Miracles and the Recognition of Our Equality and Oneness

Learning to perceive our commonality and our truth

Early in the Text of A Course in Miracles, we are provided with a short and powerful statement that harkens to the fundamental and ultimate truth about ourselves and each other.

Miracle principle #40 asserts,

The miracle acknowledges everyone as your brother and mine. It is a way of perceiving the universal mark of God.

The miracle occurs when we redirect our hearts, minds, and bodies away from fear and shift into love. We embody the principles of love for self and others and allow this orientation to serve as our moral compass.

When we choose the miracle in our relationships with others, we acknowledge our spiritual connectedness. The Course employs the term “brother” as a demarcator that includes all (irrespective of gender or any other form of earthly identification).

From the Course perspective, we are all brothers. No one is exempt or excluded. No matter what one has done or said, it cannot diminish or destroy one’s spiritual identity as a child of God.

In fact, the Course frames this endless and unchanging identification as our being, the Son of God. Our underlying truth beyond the body, time, and space is that we are all part of the extension of God (i.e., the Son of God).

Therefore, the notion of separation is an illusion that keeps us bound to the world as we have come to perceive it. In fact, it could be postulated that everything and anything that serves to divide and separate functions as a tool to reinforce this illusion.

Time upholds the illusion of some of us being here now and others having lived in the past. Space upholds the illusion of some of us being here and others on the other side of the world. Gender, race, age, language, culture, and all other social, cultural, or biological identities function similarly. They are all apparatuses of separation.

We perceive the “universal mark of God” with the miracle. The miracle is how we perceive and ultimately come to know our oneness.

The miracle does not discriminate. Some are not more worthy of it than others, and some do not have greater access to miracles. Some are not inherently more inclined toward the miracle than others.

The miracle is always and ever there, ready for the taking. It is ever-present in the present. It can be denied and covered over, but it can never be diminished.

An unrealized miracle today is an opportunity for a miracle tomorrow.

Miracle principle #40 draws our attention to the inclusivity of the miracle.

When we claim the miracle in our relationships with each other, we recognize the divine in each other; we realize that at the core of our spiritual being, we are one with each other and with God.

The universal mark of God cannot be evaded. The miracle is a remembering of our true identity within the self and in one another.

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