Miracles —in themselves— do not matter · Practice and Test

Miracles – in and of themselves – do not matter. The only thing that matters is your Source, which is beyond all possible evaluation.

Beginning of the Miracle 2 · UCDM

The endless nights, when the mind churns like a cornered animal, when you don't know if you'd sell your soul for a pinch of relief. It doesn't matter if it happens to you once a year or every Friday: you know what I'm talking about.

You have sought miracles. You have begged for them, imagined them, cried out or silently asked for them.
May your mother heal, may your partner return, may this fear disappear, may guilt no longer haunt you. But miracles, no matter how much you meditate, no matter how much you pray, do not always come as you would like. And you know it.

There is no miracle that, in form, lasts forever. There is no external relief that does not end up becoming something else: another search, another request, another price to pay.

And if you dare to look behind the curtain – just for a second, even if you get dizzy – you realize that it's all about something else. Not to change the film, but to remember that the projector is somewhere else.

Principle 2: Miracles don't matter—do you dare to let go?

"Miracles — in and of themselves — don't matter. The only thing that matters is its Source, which is beyond all possible evaluation."

Don't look for magic where there are only mirrors. Stop begging for peace in bodies, stories, gestures, signs.

What A Course in Miracles is saying here is clear: miracles are not your salvation. They are not the end.

They serve —nothing more and nothing less— to remind you of who you are, to mislead the ego enough to be able to look at the Source. Nothing else.

Miracles end, the Source does not.

The ego — yours, mine — finds it offensive. He wants wonders, he wants to be saved from his own fear, he wants tangible results. But peace, when it comes, does not respond to the ego: it responds to the call of a depth that has no words or context.

The miracle points you to the door, it is not the House. The House is there where you look and all judgment disappears. See? To stop idealizing miracles is to take the most honest leap you can make on this path.

What does this principle ask you to change? Let go of the circus of ego and return home

Forget stories of saints and wonders. The miracle that matters springs up within, when you stop extolling the extraordinary and allow yourself to look at where everything is born: the mind, your mind, which after all continues to dream of a separation that never happened.

What change does this principle ask for in your mind?

• Release the glorification of the external miracle.
  Miracles have never been acts of spiritual pyrotechnics; they are tiny, intimate, imperceptible changes of perception.
• It recognizes that all value resides in the Source, not in the phenomenon.
  It doesn't matter if you heal a leg or transform a relationship; What counts is the return to the truth, the rest in the stillness that has no name or image.

Remember this every time your wound bleeds:

• The miracle is an excuse, a crack, a permission to let go of the illusions fabricated by fear.
• In Heaven, miracles are not even necessary; No one is separated, no one asks for help, no one needs to be "corrected."
• If miracles matter, it is because the mind cannot sustain the pain of separation and needs clues to return home.

That's all.

The miracle matters only as a reminder, only insofar as it points out what is not real and gently orients you to what never ceased to be so.

The ego and its tricks: what illusions are unmasked by practicing this principle?

The layers that we are all capable of clinging to never cease to amaze: theories, magic, stories accumulated by the pure fear of looking at the void without filters.

This principle hits the nail on the head: it dismantles three lethal beliefs:

1. The miracle as an exclusive show

The ego whispers to you that the miracle is special, reserved for a few, destined for chosen ones who have fulfilled the conditions. Lie. The miracle does not distinguish, it is correction, it is a crack in perception, and that is enough.

2. Belief in the reality of separation

The whole course is an invitation—sometimes a slap—to stop believing in the myth of sin, guilt, sacrifice, fear. The miracle undoes that: it laughs at the tragedy. Remember that nothing—absolutely nothing—can alter Source.

The compulsion to measure, judge, evaluate

God does not judge. It does not know doing, only Being. Every time you insist on evaluating what is happening, you get lost again in the labyrinth of the ego. The miracle invites you to stop playing at being a judge:

• Is this right for me?
• Is this bad?
• Is this fair?

But Love does not compare, it does not measure, it does not put labels.

Can you afford to leave a day, half a day, an hour without judging? That's where the real practice begins.

Will there really be peace for you? Habits and attitudes that are installed when you are no longer looking for miracles, but origin

There is something brutally tender about those who dare to abandon the hope of external miracles. It is surrender, yes, but not in the face of misfortune but in the face of the peace that has waited all its life to be recognized.

The attitudes and habits recommended by the course are not glamorous, but they change lives:

• Humility before Source:
  You don't have to be anyone special to be worthy, worthy. The source does not distinguish, neither should you. Give thanks, even if you don't know why.
• Detachment from the result:
  Stop looking for miracles to change something outside. What is transformed is perception, not matter.
• Practice surrender:
  Say, with your gut and mind, "I don't know what this means, guide me." Repeat if necessary, "Every emotional burden is a gift if I leave it in the hands of the Spirit."
• Recognition of the illusion:
  When you feel guilt, anxiety, pain again, test it in your conscience: is this real, or just the umpteenth scenery of separation? Make the phrase "This doesn't matter. Only the Source matters." your mantra, your comfort, your burning bush.
• Reflect—and rest—in the Source:
  It is not about praying or disciplining yourself. Just sow little moments where you remember – without words – that you are creation, that the only real thing is in what cannot be lost.

If you think it's too much, bring it down to the humble. One minute here, one minute there. Small things are worth a thousand promises.

Setting an example from love: when there is nothing left to prove

The course is ruthlessly honest—it doesn't matter how much you know, it matters how much you practice. Ask for facts, not speeches.

When you apply this principle, when you stop idolizing miracles and surrender to Source, something happens that cannot be faked:

• Example becomes your only authentic teaching.
• You no longer need to convince anyone, or justify yourself, or give master classes.
• The peace you transmit (or that crack through which love sneaks in) is enough to remind the world that conflict was just theater.

This is not theory. People feel it, smell it, notice it. Those who are at peace do not compete, do not react, do not defend themselves. Those who are at peace teach to love by pure vibration, not with words.

If you see yourself in an argument, an anger, an attack, and you remember "this doesn't matter", everything changes:

• You respond calmly even if another part of you wants to bark.
• You know the battle is fake.
• There are times when even arguments seem unreal, they dissolve into an air of family (or emptiness).

And there you teach—unintentionally. You teach that the separation never happened.

How do you know that your mind is changing? Honest (and sometimes awkward) signs

Peace is not linear. There are relapses, resistance, days when you would scream, others when you would dance. But practice does its job, even if you can't measure it.

The clearest signs that the miracle (inner correction) is doing its job are usually humble:

• Less judgment, less evaluation.
  The pulse to evaluate is slackening. It matters less who wins, who loses, who dresses as a saint or a devil.
• More search for Source, less dependence on the ego.
  Attention: you begin to notice that your first reaction is to seek refuge inside, not outside.
• Growing emotional neutrality:
  Some things that used to ruin your day, now slip. It's not coldness, it's detachment. You no longer fight against the inevitable.
• An inner peace that appears out of nowhere (and without warning).
  Although it lasts a short time sometimes, you know it's real because it doesn't depend on anything. Not about the weather, not about money, not about what they say about you.

Don't look for perfection. Look for honesty. Whenever you catch yourself "softening" your judgment or picking up your mind before going to war, celebrate it.

The Monster Under the Bed: Resistance, Fear, and the Old Attachment to Suffering

I'll tell you bluntly: the ego is not going to give you its throne. Not yours, not mine. That of letting go of judgment, stopping evaluating, exchanging miracle for inner silence... It sounds painful to the mind (the ego) that has made control of a religion.

These obstacles are not your fault or mine. They just appear, and when they appear: look at them and don't believe them. These are symptoms that the change is serious.

• The obsession with seeing tangible "results":
  If your peace depends on the miracle you see, you have forgotten the Source. Remember: the only evidence of the miracle is within, never without.
• The fear of not judging:
  You still think you're safe as long as you're watching everything. Nothing could be more false. Judgment does not protect, it only separates. When you dare to lay bare that fear, peace finds a crack.
• The distraction trap:
  Not all fires are urgent. "This doesn't matter. Only the Source matters." Repeat. Thousands of times, if necessary.

Honesty is the only discipline that the course demands. Don't fool yourself, don't fight to change. Just observe. Surrender ends up overcoming the ego not with struggle.

The miracle, in the end, only serves to look beyond

This is the core: The miracle does not change reality. It helps you remember that you have always been: one with Source.

Make practice a modest art. No one expects perfect holiness from you. Understand that your task is not special or different: only to embrace every day the invitation – insistent, sometimes clumsy – to let go of what was never real.

• The problem is never the problem, it is the forgetting of the truth.
• The miracle is never the goal, it is only the transition to the only reality that deserves the name.
• When you consent to let the miracle dissolve your desire to judge, compete, suffer... Source will speak through you.

That is awakening.

Peace does not need witnesses: just return again and again

Don't believe me, don't believe the book. Believe yourself when peace (inexplicably) appears. Don't celebrate the miracle itself, celebrate Source.

If you still feel like fighting, fight. If you need to cry, cry. But as you do so, repeat: None of this makes sense. Only the Source matters.

That's where the real miracle begins: that of a woman, a man, who stop asking the world for what they already have inside.

And when you feel that longing—that itchy throat, that demand for comfort—go back to the beginning. No one can take away who you are. Everything else is history.

There is no other more urgent lesson

Choose to watch. Choose to acknowledge, for a moment, that everything that happens to you is illusory—and that Source never changes. As long as you remember it, it doesn't matter if you fall. You're on the way back.

And who knows, maybe the next beginning will bring another crack, another little death for the ego, another space where the Light can sneak in.

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