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Miracles are natural. When they don't happen, something is wrong

Beginning of Miracles 6 · UCDM

There are days that become too long. Days when you wake up with a tight heart, unable to distinguish where anxiety begins and where your identity ends. Sometimes you don't even know why; just something squeaks, a discomfort, an emptiness.

And yet, you insist on believing that it is normal. That peace is for a few enlightened women, some mystical man in a distant corner of the world; But not for you, not now, not with this life, this work, these shadows.

How long are you going to continue justifying your suffering? Are you going to continue to accept everyday warfare as if it were born with you? Don't fool yourself: that's not real. The miracle is your home state, not the exception.

Dismantling the game: what does it mean that miracles are natural?

Let's think about it coldly, if only for a moment. The sixth principle of A Course in Miracles leaves no cracks: "Miracles are natural. When they don't happen, something is wrong." Like this. No nuances. No excuses.

Do you really believe it? Or, rather: do you dare to think about it seriously? If the miracle—the peace, the unity, the feeling of being at home within you—is the natural, the ordinary, then what is all that sadness, that conflict, the weariness, those painful comparisons?

It's not real. It's a scam. A filthy movie that the mind repeats and we swallow as if it were the pure truth.

This principle dissolves the ground under the feet of the ego

• You didn't come here to accumulate knowledge to feel "more awake" or "wiser."
• You came to dust off, to dismantle the barriers that prevent you from seeing yourself as you are: light, peace, wholeness.
• Conflict, anger, guilt, that sticky, ugly boredom, are not part of your nature.
• Separation, comparison, believing yourself less (or more), are dead words in your original dictionary. Nothing to do with you.

Teaching: simple, devastating. If you lack peace, there is a hindrance. If miracles do not sprout, something—a belief, a thought, a judgment—is acting as a stopper.

The ego as a defense: how many more justifications do you need?

Get the idea:

• The ego will sell you whenever conflict is inevitable. That guilt is a kind of sacred penance.
• It will teach you, every day, to justify your anxiety ("it's normal, look at the world", "it's what it is, that's how I am...").
• And as long as you buy that speech, the miracle cannot flourish.

Do you feel anger towards another woman? Do you judge that man who never changes? Turn the script around: there, right there, there is an obvious trap. There is no miracle because you have put up the barrier. Because you insist on defending your wounded character, when it could simply be you: innocent, complete.

It's not me saying it, it's the inner voice that jumps when you stop making up your pain with excuses.

If there is no miracle, if there is no peace, something is getting in the way. It is not punishment. It is not your fault or condemnation. Just an obstacle for love to pass. Nothing else.

Separation addiction: why do you still believe that you are different?

There is a habit, a daily poison stickier than sugar: compare.

We compare ourselves all day with other people. That friend so spiritual, that man who seems so calm... "What do they have that I lack?"

And if for a moment you feel "better," you're overcome by that hidden pride, the temptation to look over your shoulder or—worse—to bow down to the "saint."

The principle is unforgiving. If we see holiness in another woman or man, we are acknowledging what we already are. If you humble yourself or exalt yourself, you have fallen into the trap:

• Holiness is not a showcase or a competition.
• There is no woman purer, no man higher than you.
• Jesus (yes, that Jesus), only transcended the illusion a little faster. But fundamentally, we are identical.
• Exalting another, despising you or despising them, reaffirms separation. It reinforces guilt, erases the miracle.

Spiritual specialness: the silent wound that no one wants to look at

Hurts. It hurts to admit it. Because the mind is looking for excuses to worship images: the saint, the guru, the leader... And in the process reaffirm how small we are, how limited we are, how far "the goal" is. Again, the lie.

For what? To keep us trapped. To prevent you from recognizing your legitimate right to peace, to purity, to full joy.

What if the only mistake—the only real disease—was this specialness, that obsessively thinking about how to "get to" the point you never got out of?

What if the miracle were the simplest and closest thing in the world, but you insist on looking the other way?

Practice: how to let go of the defense and live the miracle in everyday life

Talking about miracles sounds ethereal, but here the proposal is much more honest and, at the same time, practical. The miracle begins right where you start to get tired of blaming yourself and defending your justifications.

• Whenever you notice restlessness, sadness, judgment, mentally write down: This is not natural .
• Don't look for stories, or reasons, or culprits.
• Ask:
  • What defense am I using right now?
  • Where do I place the barrier to the miracle?
  • To whom do I compare myself, or with whom do I humble myself?

Stop, really. Pause. Recognize that guilt, conflict, and anxiety are not "the way you are." These are symptoms that you have bought into a false idea.

Ask yourself in the small scenes of the day:

• Why did that comment irritate me so much?
• Why do I feel less in front of that person?
• Why does this weigh on me so much that, perhaps, it is just a repeated thought?

The practice is to stop justifying what separates you.

If you catch yourself judging, if you are assailed by reverence for that mystical woman, or that man so prepared, ask the Holy Spirit for help—as you conceive that inner voice—to remember that there is only equality.

The miracle is to stop insisting on making yourself different, special, superior or inferior.

Habit: Integrating Equality as a State of Nature, Not as a Theory

Don't fool yourself. Equality speeches look great in books, but they fall apart as soon as you meet someone who seems to have something that you lack.

Peace, equality, are not thought about, they are lived. Do you want to practice it for real?

Do the exercise

• Recognize unity every time you greet, talk, look at someone.
• Let go of specialism: that mania of thinking that certain people are superior or purer.
• Remember: your right to peace and joy is intact. It's your natural state.

Notice, please

• Every time you compare yourself, you suffer, because you reinforce the separation.
• Every time you see holiness in another and humble yourself, you lose sight of your light.
• And every time you fall in love with equality—no matter how brief that jolt lasts—fear, guilt, and conflict dissolve even for an instant.

The signs: how do you know if you're allowing the miracle?

Do not look for it outside, it is not in the achievements, nor in the number of hours of meditation, nor in the spiritual titles.

It is noticeable because:

• Peace does not need reasons, it springs on its own.
• Bliss is the new custom; bitterness becomes rare.
• You stop reacting with anger, with fear, with the need to be right.
• Trials last less, they don't catch you the same.
• You begin to feel other women, other men, as sisters and brothers. Without reverence or contempt. No difference.

Your world does not change on the outside; you do change. And that is already a miracle.

Stumbling blocks: obstacles and their everyday forms

The mind is going to resist. You're going to relapse. You're going to judge again. You're going to worship figures and despise yourself. Don't run away from that. Accept your humanity, without shields. But don't settle.

Do you recognize which traps you fall into most easily?

• Judging another person as "holier."
• Ridicule your own steps.
• Feeling reverence until you are out of sight.
• Postponing peace because "you still have a long way to go."

Solution? Don't fight. Just look. Understand that each judgment only reinforces the illusion of being separate, separate. Ask for help—honestly—to see equality, even if your mind resists.

Awakening is not a race, it is a memory that opens up little by little.

The Quietest Teaching: Living by Example, Not from the Pulpit

A student becomes a teacher when he stops talking about Jesus, repeating well-known phrases, and begins to serve as an example.

There is no sermon, there is no preaching, there is honest living. Simple life. A life in which equality and miracles become the most commonplace.

The true teaching is this: show with your life that the ego no longer has so much power, that love sneaks in even on the ugliest days.

The miracle is not to be told, it is to be it. Thus, just like you, every woman and every man can awaken.

The courage to look straight ahead: you don't have to resign yourself to unhappiness anymore

Did you know that it is possible to continue choosing conflict simply out of habit?

It is not about "earning" anything, nor about accumulating spiritual merits. Just to let equality – the miracle, the peace – be your usual scenario again.

Are you tired, tired, of balancing guilt and reproach? Isn't it exhausting to have to justify your right to happiness? That's also a choice. Hard to see, but pure freedom when you discover it.

The Importance of Returning to Your Natural State: The Miracle as Ordinary Life

You don't need to become someone different, or be free of mistakes. You don't have to be perfect or enlightened. It is enough to undo what was never real.

The practice is honest, crude, sometimes uncomfortable. But profoundly liberating:

• Look at your thoughts without fear.
• Point out the defenses that separate you, one by one.
• Let go of judgment, reverence, competition.
• Remember that peace is not a privilege, it is your condition of birth.

You don't need to beg for a miracle. Just stop closing the door on him. The miracle wants to enter. The separation is just the lock, a joke you can choose to stop telling.

And now, what?

Don't look for sweet promises. You don't have to. The miracle is as natural as breathing, as crying, as loving.

Living from there – letting go of the script of the ego, looking everyone in the face knowing that they are you – is not easy, but it is possible. At times, in pieces, while life returns you to that origin where the miracle is not news. It's customary.

Do you dare to try? To stop justifying conflict and suffering? To look at the natural as your only heritage?

Perhaps the miracle is not far away. You don't have to understand it, or achieve it. Letting go of the false is more than enough.

When you feel separation return—when guilt whispers and judgment knocks on the door—remember, just for today, just for a while:

The miracle is natural. Nothing and no one can stop you from living it, except a defense that makes no sense.

And then, without making it special, it continues. Each step of honesty, each small courage, sharpens the ear to listen to your true music.

There is no one more worthy of a miracle than you. There is no easier miracle than the one that ceases to seem like a miracle, because it is simply—finally—natural.

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