What is a miracle?
I wanted to say: I believe that art is a waking dream. And that imagination can bridge the gulf between dreams and reality and allow us to understand the real in new ways by seeing it through the lens of the unreal. No, I don’t believe in miracles, but, yes, my books do, and, to use Whitman’s formulation, do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself. I don’t believe in miracles, but my survival is miraculous. Okay, then. So be it.
Rushdie, Salman. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder (p. 63). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Some people think that a miracle is walking on water, multiplying the loaves and fishes, raising someone from the dead, healing the blind, and doing other supernatural magic tricks.
In A Course In Miracles a miracle is a shift in perception from the world of the ego to the world of the Spirit. Unlike the definition of “miracle” in colloquial language, “miracle” in A Course In Miracles is the awareness arising in consciousness of the Truth of the non dual Oneness of all creation. When the monk asks the hot dog vendor to “make me one with everything” the monk is asking not just for a hot dog but spiritually for a miracle.
Rushdie writes that he doesn’t believe in the miracles usually associated with the world of the ego, but in his books, which he creates with his imagination, he perceives miracles in the aesthetic world of the art of literature and poetry.
Remember that the meaning of Love can not be taught but the blocks to the awareness of Love which is our natural inheritance can be removed usually one by one. The opposite of Love is fear so what are your deepest fears and how can they be minimized if not eliminated?
How does Rushdie minimize his fears and try to eliminate them in his writing? If he, or any writer, can accomplish this, the elimination of fear, in their writing, they have worked a miracle.
Miracles are there for our realization all the time. Becoming aware of one’s consciousness, itself, is miraculous isn’t it?