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| When [[material]] [[Artifacts|objects]] are given as gifts, in many [[cultures]] they are [[traditionally]] packaged in some [[manner]]. For example, in Western culture, gifts are often wrapped in wrapping paper and accompanied by a gift note which may note the occasion, the recipient's name, and the giver's name. In Chinese culture, red wrapping connotes luck. | | When [[material]] [[Artifacts|objects]] are given as gifts, in many [[cultures]] they are [[traditionally]] packaged in some [[manner]]. For example, in Western culture, gifts are often wrapped in wrapping paper and accompanied by a gift note which may note the occasion, the recipient's name, and the giver's name. In Chinese culture, red wrapping connotes luck. |
| + | <center>For lessons on the related [[topic]] of '''''Giving''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Giving '''''this link'''''].</center> |
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| ==See also== | | ==See also== |
| *'''''[[Spiritual Gifts]]''''' | | *'''''[[Spiritual Gifts]]''''' |
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− | * Marcel Mauss and W.D. Halls, Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies, W. W. Norton, 2000, trade paperback, ISBN 0-393-32043-X
| + | No one can give if he is |
− | * Lewis Hyde: The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property, 1983 (ISBN 0-394-71519-5), especially part I, "A Theory of Gifts", part of which was originally published as "The Gift Must Always Move" in Co-Evolution Quarterly No. 35, Fall 1982.
| + | concerned with the result of giving. That is a [[limitation]] on the giving itself, |
− | * Jean-Luc Marion translated by Jeffrey L. Kosky, "Being Given: Toward a Phenomenology of Giveness", Stanford University Press, 2002 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 0-8047-3410-0.
| + | and neither the giver nor the [[receiver]] would have the gift. [[Trust]] is an |
| + | essential part of giving; in [[fact]], it is the part that makes [[sharing]] possible, the |
| + | part that guarantees the giver will not lose, but only gain. Who gives a gift |
| + | and then remains with it, to be sure it is used as the giver deems |
| + | appropriate? Such is not giving but [[imprisoning]]. - [[ACIM Manual for Teachers - Section 6|ACIM Manual for Teachers]] |
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| [[Category: General Reference]] | | [[Category: General Reference]] |