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A Course In Miracles

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Miracles are natural. When they do not occur, something has gone wrong.

Miracles are thoughts.

Miracles are teaching devices.

Every day should be devoted to miracles.

Miracles make minds one in God.

Miracles arise from a mind that is ready for them.

The miracles does nothing. All it does is undo ... cancels out the interference... It does not add but but merely takes away. And what it takes away is long since gone, but ... kept in memory ... This world was over long ago ... The miracle but shows the past is gone [but exists only as] illusions of its presence. Editor's note: see the section on the “Surrender and Acceptance” page, “fighting yesterday’s battles from the comfort of your bedroom.”

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

Miracles rearrange perception and place all levels in true perspective.

... the miracle aims at restoring the awareness of reality

... the miracle ... puts you in communion with your self and God

Miracles enable you to heal the [spiritually] sick and raise the [spiritually] dead.

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

Miracles are a way of earning release from fear.

Miracles ... dispel illusions about yourself and perceive the light in you... [will free] you from your nightmares [of fear, guilt, and scarcity].

By releasing your mind from the imprisonment of your illusions, they [miracles] restore sanity.

Miracles restore the mind to its fullness.

... [the miracle's] purpose is to restore him to his right mind.

Miracles are examples of right thinking, aligning your perception with truth as God created it.

A miracle is a correction introduced into false thinking by me [Jesus]. It acts as a catalyst, breaking up erroneous perception and reorganizing it properly. This places you under the Atonement principle, where perception is healed.

The miracle acknowledges everyone as your brother [or sister] and mine.

[Miracles release] you from your false sense of isolation, deprivation, and lack.

The miracle ... is a device for perception correction.

Editor’s note: It becomes clear that the concept of “miracle” has nothing to do with its forerunners of old, the water into wine and even healing leprosy. All of those had their place at the time, but the highest expression of “miracle” is that which gets at the root-source of humankind’s misery, the ego-led insanity of every unenlightened person. As such, “miracles” are flashes of insight which begin to break up the ego’s stronghold, begin to help us escape from the egoic nightmare of separation and neediness. Jesus says in the Course that we, too, as ancillary helpers to the Guides, will perform miracles, in that, as we mature, we will be able to encourage the “sick” and the “dead” to rediscover their inner life in God.