you because you are lovable.

Principle 34 - Miracles restore the mind to its fullness.

Principle 35 - Miracles are expressions of love, but they may not always have observable effects.

Principle 36 - Miracles are examples of right thinking.

Principle 37 - A miracle is a correction introduced into false thinking.

Principle 38 - The Holy Spirit is the mechanism of miracles.

Principle 39 - The miracle dissolves error because the Holy Spirit identifies error as false or unreal.

Principle 40 - The miracle acknowledges everyone as your brother and mine.

Principle 41 - Wholeness is the perceptual content of miracles.

Principle 42 - A major contribution of miracles is their strength in releasing you from your false sense of isolation .

Principle 43 - Miracles arise from a miraculous state of mind, or a state of miracle-readiness.

Principle 44 - The miracle is an expression of an inner awareness and acceptance.

Principle 45 - A miracle is never lost. It may touch many people you have not even met.

Principle 46 - The Holy Spirit is the highest communication medium.

Principle 47 - The miracle is a learning device that lessens the need for time.

Principle 48 - The miracle is the only device at your immediate disposal for controlling time.

Principle 49 - The miracle makes no distinction among degrees of misperception.

Principle 50 - The miracle compares what you have made with creation, accepting what is in accord with it as true.